Losing My Grip on Popular Culture

by Kori Rodley Irons | More from this Blogger

20 Jul 2007 07:28 PM

I am gradually becoming un-cool. Okay, maybe it has been happening for a long time but I'm only just starting to notice. I can now walk by a magazine geared toward the "youth" market--laying conspicuously on my coffee table with all its glitz and flash and glare--and have no idea who the person is on the cover. Not only that, I don't recognize any name or face from within the pages either. (the fashions, I recognize, but that's because I remember them from the LAST time around.)

I hear songs coming out of every corner of my house and have no idea who is singing them. I could not tell you a single "Top 40" hit song. I used to be able to quote the top ten at a moment's notice (and I'm not just talking about when I was sixteen either). Somehow, the land of popular culture is passing me by and I am becoming as un-cool and un-hip as my children have accused me of for years.

I'm not the fashion maven I once was either. By this age, I've pretty much found what works for me and I'm sticking with it. While I do get the fresh hair do, and update my wardrobe with age-appropriate additions each "season," I'm not really straying to the snazzy and new. Besides, as I mentioned earlier, the "latest and greatest" doesn't look new to me since I remember it being in fashion about twenty years ago. (Ah, you know you're getting old when...)

I'm the mom, I guess, and while I may not be completely out of touch--I really am un-cool, at least by all popular culture, youth standards. I'm okay with that. I didn't expect it to happen so soon, but I'm coping. Maybe I can figure out how to be cool for the forty-year-old set?

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