Comments | what_larks: I'm a pop culture failure

what_larks

I'm a pop culture failure

Aug 08, 2011 19:36

So I realized at one of the way too many weddings I attended recently that I know the lyrics to very few currently popular songs. The lyrics I do know I only know because of Glee. Seriously, until this Saturday, I had never heard Katy Perry's version of Teenage Dream. It makes me feel like I should be sitting in a rocking chair, shaking my head ( Read more... )

so that's how you tag, really no one cares about my real life

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caveatempty August 9 2011, 01:41:18 UTC

Hey, you and me both! (On Top 40 songs and the writing thing.) And you've got Destiny's Child on me, which means I'm older than you. I don't get this whole Beyonce thing.

Katy Perry's version of Teenage Dream is kinda creepy.

what_larks August 9 2011, 02:38:31 UTC

Yeah, I never actually owned any music by Beyonce, but Destiny's Child (and TLC and...some others I don't know) were in my prime MTV watching days, so the lyrics wormed their way into my head an never left.

I have a story for you about how I freaked out for 2.5 seconds at work a couple of weeks ago because I saw the possibility of my real life and my pretend life colliding. I'll send you an email this week because it involves me wondering for those 2.5 seconds if it was possible that you had moved here and started working at my office.

lesley_green August 9 2011, 01:51:27 UTC

Look, I came to reread 'A Legal Fiction' and you've updated your page! I care about your real life. I don't know much about new music either. 'Bugaboo' is fun to say.

And, if you're taking requests, something about 'Prom' always bothered me. Everyone else was all, "Ooh, Kurt and Blaine together forever." But I must be watching something else because when it ended I was so jealous of Karofsky on Blaine's behalf.

1. "What? Kurt forgave a crying DAVID? Karofsky cried, and Blaine couldn't even say 'scared?' Kurt is supposed to be the one person that he DOES tell everything."

2. Kurt tells people that he loves what to do. He tells his Dad and Mercedes what to eat, he tells people what to wear, and he told Finn season one which products to use on his face. He never once told Blaine what to do (we don't have to go, you don't have to come...), yet he told DAVID to get help, to please come out now and make a difference.

Can you write something about this? If you're not the request type, forget I said anything. Good night!

what_larks August 9 2011, 02:49:02 UTC

Hmm...I've never worked off a request (unless you count the time I requested something of Mary and then wrote it myself)...

I do sometimes play around with the idea of going back to my Pretentious Philosophically Titled Prom Series and doing Kurt's POV but I haven't ever got a handle on what that would be.

re: #2: I would disagree a little that "Kurt tells people that he loves what to do" or at least that he would characterize it that way. I think Kurt tends to the people he loves, he cooks for his father and plans a wedding and looks after Rachel's ambition. He's very much an only child though, so it does kind of come off as bossy. (For more on my thoughts on this, see Said/Unsaid).

I totally get weird around "Kurt and Blaine together forever" too though, to the point that the one future fic I wrote I had to break them up for a bit. I just can't trust a high school relationship to last forever and ever without some significant work (which is sort of stupid, to be honest, because I am the product of high school sweethearts).

lesley_green August 9 2011, 12:25:28 UTC

You're right, I should have said, "lovingly" tells them what to do.

monkeyforlove August 9 2011, 02:55:01 UTC

Ha! I know what you mean - I teach writing at a university and last semester I made a reference to Top Gun and Kenny Loggins' "Danger Zone." Half my students didn't get it because they've never seen Top Gun (not even on TNT?!!) - then I realized that it was released before they were born. Yeah, I suddenly really felt my age . . .

caveatempty August 9 2011, 17:03:56 UTC

The other day I made a Cheers "Norm!!" comment and people in the room just blinked at me. Talk about feeling old.

Ah, Iceman...

what_larks August 9 2011, 23:57:07 UTC

Top Gun was a seriously big deal in my family, I mean, my grandparents gave us an illegal copy before illegal copies were a thing.

I'm not even actually all that old, but now I feel it. It's much like the time a few years ago when my much younger brother gave me an epic eye roll when I didn't know who the Jonas Brothers were.