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Throwback hits

Today, while driving I was listening to the radio. They were playing "old" hit songs from early 2000's. While none of them weren't exactly my style of music I recognized most of them as they were the kind that at the time were playing everywhere and you couldn't miss them.

But that wasn't the problem. Instead, I realized thinking about those songs and artists as "recent" and "aspiring". Of course, save the few one hit wonders, those artists have had successfully careers spanning several decades already. Some of the songs were probably older than the radio DJ playing them.

Later I brought this fact up with my friend who is a teacher and she also had a similar experience of feeling old. Like for example teaching history in school, telling the kids about some "recent" events like 9/11 and realising these kids weren't even born yet back then.

I don't feel old yet! But I have lived long enough to already having experienced history. I wonder whether those recent hits start to feel like throwbacks in another twenty years.