Music

This song came on one of Jake's Pandora stations the other day. It was totally ironic because Mariah and I have just started hanging out again lately and when I met her back in 7th grade--this song was one of her favourites. Hearing this song totally brought me back to one of my first memories of her--her singing this at the top of her lungs.

It was when the whole skate pop-punk thing was becoming huge then and all the crushes we had were on boys with studded belts and Vans. You know, the old school ones like these checkered kind.

Which ironically since then have become really mainstream and you're not some "weird skater punk" wearing things like this. Its just normal, especially with some of the crazy TOMS they have out there. Its funny how stuff changes.

Jake was surprised we listened to this type of stuff back then. But then again, he had only heard country music and some random stuff his dad listened to until about high school. I guess that's what kind of happens in semi-isolated areas. He only started to listen to other stuff when his friend Alex introduced him to the Offspring and then it branched out from there. When his dad went out of town he'd download stuff from Ramstein to New Found Glory. He learned about Yellowcard from Amped (xbox) and the Counting Crows from Warren Miller movies. But this was several years later.

Music was different for me growing up. My brother listened to classic rock and mainstream ska. I didn't really like classic rock until after high school but at like, seven I was singing to Sublime and the Mighty Mighty Bosstones which kind of paved the way for my interests later on. In middle school it seemed like everyone's older brother had a punk band and hung out at record stores after schools. At these record stores my friends and I picked up punk compilations and started to listen to stuff like Black Flag and Avail. Using the inside of cd covers, we learned about the bands that inspired them and started listening to that stuff. Some of it was older stuff like the Clash and the Sex Pistols.

And then the pop punk and ska scene that hit pretty heavily at the time which was absolutely sickening to some of the kids that listened to the more hardcore stuff so we kind of kept it secret. We were closet Good Charlotte, Fenix TX, and New Found Glory fans and were kind of obsessed with it.

Its just fun to kind of hear how people have gotten into the stuff they listen to now and how they discovered it and stuff like that, especially in semi-isolated areas where the only music that's played is country. Its kind of mind blowing to the both of us that what was mainstream to me at 11 and 12 was new and surprising and hard to come by to him several years later.