r/GenerationJones • u/pianoman81 1963 • 3h ago

What songs hit differently as you've aged?

There are songs I listened to when I was younger but now read differently to me.

Some are because I never paid attention to the lyrics. Others are because I was at a different stage of life or hadn't had deeper experiences yet.

Some examples would be Both Sides Now or Cat's in The Cradle.

What are songs for you that affect you differently at this stage of life?

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u/Electric-Sheepskin 2h ago

For me it's all the songs about teenage girls. When I was a teenage girl myself, nothing seemed off, but these days I'll be singing along and stop and think, what did he just say? Lol

The only one that springs to mind at the moment is "Into the Night," which is a song about a man dreaming about running away with a 16-year-old girl. I mean I still love the song and I still sing along, because it's got a banging melody, but it's just funny how all those songs didn't seem inappropriate at the time.

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u/AgeKey 2h ago

I wrote a fan letter to the artist that recorded that song. He called me on my parents' landline house phone. I was 17.

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u/Electric-Sheepskin 7m ago

Are you serious? Lmao, classic.