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Tell me about it Isaac Send a noteboard - 27/08/2013 08:04:46 AM

View original postSure, my birth certificate claims that I am only 32, but I am old. How do I know this? Because people my age are looking at the apparently "disgusting" Miley Cyrus video and using it to disparage the music of "the youth."

33 next month, hasn't been that long since I had explained to me that Hanna Montana and Miley Cyrus were, in fact, the same people. By my eldest niece, who starts college in a week or so.


View original postGood lord, I'd hoped we were at least eight years away from this, but apparently not.

I think it has less to do with numerical age as when most of your friends have children in grade school and you can actively see first hand how good/bad parents and citizens in general people really are.


View original postFull disclosure, I haven't watched the video, being well assured that it would be a waste of my time and a blow to my respect for humanity. I'm sure it was in poor taste, don't get me wrong. For a VMA performance to be called "disgusting" must have been some achievement.

I just watched some clips, 'disgusting' is actually pretty apt though I'd have gone with embarrassing. Also I found out about a new word called 'twerking' which is apparently not that new.


View original postBut seriously... who the hell am I to use this to attack anybody? Britney Spears is one year older than I am. Thank goodness SHE never tried to use sexuality to declare her "little girl" act was over in favor of something more "mature." So I can't use Miley to discount "the youth" anymore than Britney somehow undermines the music of my generation.

It does seem like people think the boy band and innocent girl turned slutty thing was newly invented this year every year and they've always 'gone too far this time' but I don't think it is wrong for us to criticize this stuff, so long as it isn't just griping of 'back in my day...' or 'kids these days have no..."


View original postTry telling that to my friends, though. This is when you know you are old. Not when you watch the antics of younger people and shake your head, but when you do it in a way that implies that your own generation had no such antics.

True, especially considering being a member of our generation means having still had less than half of one's total life as an adult.

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Oh goody, I am officially old. Dannymac - 27/08/2013 06:28:14 AM 745 Views
Welcome to the Dark Side Artsapat - 27/08/2013 07:28:16 AM 757 Views
Tell me about it Isaac - 27/08/2013 08:04:46 AM 694 Views
I know, right? When I first heard the word "twerking" I thought it'd be something new beetnemesis - 27/08/2013 03:45:18 PM 737 Views
I must be strangely young then Larry - 27/08/2013 08:09:57 AM 620 Views
A music video-oriented cable station would be a waste, they don't make good videos anymore HyogaRott - 27/08/2013 01:20:45 PM 528 Views
Glad to hear I am young then ironclad - 27/08/2013 08:32:21 AM 595 Views
No, just look at your passport. jh - 27/08/2013 06:37:35 PM 561 Views
Britney Spears has had a "little girl" act? One that wasn't blatantly sexual? Legolas - 27/08/2013 08:58:58 PM 838 Views
*laughs* Jeordam - 27/08/2013 09:02:41 PM 527 Views
That list should probably be expanded a bit... could be fun. jh - 27/08/2013 09:13:58 PM 550 Views
LOL ironclad - 28/08/2013 08:15:53 AM 566 Views
one of my favorite jokes from a comedian whose name has been long lost to my "old" memory moondog - 27/08/2013 11:22:49 PM 514 Views
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