Day 6 -- A Song That Reminds You of Somewhere
"First Date" -- Blink 182, Take Off Your Pants and Jacket (2001)
I was there when Ashley got Take Off Your Pants and Jacket. We were at Costco with her mom. Ashley wanted the latest Blink 182 CD, but alas, it had that dreaded "Parental Advisory Explicit Content" sticker on it. What's a thirteen year old to do? Why, she simply covered it with her hand and asked her mom. Ashley's mom, a lovely lady but not the most observant, bought it. She was too classy to get the title's pun.
Ashley and I became best friends after I moved to Oakesdale in the fifth grade. One of the first things we bonded over was music. We both listened to "Oldies" while the others in our class were drowning in a hormonal pool brought on by the Backstreet Boys and NSYNC. Maybe it's because our parents were in their 40s and everyone else's were a little younger. Or maybe we were just weird. But we sure liked our hits from the 50s and 60s. Whenever we hung out, the radio was tuned to Oldies 101.1.
Like so many things, that all changed in seventh grade. Our musical tastes began to cleave. I was getting into the Carpenters. soft rock, and 70s pop in general. Ashley was getting into pop punk and alternative. Obviously, these are very different styles of music. But since we weren't going to let a little thing like evolving melodic inclinations destroy our friendship, we made a rule: whoever's house we were at was who's music we listened to. Fair was fair. ABBA on Monday. Linkin Park on Tuesday.
Therefore, "First Date", the one song I actually liked from Take Off Your Pants and Jacket, reminds me of Ashley's room. It's a fun song. Sort of cute and immature and romantically themed which was all I needed from any form of entertainment when I was thirteen.
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