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It's so strange for me, having been born in 1988, to hear someone not know who this guy is, and this song.
I fully understand that it's been just about 30 years since this came out, and there are multiple generations of kids that will never have heard it that are fully grown adults now.
Its just that this song was not only massive, one that everyone knew, but it lived on way past its release date, it was played on radio, tv, used in films and tv shows (silicon valley is a recent one of note). The same band also had a meme based on the film "napolean dynamite" with the song canned heat, which the main character did a dance to that made it into games such as world of warcraft and fortnite.
The band is a part of pop culture, and despite it all, there are still places in the world where people dont know instantly what this picture is from and who that is.
I get it. It just boggles my mind how vast the world is. Even 10 years ago there were people living in the north west of england asking who the beatles were. (Beatles are from liverpool in the north west of england and liverpool is littered with beatles murals, staturs and that kind of shit) its insane that anyone could not know who they are.
But hey ho. Just thinking out loud.
I'm between 1 and 2 years older than you and I just found the song. As far as I can tell I've never heard it or anything about that dude before.
Not sure where I would have heard it... But I am pretty good at guess that tune from about 1970 to 2010 when I switched to streaming my own playlists.
I was born in 1988 as well; I just don't recognize most musicians by their faces. (Is that a normal thing to do?) No need for the freak out.
Sorry for not always seeing every music video for every popular song. My bad, yo.
Hey man, i wanna be clear. That wasn't intended as a freak out. At all. I'm sorry it came off that way. It was a general musing about how vast the world is and that despite thinking everyone must know about a particular thing, there will always be people that don't.
I was more wonder and amazement at that fact. I wasn't having a go at you.
Sorry again my dude.
I know who he is (thanks to context from other comments), I just don't recognize his face.
I once head 20yis on the bus saying how lucky that old guy Paul McCartney was for being in Rihanna video, like, it'll really be a boost for his career...
I only knew the song years ago from one single source which was a DDR game on Xbox. Born the same year too lol. Until my 20s I thought it was some obscure song with cheap to buy licensing for the game.
In the last 5-10 years though I did see the music video for the first time and in the past couple years I have seen his name pop up several times at least.
That's about it though. I guess I never really listened to music until my teens and any car radio was 70-80s rock or even older pop music.
Also, little kids are going around in Nirvana t-shirts, so they can can all the “before my time” natter.
...and never listened to In Bloom.
Well it's possible people have heard the song and just not know where it is from. I've seen the music video in muted online clips about film production, but I don't think I've ever actually heard the music.
I don't think I've ever heard the music and the video together at once so I wouldn't have made any connection. Assuming that you have heard the music because I have no idea what it would even sound like.
Yeah! Thats what i am saying.
It absolutely makes sense that there will be vast numbers of people who dont know any single well known anything.
But it never fails to blow my mind just how big the world is.