Gen X’s Nostalgia for 1980s Music Is a Memory Problem
Gen X nostalgia for 1980s music like Starship’s “We Built This City” and Toto’s “Africa” is built on old forgotten words and ancient melodies – and faulty memory.
Jay Lowrey
Following a brief reporting stint for The Daily Corinthian, Jay Lowrey has
published fiction in Voices, Kaleidotrope, Night Chills, and The Society of
Misfit Stories Presents..., along with poetry in The Blue Collar Review. He
and his wife currently live in Mississippi, less than a mile from where
Faulkner's As I Lay Dying begins.
Listen Up Gen Xers: Satan Ain’t (Taylor) Swift
I first heard about Slayer in a church in Mississippi. The sermon warned of metal’s Satanic influence. Now we old head-banging Gen Xers are afraid of Taylor Swift?