Stop, you're making me feel old...

[graculus]

I'm not working today or tomorrow, so I've just been to get my hair cut. Anyway, the place I go to usually has really appalling choice in background music and today was no exception - one of those 'school days' compilations, which effectively means music from the early 1980s. Which for many of us, myself included, conjures up all sorts of (mostly unpleasant) memories of school discos.

Imagine my mortification when, on commenting that the Adam Ant track currently being played is really scraping the bottom of the barrel, my (mid-20's) hairdresser tells me that she's never heard of him. It doesn't seem that long ago that you couldn't turn on the television without seeing Adam Ant, but alas it's longer than I care to consider... ;)

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[wildcard-sej.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah - tell me about it. I'm off too, and have been procrastinating about getting mine done all week. I'll probably go tomorrow 'cos I can't put it off any longer, and also Friday seems to be when all the pensioners go, which is better as I'm no longer the oldest. :)

Several of the girls seem to be barely old enough to have left school, and their main topic of conversation is clubbing or their friends' babies. They have tats and belly-rings on display because their clothes hardly cover them (or their underwear), and seem to be named after pop stars and soap characters. The music is usually from some commercial radio station with lots of irritating ads, and the lyrics and tunes are often familiar even if the current artist isn't, while terms like 'classic' and 'anthem' have new meanings...

[aizjanika.livejournal.com]

Hee! Adam Ant was after my time. *g* I only remember him with that one song, Goody Two Shoes or something like that, but it wasn't really on my radar back then. I'm just going to go sit over in my corner being really old. *g* (My body feels about 115, but inside I still think I'm 14. *g*)