I heard them on the radio (again)

Nearly nine years ago I felt compelled to call out a righteous streak of songs I happened to hear on the radio on a ride home. Yesterday I was bumming around town with my boys in our Honda Accord when I opted to pop the FM on instead of their go-to musical fare. Here was the lineup we were treated to: “Genie in a Bottle” by Christina Aguilera “Always Be My Baby” by Mariah Carey “Complicated” by Avril Lavigne “Live and Let Die” by Wings “Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’” by Michael Jackson “Bye Bye Bye” by *NSYNC “Free Fallin’” by Tom Petty You can quibble with the quality of some of these tunes all you want, but I won’t hear it. It was one bop after another on a perfect windows-down sunny day. It did make me realize that the music I considered “oldies” when I was a kid, like The Beatles for example, was the same amount of time in the past then as *NSYNC’s heyday was to today. So that’s… something.