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When They Reminisce Over You


May 22, 2008 | Tags: none

I may not have grey hair yet, but man, I feel old these days. My birthday was last week, so I’m finally out of the “teen” category. I get random muscle cramps and things that shouldn’t be happening to a 20-year-old (nevermind the fact that I’m in serious need of a workout). I don’t understand the fads that the youngins fall for these days. I just started a crucial 9 to 5 job in the most stereotypical of office environments. Oh, and I watch TV.

Wait…what? What does TV have to do with it, you say?

For the first time in about two years (no exaggeration) I came across 106 and Park on BET this evening. I got distracted by some food and thus didn’t have a free hand to keep changing the channel (I sound like such a fat ass right now). So fuck it (c) Bill O’Reilly*, I watched it for ten minutes or so. They proceeded to play the throwback joint of the day (flashback, old school joint, whatever they’re calling it)…and tell me why they played Ciara’s “1, 2, Step”. Is it just me, or does it feel like that joint just came out last week!?

After sitting there for a while feeling a little dumbfounded and borderline geriatric, I realized that if you’re currently a freshman in high school, that song probably does feel ancient to you. “Old” is one of those words that involves a large amount of relativity. Albums don’t come packaged with an expiration date on them like a gallon of milk would. There’s no explicit date that music becomes officially “old”, or goes bad, or reaches its expiration date. You can pinpoint the day an album is released or the day it leaks. You can even put a pretty concrete timeframe on when the “golden era” of hip hop began and ended. But how do you know when a song goes from just being a regular song, to being an “old school” joint?

Maybe it’s just one of those questions that comes to me that I tend to overthink, but it reminds me a lot of that “how does an album reach classic status” debate. It’s hard as hell to answer. To some of you reading this, music released in the mid-90’s may feel old. To others, music from the late 80’s may constitute your catalog of old school music.

Dammit though, I’m not that old at all. I refuse to call any Ciara track a flashback of any kind. That shit only came out three years ago or so! What happened to giving us a flashback worthy of the name? What happened to old Onyx, Biz Markie, Slick Rick, Pete Rock, or Pharcyde videos? Are they all just outdated now? The supply and demand aspect of these video countdown shows is disappointing in relation to both elements of the concept these days. They supply what the people demand, and it’s kind of sad when the old classics like these fall out of consideration. But then again, I’m just an old fart that needs to get with the times now, right?

 

*The remix? Fuckin' thing sucks!


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