This has been bothering me for the past few years. Why are there so many songs about seventeen-year-olds? Just off the top of my head, I can recall...
The Cars - Let's Go
The Stray Cats - Sexy 'n Seventeen
The Beatles - I Saw Her Standing There
Stevie Nicks (I think it was her solo stuff) - Edge of Seventeen
Winger - Seventeen (a CLASSIC)
Ladytron - Seventeen (I enjoyed having this played for me on my 21st birthday)
This is just from my iPod... except for the Beatles, I had the displeasure of hearing this song multiple times over the years. The Beatles are probably the only "inspiration" type of band (those that inspired tons of impostors and blindly faithful fans over the years) that exists that makes me like every band that came after them more. Even bands like the Exploding Hearts and the Star Spangles probably got some sort of inspiration from The Beatles. They are the original "The" band anyway, right? I blame them for people refusing to be creative with band names for the past 50 years.
The band that's been bothering me the most lately with their blatant plagiarism is Rilo Kiley. They used to be so good, up to their bullshit excuse for an album they released a couple months ago. UGH. Stop hanging out with Stevie Nicks, Jenny Lewis. Keep doing what I liked, keep it simple and poppy and at least 25% depressing. If I'm assaulted with the song "Silver Lining" one more time I will self-immolate (you know what I'm talking about, Tiny).
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I remember being 17 and loving that all those songs were about my age.
Then, I remember turning 18 and feeling like the whole musical world was against me.
I blame The Beatles.
It's really all their fault. Now we have to wait til we're 64 to have another Beatles song be about us.
Well... do you think maybe it's about those girls being not quite yet legal, so the longing is enough to write a song about it? In a few months those dirty old men can finally get what they're after without going to jail.
Kerry: that would be US law, and the Beatles are British. I'm not sure what the legal age for sex is in England, but here in Scandinavia it's 16.
Btw "Sweet little sixteen" Beatles
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