Thrill!

[james_davis_nicoll]

To young people complaining about being slightly less young than they used to be.

There were moments during the run of the show when I was perhaps not as entirely sympathetic to the burden of advanced age felt by people in their early 20s as I might have been (although I did try to make them feel better by pointing out that e.g. any aches and pains they might feel now are but faint harbingers of what is to come).

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[j_v_lynch]

awesome.

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

I would call "We Are Young" a "We Built This City On Rock And Roll" for our time, but I hate to be contemptuous of anything involving Janelle Monáe in any capacity.

[seth ellis (from livejournal.com)]

I go back and forth on that whole Fun album. It's so self-consciously over the top that I can almost forgive how, well, over-the-top it is. I tend to use them as an example of how artist who want to be sincere these days have to be post-ironically sincere; they have to show that they're capable of irony and have moved beyond it.

But of all songs on the album to be the single, yikes, this one. Their previous album was less gooey in that way.

[seth ellis (from livejournal.com)]

When I say "I go back and forth," I mean "It's not that good, but I can't stop listening to it."

[http://users.livejournal.com/krin_o_o_/]

being in your thirties is "Not Young"?

BWAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH...

*erk*

Sorry, laughed so hard I swallowed my bridge.

- krin

[laetitia-apis.livejournal.com]

You're supposed to be an adult by then.

At least we used to be. There's a disquieting movement to forbid children to mature. Whenever someone does something young and foolish, everybody yells "we shouldn't have let him practice -- increase the *ing age."

[le-trombone.livejournal.com]

Eh. I remember being in shock when I bumped into a young'un in the arcade (yes, that long ago) and he said "oh, excuse me sir."

I was in shock for the rest of the weekend. I was a "sir"?

I was 24.

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

I've heard people express this sentiment from time to time, and looking back at my life, I don't think there ever was a time when being called "sir" sounded jarring to me. People did it sometimes even when I was a kid, especially in commercial contexts.

I suspect this is a regional thing: I grew up in northern Virginia, on the edge of the cultural South.

[le-trombone.livejournal.com]

I was living in an Eastern suburb of Cincinnati at the time, which for all practical purposes could be Kentucky culturally. So it could also have been a regional thing.

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

Also, when I hear the title "We Are Young" the song that pops into my head is always Pat Benatar's "Love Is A Battlefield", which is just an indication of how not-young I am.