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bensanaz

Birthday #1 meme thing

Feb 04, 2010 16:27

Okay, so furikku posted a meme about looking up the Billboard #1 song on your date of birth. I got Rapture by Blondie, which is neither the best nor the worst possibility for someone my age doing this meme, even with the somewhat ill-advised and rather surreal rap section. As an added bonus the lyrics work surprisingly well for a nerd determined to ( Read more... )

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degreeabsolute February 4 2010, 17:51:43 UTC

The thing with the rap section is that Debbie Harry & Co. were fans of the nascent hip-hop scene in New York City, which was growing up alongside the CBGB's-punk-new-wave scene of Blondie/Television/Talking Heads/Ramones/etc., and while it may seem ill-advised from a modern perspective, at that point, it was an entirely new thing.

(Not as bad as anything I've gotten---the US charts have me being born to Rick Springfield's "Jessie's Girl" and, IIRC, Shakin' Steven's "Green Door" in the UK. If I was one week earlier, the UK chart would have given me "Ghost Town" by The Specials, which would have been Officially Awesome.)

bensanaz February 5 2010, 01:26:29 UTC

Yeah, to be fair it's not the usual sort of thing one associates with white performers' ill-advised rap segments. Rather than being I AM THE MOST COOLEST it's one of those bizarre Super Rhymes-esque meandering narratives.

degreeabsolute February 5 2010, 17:46:06 UTC

It could always be http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zBz27MdSn4 , which just makes me sad that I'm a fan.