Friday, January 20, 2006

Kids these days!

How very odd. I was walking home along my street today and a mob (yes! a mob! the way they were stomping and shouting in unison would force even their loving parents to concede that they were a mob, just in case you were thinking of accusing me of going all Daily Mail) of middle school boys was heading towards me. They were all singing something and, despite having an average age of eleven, they seemed sort of scary. Scary, that is, until I realised that the music they were so, um, aggressively and hormonally pumping out was none other than Listen to Your Heart by Roxette.
Listen to your heart
when he's calling for you.
Listen to your heart
there's nothing else you can do.
I don't know where you're going
and I don't know why,
but listen to your heart
before you tell him goodbye.
How very, very odd.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I have a memory of us on the school bus on a middle school trip to the Lakes, singing another Roxette classic, "The Look":

Walking like a man
Hitting like a hammer
She’s a juvenile scam
Never was a quitter
Tasty like a raindrop
She’s got the look

Heavenly bound
Cause heaven’s got a number
When she’s spinning me around
Kissing is a colour
Her loving is a wild dog
She’s got the look

Eh?

Roxette - the pop group of choice for all discerning 11-year olds.