Yep, it’s true. Our culture has changed so
rapidly in the last couple of decades that some tunes simply don’t make sense anymore.
Back in the ’70s we had Jim Croce’s
“Operator”. We don’t even know what one of those is today. A little later, we
had Paul Simon’s “Kodachrome” and the Boomtown Rats’ lyrical reference to a telex
machine. (Now, there’s an obscure one!) More recently, we stepped up to Maroon 5’s “Payphone”, or Brand New’s “Mixtape”
(apparently not so brand new after all). Or what about all the references to pagers
and beepers in ’90s rap songs? Gone and forgotten.