A few years ago, I wrote about modern music. It seemed to me at the time that the music of the current generation was a lot more limited than the music of mine. It did not deal at all with larger things: politics, religion, fantasy etc. as we did. Listening now, I may have not been all together fair to the singers of today. It is true that there is a lack of originality in instrumentation. There does not seem to have been a new style of music this century, certainly nothing to rival rock in the 60s & 70s, synthesizers in the 80s or hiphop in the 90s. But as in those bygone days, the songs of now deal almost exclusively with how the singer is feeling at the moment; it’s just that those things are somewhat different. Modern music does indeed touch on themes like life, love, death etc. A common idea or symbol is, like smoking drugs in my time, smoking cigarettes, which is used as a metaphor for forbidden activities.

However. A current song, released in the past year and apparently liked by the younger set, is the attached. It is catchy, but the singer-songwriter is pushing 50 and should really know better when he makes an observation in the first verse. It’s not a particularly original observation, having probably been made by most people at some point when watching older films, but hey, every generation has to learn the same lessons as they grow older. This one, though, is especially objectionable. Can anyone 63 or older say why?