That's what the drunk walking down 57th street kept singing. He walked four steps and then repeated it, reminding everyone that we were all just extras in his Grand Funk music video. He was old enough that the song was likely an anthem from his glory days.
Speaking of which, did you know that Bruce Springsteen "Glory Days" is not a glorious celebration of how young and sexy you are, but actually an old guy's requiem for the passing of all freedom and sexiness? You didn't? Don't worry, it'll become clear someday soon.
Unlike the phenomenon known as Britney Spears. Case in point. As you may have heard, BS played a period of tonsil hockey with Madonna at the MTV awards. Apparently lesbianism is currently cool as all hell with the kids these days.
By itself, the scene is just icky. But let's place this in the larger context of BS's image choices. Lefty pundits like to talk about the Bush administration's "chronic up-is-downism," but W has jackeddy-doo on BS.
For me, nothing sums up BS's enigma like that damned juvenile toungue. In any given video BS will dry-hump a chair, let backup dancers giver her a good faux-gangbanging, teabag a sack of oranges, then hose a guy down with Pepsi and suck it from his pantleg...
And then she turns to the camera and sticks out her toungue: Nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah!
Nobody over four years old sticks their snackbagging tongue out. Somewhere right now George Lucas is telling Natalie Portman to stick her toungue out at Empreror Palpatine: it's that removed from the reality of how humans actually move and act. Contrived as it is, it's also deviously effective. That tongue gives her plausible deniability.
But now she's gone and stuck the damn thing down Madonna's throat, and taken the whole have-the-cake/eat-the-cake thing to a bizarre new level. To ape lesbianism in front of millions and then say "we should just trust our president in every decision that he makes" when the president has made it clear that lesbians mustn't be allowed to marry...
I don't get it. I think she just stuck her toungue out at me, at gay people, and at people who hate gay people. I have no hatracking idea what it means.
