It was quite a revelation to me, when I read about Kate Bush’s “Running up that Hill” being number one on the billboards – and that a whole generation apparently just wasn’t aware of that song. How the hell can you not know that song?
Ok, I get it. I’m officially old. But if you didn’t know that one, then maybe I can take advantage of that fact and turn it over into providing a little cultural education that seems to be very much in order. So without further ado I’m hereby presenting my new Internal Education: popular culture of the not-so-distant past.
Please note that very little of the content of these blog-entries are “original work” – in fact, probably only the occasional personal anecdote is. What I do is decide on a song/video I want to showcase, research it with the help of Wikipedia, quite prominently songfacts.com (an awesome site I only became aware of after starting the blog) and whatever I find in good old Google searches and summarise it (more often than I would hope finding out in the process that the point I intended to make in the first place turns out not to be exactly how I thought it was…).