Lines That Make Songs Sound Dated.

It looks like the last proper album she released was in 2012. I don't really follow her so I don't know how well it did or what she's been up to since.

 

I don't know. I can still party like it's 1999! Minus the need to make sure I have plenty of bottled water and non-perishables!

 

Can't say I follow her either, other than what I hear occasionally through TV or radio. But whenever I hear that line, it breaks my imagination and takes me back to mid 2000's pop culture.

 

The Partridge Family's 'Echo Valley 2-6809' stands out like that too. Granted it's a bit before my time but I get it.
Imagine the kiddies today with a totally confused look as they hear a song like that.

 

Luna - 4000 Days
"Flies the size of cigarette packs
I tried to pay with camel bucks"

 

wow- if that line isn't just loaded with cultural baggage.....

cheers,
rob

 

Brilliant

 

"Youre sixteen, youre beautiful n youre mine" sung by a man in his 30s

 

You think guys dating younger girls is out of date now?

 

Never out of date .. Its nature ... but borderline illegal now in many places

 

This is how Björk ruined "Mouth's Cradle."

 

Asia - Heat of the Moment. "And now you find yourself in '82." Great song, though.

 

"Only way to roll, Jigga and two ladies/I'm too cold, Motorola two way page me"

Artist: Jay-Z
Song: "I Just Wanna Luv U (Give It 2 Me)"
Year: 2000

 

I Can't Drive 55! (or 65)

 

These phone numbers need area codes!
634-5789
867-5309

 

Telegrams:

 

"Unemployment's rising fast/The Beatles new record's a gas..."
Instantly dated...When 'Ball of Confusion' was released in May 1970, The Beatles had already been broken up for a month.

 

In the year 2525...

 

Dire Straits - Money For Nothing.

Aside from it mentioning playing guitar on MTV, and "We gotta move these colour TV's" (as if TV's would be anything else these days), there's lyrics like "See the little ****** with the earring and the makeup, Yeah buddy that's his own hair, That little ****** got his own jet airplane, That little ****** he's a millionaire", which probably wouldn't go down to well now.

Edit: lol, that word's censored here.

 

"And the colored girls go, doo dodoo"

Walk on the Wild Side - Lou Reed

 

Queen - Play The Game

"When your feeling down and your resistance is low
Light another cigarette and let yourself go"

Cigarette's have become quite a taboo subject these days.

 

Pretty much until the end of his life, Prince kept updating the lyrics to "Kiss" after Dynasty had left their airwaves. I remember at one point, he was singing "You don't have to watch Sex And The City to have an attitude", in 2007 when I saw him, he namedropped Desperate Housewives. When I saw him last year, he said Real Housewives.

 

Prince - "Kiss"

"You don't have to watch Dynasty to have an attitude"

Dynasty??? I remember thinking that line was dated when it was released in 1986.

 

The Dire Straits song is probably more dated for being the last major instance of a homophobic slur on Top 40 radio.
Hip-hop carried on the tradition in the 90s (mainly Dr. Dre and then Eminem) but the F-word was censored by that point.