British Television
After a long day of work and class, and what Natalie has diagnosed as “the flu,” but I still deny, I’m lying on the couch watching TOP 50 Boyband Classics!* on the hits channel.
No. 5- New Kids on the Block, “Hangin’ Tough” This describes my life. Thanks, Joey McIntyre and south Boston!
No. 4- Wham, “Wake Me Up (Before You Go-Go)” This says something about the ambiguous sexuality of British men; they consider Wham a boy band instead of a strange but fleeting phenomenon.
No. 3- Take That, “I Want You Back (For Good)” This song shows that men in the UK don’t mind saying whatever it takes to get the nookie just like in America: “Whatever I said, I didn’t mean it/…Tell me the song and I’ll sing it/ I want you back for good.”
No. 2- BSB!!! SQUEAL. The first Backstreet Boys UK #1- “I Want It That Way” Damn, there is nothing even in jest I can say about this song. Because I love it and not in the cool ironic way, but in the “Sing it, brothas” way. I could write a whole post about this song, but I will say this song beats the heck out of its British counterparts. Suck on it, England! Score for Team America!!!*
No. 1-“Take On Me” A-Ha. This is a Norwegian band, which proves that in the face of the fall of British colonialism, the Vikings still pillage and plunder, dominating the seas and the airwaves. I’m not sure A-Ha qualifies as a full-fledged boy band however, because one of their members looks… old…
This will probably shortly be followed by a commercial for prostitutes to text if you like older and mature women or younger and inexperienced “women” (who are hopefully, but don’t appear to be, of consenting age). And some sort of American commercial with British voices. Then something with animals doing a mundane task (in America, we have real, live circuses- here they only have the tube (not to be confused with the Tube)), then a brand name.
Things I have learned:
-British people love the wild west, but not country-western. This includes, but is not limited to, cowboy boots, rhinestone jeans, and or commercials with British cowfolk gangs, which never existed. Live the dream, Londoners! I’ve been to Wyoming. So authentic.*
Answers I still seek:
-Do I suck at my job or not? It’s okay if I do, just would like to know!
Stuck with glue (i.e. sick with flu?),
Lindsey
*Where is n*SYNC in this top 5?
*Today, my Welsch professor credited Britain (not just England, so he could say something about Wales) with inventing rock n’ roll from the blues (which he vaguely referred to as being in America). But, being here only one week, I know for a fact loves everyone loves The King, and I don’t mean one of the many unpopular monarchs. And Buddy Holly (The Musical!). What a tool. Later tonight, he mentioned that Irish people are illiterate but kind. This is the British version of the Southern “Bless your heart…” idioms.
*Also, I confirmed their suspicions KY was a frontier, so I feel like this makes me a foreign honorary cowgirl.
