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Ignoring a #1 hit?

gr8oldies said:
We DXed because we couldn't play sports and we were awkward around the opposite sex
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Your statement should be engraved on a stone wall somewhere... like at the WLW transmitter site, perhaps.

Before dyslexia was recognized as a real condition and when same-age girls all giggled a lot at idiocies, I took refuge in my HQ-180.

Later, when I changed High School, country and language, I found the first girl I could talk to intelligently... she had a number tattooed on her forearm.
 
I think the majority of high schoolers basically kept to themselves in the 70’s into the 80’s. Of course you can probably offer up many decades. Why? Probably because times were changing with video games, multiple cable channels,then later home computers.

I’m not saying this new culture of teen behavior is bad. It is just different. But since when did teen culture ever stay the same?
 
Yep, us anti social kids in high school made up probably 40 to 45 percent of those who were not engaging with others in high school. Didn’t mean we were too shy but rather they felt they just couldn’t relate to their classmates.in their high school. Students who failed often actually moved
 
I was always under tremendous pressure at home to get good grades. And the kids that started to get deeply involved with relationships invariably had a large drop in their GPAs. And that had an impact on getting into college, majors selected, and such. Kids that used to get all As dropped to barely a 3.0. I realize now that a lot of girls had crushes on me, but I ignored them, and then they became angry and ignored me and became mean. One of the tribe that David described, very attractive, went to MSU, dated up a storm, and ended up with an unmarketable degree. Then, years later, she went to a no nonsense business college and got a CPA. So it's a matter of priorities. You can't do both social and academics and do it well at the same time.
 
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Schroedingers Cat said:
I was always under tremendous pressure at home to get good grades. And the kids that started to get deeply involved with relationships invariably had a large drop in their GPAs. And that had an impact on getting into college, majors selected, and such. Kids that used to get all As dropped to barely a 3.0. I realize now that a lot of girls had crushes on me, but I ignored them, and then they became angry and ignored me and became mean. One of the tribe that David described, very attractive, went to MSU, dated up a storm, and ended up with an unmarketable degree. Then, years later, she went to a no nonsense business college and got a CPA. So it's a matter of priorities. You can't do both social and academics and do it well at the same time.
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On the other hand, when my daughter was near graduation, she wanted to practice a song with a guy friend, He said "I have 6 things I need to be doing right now. I thought "dude, you aren't even 18 and you're already working on your first heart attack".
 
tall_guy1 said:
Pretty much everybody did hate Soulja Boy in 2009 though.
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Everybody you know, and that's only because they all know how you feel about Soulja Boy and aren't about to disagree with you and risk getting involved in a stupid, needless argument. That song you can't stand was a monster hit, his second biggest. Radio wouldn't have been playing it if listener response was completely negative. Believe it or not, radio doesn't want to play songs that drive off the audience it's trying to reach.
 
tall_guy1 said:
Probably middle school kids. They'd be the only ones to like lines like"kiss me thru the phone....see you later onnn..."
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This is getting sillier by the post. Pop music history is chock full of lines far more stupid than that, in songs that have sold in the hundreds of millions to all age groups. Face it. You and your friends hate the song and the artist, period, no more, that's it.
 
tall_guy1 said:
Pretty much everybody did hate Soulja Boy in 2009 though.
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No, they didn’t. Unless you have actual, refutable proof of that hatred being so widespread outside of you and your friends, your statement is a mere opinion. (By the way, I was 16 at the time that song came out, and it was a monstrous hit in my home state, including right there in KC. The Vibe gave it high spins, and I believe Mix and Hot did as well. It’s a throwback for my generation that probably tests decently. Would I play it at the end of every hour to fill time? No. Every now and then? Yes.)
 
ksradiogeek said:
No, they didn’t. Unless you have actual, refutable proof of that hatred being so widespread outside of you and your friends, your statement is a mere opinion. (By the way, I was 16 at the time that song came out, and it was a monstrous hit in my home state, including right there in KC. The Vibe gave it high spins, and I believe Mix and Hot did as well. It’s a throwback for my generation that probably tests decently. Would I play it at the end of every hour to fill time? No. Every now and then? Yes.)
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https://www.metacritic.com/music/isouljaboytellem/soulja-boy-tell-em here's people who weren't fond of him.
 
I remember a number of radio stations banned George Michael's "I Want Your Sex". I'm willing to believe it prevented the song from reaching #1 (peaked at #2 on the Billboard Hot 100).
 
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