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sorcyressBefore he wrote Rent, Jonathan Larson wrote a musical called "Tick, Tick...Boom!" which I have never seen.
I have the soundtrack though, and there are a couple songs that have been in regular rotation on my playlists since basically freshman year of college. "Louder Than Words" is the fourth most played song in my entire iTunes, for instance, and 30/90 should score similar1.
30/90 has the repeated refrain "turn thirty, in the nineties" or sometimes "turn thirty, nineteen-ninety". It's a song about getting older (why can't you stay twenty-nine, hell you still feel like you're twenty-two) and about birthdays and stuff like that. And I have thought occasionally, vague and wistful, that I was barely existent in 1990, I can't quite have this cultural touchstone of turning thirty then.
Except I'm turning thirty this year. And "turn thirty, twenty-nineteen" scans *just* fine. Which means I've been singing different lyrics for the last six months, ever since I figured it out. It works for me, just fine.
Thirty nineteen, thirty-thirty nineteen. Scream it at the top of your lungs, kiddo.
~Sor
MOOP
1: So, there's a handful of songs that got a boost when I moved from Vera to Kela -basically whatever was on the phone at the time. Apparently Louder than Words was and 30/90 wasn't, which is the only way I can explain the 300 plays difference between them (especially since I actually prefer 30/90 as a song, like always.)
I have the soundtrack though, and there are a couple songs that have been in regular rotation on my playlists since basically freshman year of college. "Louder Than Words" is the fourth most played song in my entire iTunes, for instance, and 30/90 should score similar1.
30/90 has the repeated refrain "turn thirty, in the nineties" or sometimes "turn thirty, nineteen-ninety". It's a song about getting older (why can't you stay twenty-nine, hell you still feel like you're twenty-two) and about birthdays and stuff like that. And I have thought occasionally, vague and wistful, that I was barely existent in 1990, I can't quite have this cultural touchstone of turning thirty then.
Except I'm turning thirty this year. And "turn thirty, twenty-nineteen" scans *just* fine. Which means I've been singing different lyrics for the last six months, ever since I figured it out. It works for me, just fine.
Thirty nineteen, thirty-thirty nineteen. Scream it at the top of your lungs, kiddo.
~Sor
MOOP
1: So, there's a handful of songs that got a boost when I moved from Vera to Kela -basically whatever was on the phone at the time. Apparently Louder than Words was and 30/90 wasn't, which is the only way I can explain the 300 plays difference between them (especially since I actually prefer 30/90 as a song, like always.)
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