For no particular reason, the song “Fame”, by Irene Cara, came into my mind today. Google tells me it was released in 1980: 42 years ago. I haven’t heard it in very nearly that long, but I recall it clearly, and I even recall the name of the singer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That is just how hugely popular that song was… briefly. And then nothing. When’s the last time you<\/strong> thought of it? How strange that is. The fleeting popularity of fame, so to speak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It’s not really my style of pop song, and I still haven’t seen the eponymous movie, but even I loved the song and sang along to it, at the time. Of course, I was in my early teens then, and a boy, so I could never actually tell<\/em> anyone I loved that song. It would have been indistinguishable to wearing a “call me a ‘homo’ and push me down” sign. (I’m not gay, and was even less<\/em> so then, thanks to adolescent hormones, but bullies don’t place a high value on accuracy. Hopefully, my own miserable teen years helped distract the bullies from actual gay kids.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Anyway, that’s not what compelled me to write this post. I’m writing this post because I asked Google to “play ‘Fame’ by Irene Cara on YouTube, on ‘downstairs group'” (my downstairs speakers). And, obligingly, it did (Google can be… contrary, sometimes).<\/p>\n\n\n\n And then it played “YMCA”, by the Village People.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And THAT made me laugh out loud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n