“Put my hands around your shoulders
That's the way that I hold ya
I could lay with you forever, baby, oh
I'm fallin' every day
Something came over me
I'd give you everything
Over and over a-
I'm fallin' every day
Something came over me
I'd give you everything
Over and over again”
I just had to do a Google search to figure out what I was actually watching when I found “the” song. It was the Netflix series Dear White People… makes complete sense.
Okay, so…
Back in 2019, I heard this song playing while I was watching “Dear White People”. I Shazamed it, I found it, I listened to it, I fell in love with it. However, the artist didn’t have much, if any, other music on Apple Music – weird, but I was okay with the one song, because the one song was magnificent. It’s called “Over and over” by the way.
Fast-forward from 2019 to Tuesday, and the artist has a bunch of music on Apple Music, so I went on a wild binge. I was listening to a particular song and when I caught myself, I said, “This song still playing?” Mind you, it was a great song, but it just felt a little long, so I checked and the entire song was just under four minutes. *Ooofff*
This has happened to me before – times I’ve felt like a song seemed long – HOWEVER, I’ve also realized that this is the systemic corruption of our minds in full effect. Well, okay, not corruption – that was for dramatic effect – but I feel like “the system” is trying to make us stupid. Four minutes for a song used to be the standard. In today’s era, though, you’re lucky if a song lasts a full two minutes – like “Riot” by Summer Walker is only a minute and 45 seconds.
What!?
So because we’re being so cognitively trained to get songs that are under two minutes, these other longer songs seem, well, long – and, trust me, they’re all good songs (for the most part), but it’s just interesting to see how we’re pretty much being groomed.
I read a post recently from Jackie Hill-Perry that said:
“When I went back to school, I had a whole list of school supplies: Crayons, number-2 pencils, erasers, glue, a ruler, a calculator, a notebook, a binder, and a few folders. All my daughter is required to bring on her first day is a mask, sanitizer, and a Chromebook.”
Ignore the mask and sanitizer part…lol.
I remember when we used to count on that abacus thing. Now these kids can’t live without a calculator. Bruh, I remember when we actually needed to write sentences to answer questions on tests. MAYBE you’d get five multiple choice questions, but that was a gift. Today’s tests are basically just multiple choice…Lol.
And it’s not to say that kids or people today are dumb (LOL) but I do feel like there’s a level of problem solving or independence that they’re losing with so much “assisted learning” – I don’t know.
I don’t know, man! Small rant I guess. It was just a really interesting realization I had this week.
*Yo, Siri, play over and over by sky*
