Every year that I age, my musical knowledge gets more pathetic, because as it turns out people keep on making and recording new music, so there is geometrically more of it for me to be unaware of. The thing is, I am not cool. I have never been one of those people who just knows about the hot new song and/or artist. (Nor do I know about the hot old artist. I think I learned that Television is a good band maybe late last year.) I am instead one of those people who turns to her friend in a crowded bar in June of 2011 and says, “This song about feeling ‘so alive, so alive, so alive’ is pretty catchy!” and the friend nods slowly, and explains who Nicki Minaj is. (The explanation, frankly, I’m still not sure I understand, but again, that is my fault. I am not cool.)
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