Showing posts with label age. Show all posts
Showing posts with label age. Show all posts

Saturday, June 29, 2019

Billy Joel "Honesty"

"You ain't old. That song might be old, but you ain't old."

-Tamika (the security guard in my office building)


Sunday, March 11, 2018

Steely Dan "Hey Nineteen"

Benny Mardones sings longingly about a 16 year-old girl in "Into the Night" which begs the question: how old is Benny in the song? Hopefully he's just 17 or 18. The same question comes to mind in Steely Dan's 1980 hit "Hey Nineteen". The song speaks of his disappointment in a nineteen year-old love interest, buuuut we don't know how old the singer is...

Saturday, November 11, 2017

Tina Turner "What's Love Got to Do With It"

When Tina Turner's "What's Love Got to Do With It" hit #1 in 1984, it made her the oldest female (at the time) to hit #1 on the Hot 100. Turner was 44. Fifteen years later, Cher broke that record when her dance anthem "Believe" topped the chart in 1999. Cher was 53.