Written by Christina Marie Del Santo.
When an object becomes 25 years old it becomes an antique. A movie becomes a classic, and a song becomes the dreaded "oldie". Most of have the idea of bopping around the back seat of our mothers cars (without seatbelts) listening to The Beach Boys, Elvis, and the Supremes, as oldies. Well guess what: we're that age now. Our music is now oldies. A lot of it has been for years. Just turn on 101.3 f.m. and you see. Lots of Billy Joel, and worse, solo Phil Collins. It's not that the music we grew up listening to is no longer valid and doesn't serve our brains for nostalgia. It's just that, well OUR music that we grew up listening to is now oldies. Strange huh?
I remember thinking 1990 would be like the future. I had all sorts of wicked cool electronics: NES,
Pxl cam, a CD player in my own room. I felt like a Jetson. So it's been kind of hard for me to wrap my head around the fact that music made in 1990, when I was 12, is now in fact oldies. Maybe it's the closer to 40 than 30 denial, but it really doesn't seem that long ago that Ice Ice Baby was popular. I am still saying "word to your mother."
So in I have compiled a list of 50 songs, that as of
January 1, 2015, are now officially oldies. I hope you enjoy, I'm going to get back to my cross-stitching and telling kids to keep off my lawn!
