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[-] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 8 points 7 months ago

unless i'm missing something, the math on "your kids are gonna love it" checks out.

let's say the chronological age of appreciation for Eddie Van Hallen style is something like 15 - 25, so long as the listener is hearing it for the first time between the years 1974-1985, which is when Eddie Van Halen was in Van Halen and would exist in a world where crazy hair/glam metal shredding was beloved/cool in the music world.

If Cousin Marvin Berry (of Marvin Berry and the Starlighters) had a kid that was born between 1949 - 1970, it works. The actor playing Cousin Marvin was 31 at the time of the movie (1955), so if he had kids at any age between 25 and 46, it works.

but yeah, in a modern reimagining, the "wack music" would have to be something from today that people in the 1990s would have found too far out / unpartyable even when they were young, so like a skibidi toilet and kanye+grimes mashup

[-] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 4 points 7 months ago

I think you misunderstood me. The reason that line is weird to me is that surely these kids who are around 17-18 in 1955 are of the generation that’d be into Johnny B. Goode when it comes out a few years later. Their kids would be into I dunno, Yes or whatever else was big in the early 70s.

[-] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 12 points 7 months ago

isn't the line "your kids are gonna love it" in reference to the band and the audience, having stopped dancing/playing and just staring at him like he's insane after part-way into Johnny B. Goode he goes bonkers and shreds for several minutes, flopping on his back, kicking amps and trying to be Eddie Van Halen? the full line is, "Guess you guys aren't ready for that yet... but your kids are gonna love it." he starts going off the rails in the clip at 4m 36s

he's not talking about Johnny B. Goode. they all loved that. he's talking about his wackass odyssey solo he trails off into.

[-] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 11 points 7 months ago

Oh wow, I feel so stupid right now. I've seen that movie so many times and never even thought that line was actually referencing the solo routine Marty did and not Johnny B. Goode, but that's obviously what ”your kids are gonna love” picard

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