Wow, never knew this about My Favorite Band.
Pull quote for the late-gen boomers:
“the children of the revolution were faced with reconciling the fact that loads of lovely songs had, in fact, failed to stop a string of assassinations and other atrocities”
John Kerry still has James Taylor sing “lovely songs” as real diplomacy.
No wonder we’re jaded.
And this juxtaposition:
“she said. “Right after Woodstock, then we went through a decade of basic apathy where my generation sucked its thumb and then just decided to be greedy and pornographic.”
Segue to, “Everyone’s Gone to the Movies” Katy Lied
In fact the whole concept of Katy lied was, well...sex in any way shape or form.
Wasn’t Forrest Gump’s trip to Mao’s China the inspiration for John Lennon’s song : IMAGINE ? 🤣😀 😆