So as some of you may know, my friend Paul is much younger than I am, but it generally doesn’t feel like that when we hang out. I mean, I am still fifteen in a lot of ways. However, last night he made me feel really old during the American Idol finale. It started out not too badly:
PAM: Bryan Adams medley! Nice, they’re going to unearth him. “It was the summer of ’69….” Ooh, Heaven! Aww. And…here he is. Wow, he looks pretty much the same.
PAUL: Did he always have those teeth like that?
PAM: Yeah, he actually looked just like this, except with a little longer hair.
PAUL: Was this one of his songs?
PAM: No, this must be something new. I hope they break out some Cuts Like a Knife. Oooh!
PAUL: What? What is this?
PAM: Somebody! NICE! You wouldn’t know this one, it was on his album that came out in ‘84 or ’85…a year before you were born. I still have the LP downstairs.
PAUL: Creepy.
PAM: His Greatest Hits album is all kinds of awesome. I have that one on CD, at least.
PAUL: Mmm hmm.
So all of that wasn’t too bad – I figured Paul wouldn’t know some of those things. I think it was the realization that I was buying music with my allowance money before Paul was even born that was a little weird. But then – OH. Oh, then:
PAM: Is this Faith? Ooh, George Michael is going to be there! Freedom ‘90! Nice!
PAUL: This is a good one.
PAM: This ranks up there with Too Funky as some of my favorite George Michael songs. Oh man, I hope they get Michael Johns and Jason Castro to sing about wanting my sex.
PAUL: What?
PAM: I Want Your Sex, his song.
PAUL: I don’t know that.
PAM: George Michael’s I Want Your Sex - that was one of his biggest songs!
PAUL: I’ve never heard of it.
PAM: (starts weeping)
Y’all – I am OLD.
But seriously, who doesn’t know that song???!!!
PAM: Bryan Adams medley! Nice, they’re going to unearth him. “It was the summer of ’69….” Ooh, Heaven! Aww. And…here he is. Wow, he looks pretty much the same.
PAUL: Did he always have those teeth like that?
PAM: Yeah, he actually looked just like this, except with a little longer hair.
PAUL: Was this one of his songs?
PAM: No, this must be something new. I hope they break out some Cuts Like a Knife. Oooh!
PAUL: What? What is this?
PAM: Somebody! NICE! You wouldn’t know this one, it was on his album that came out in ‘84 or ’85…a year before you were born. I still have the LP downstairs.
PAUL: Creepy.
PAM: His Greatest Hits album is all kinds of awesome. I have that one on CD, at least.
PAUL: Mmm hmm.
So all of that wasn’t too bad – I figured Paul wouldn’t know some of those things. I think it was the realization that I was buying music with my allowance money before Paul was even born that was a little weird. But then – OH. Oh, then:
PAM: Is this Faith? Ooh, George Michael is going to be there! Freedom ‘90! Nice!
PAUL: This is a good one.
PAM: This ranks up there with Too Funky as some of my favorite George Michael songs. Oh man, I hope they get Michael Johns and Jason Castro to sing about wanting my sex.
PAUL: What?
PAM: I Want Your Sex, his song.
PAUL: I don’t know that.
PAM: George Michael’s I Want Your Sex - that was one of his biggest songs!
PAUL: I’ve never heard of it.
PAM: (starts weeping)
Y’all – I am OLD.
But seriously, who doesn’t know that song???!!!
