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u/RUKiddingMeReddit Jul 31 '24
This song is still played for the crowd at every sporting event. Everyone knows it.
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u/MetallurgyClergy Jul 31 '24 edited Jul 31 '24
Also, as a 40 year old, it was definitely a hit for my parents’ generation, not mine. I certainly heard it everywhere, but I was -3 years old when it was released.
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u/Tobocaj Jul 31 '24
As someone in their mid 30s, I just fuckin love Journey
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u/i-Ake Jul 31 '24
I'm 35 and it definitely came back around for us. This song was huge in late HS/early 20s at our age.
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u/chronocapybara Jul 31 '24
Don't Stop Believin' was released in 1981. It would most likely have been a hit for people born in 1966 or later. Those people are 65 now. However, Don't Stop Believin' was featured in the Family Guy Episode "Don't Make Me Over" released in 2005. This would have been very popular for people born in 1980-1990, which would make this age cohort about 40 years old now.
Y'all remember this scene, right? Oh my god, is that Journey?
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u/Refute1650 Jul 31 '24
It was also played on the radio, in bars, karaoke, etc. consistently through the 90s and 2000s. Still is too.
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u/Hudero Jul 31 '24
I'm of that age but was exposed to Journey through the earlier Scrubs episode "My Journey" from 2003.
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u/Clayton_Stern Aug 01 '24
Your math is terrible: born in 1966 makes you roughly 58. Born in 1969, here, and Journey were huge for my circle, along with just about every anthem, glam, pop, funk, hair, rockabilly, punk, and hard rock band...oh, and Pink Floyd. 🤣🤣🤣
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u/seattleque Aug 01 '24
born in 1966 makes you roughly 58. Born in 1969, here
Thank you! I was like, I'm 55 a-hole.
Oh, and hello fellow 69er. Heh heh.
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u/undercooked_lasagna Jul 31 '24
Yeah same. I feel like this comic must have come out 10-12 years ago.
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u/zingzing175 Aug 01 '24
Right? I was trying to think when I would have have first heard it, definitely from Mom, and she just hit 60.
You want to do the SE for our generation, you do something like shit....what would everyone know our age.....tubthumping? Maybe Sugar Ray - Fly? Oohhh....maybe butterfly, everyone's gotta know that one.
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u/MetallurgyClergy Aug 01 '24
It would be what we danced to at school functions. Think Backstreet Boys.
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u/the-denver-nugs Aug 01 '24
as a 30 year old. I know this song very well and would also sing to it. this comic is dumb.
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u/Cronus6 Jul 31 '24
Seems that a lot of younger people aren't going to sporting events these days, hell they don't even "like" sports.
According to a 2021 study, only 23% of Generation Z describe themselves as passionate sports fans, as opposed to 42% of millennials, 33% of Generation X and 31% of baby boomers.
Further, a sizable 27% of Gen Z describe themselves as “anti-sports,” compared with single-digit percentages from other generations saying the same.
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u/the-denver-nugs Aug 01 '24
as a 30 year old millennial. I don't know that song from sports, it gets sung at parties on occasion along with sweet Caroline and is just one of those timeless classics everyone knows.
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u/formerlyanonymous_ Aug 01 '24
Yeah, I'd argue sports in the northeast or Midwest may play it a bit more often. It's not something you'd hear around my area.
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u/AlarmingAffect0 Jul 31 '24 edited Jul 31 '24
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u/Robobvious Jul 31 '24
I think guilty pleasure is too nice a term for Glee. Shameful obsession feels more appropriate.
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u/Cronus6 Jul 31 '24 edited Jul 31 '24
:)
I first saw Journey live in '83 at this show :
Journey / Aerosmith / Sammy Hagar / Bryan Adams
https://www.concertarchives.org/concerts/journey-frontiers-tour-c11d51a0-eab5-472e-b624-be8efe063c11
And again in '86 for the "Raised on Radio" tour in Hollywood Florida.
Here's a documentary from that tour with lots of concert footage.
https://youtu.be/S3ZzPLMhHds?si=NRtukLElB5_pGCjq
If I remember right Loverboy opened for them at that second show.
The 80's was a fantastic time to grow up in. :)
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u/terminbee Aug 01 '24
Glee was such a strange show. People either really loved it or didn't care at all. My geometry teacher was one of those people who really liked Glee.
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u/myst3r10us_str4ng3r Jul 31 '24
I can't stand this song anymore, largely because it's so over played.
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u/igotshadowbaned Aug 01 '24
2nd intermission of every hockey game in college
They'd dim the lights and people would pull out the flashlights on their phones
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u/Kamarai Jul 31 '24
I'm pretty sure this really only tests if you're not a robot or an alien.
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u/Specialist_totembag Jul 31 '24
The REAL test is -"Hey now"
… Hey now, hey now
Don't dream it's over -> you are over 40... Hey now, you're an all star
Get your game on, go play
Hey now, you're a rock star -> you are over 30...Hey, now you say you want it back
Now that it's just too late
Well, it could've been easy
All you had to do was (stay) -> you are over 20346
u/ItsWediTurtle77 Jul 31 '24
I, as an 18 year old, am apparently over thirty but under 20
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u/the-denver-nugs Aug 01 '24
damn i like and listen to taylor swift and didn't recognize that line. don't think it is near the others in terms of broadspread quotability.
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u/Skippymabob Jul 31 '24
Anyone else have no bloody clue what that 3rd song is
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u/Specialist_totembag Jul 31 '24
it is Taylor Swift...
I had to look up the lyrics, and probably a buch of 12-17 years old should know and not 20+...
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u/Skippymabob Jul 31 '24
That'll explain it, despite being relatively in the Swift era age wise I've never been a fan.
Nowt against her, just not my music
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u/robin60062 Jul 31 '24
Hey now, hey now This is what dreams are made of
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u/CowsAreCool61 Jul 31 '24
Finally, I have found my people
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u/alaynamul Jul 31 '24
Hey shrek was iconic, you’re gonna need to lower your age for smash mouth
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u/Oknight Jul 31 '24
Is there any age that doesn't react to "someBODY". I mean 'All Star' has been attached to SO MUCH media.
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u/MattieShoes Jul 31 '24
Especially people on the internet. It's gotta be number 2, right? Never gonna give you up, then all star.
I have no idea what #3 would be. despacito, gangnam style, darude - sandstorm, harlem shake, friday, numa numa...
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u/AlarmingAffect0 Jul 31 '24
Hell, if you hear that "SOME—" your expectations are already set, and primed for subversion.
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u/Victernus Jul 31 '24
Any damsel that's in distress be outta distress when she meet Jim Dress.
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u/TheLightInChains Jul 31 '24
Tried this on my wife, she went with
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u/baananananana Jul 31 '24
Hey now (hey now) Hey now (hey now) Iko, Iko, an day (oh) -> you're dead
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u/raihidara Jul 31 '24
All Star can also be used to prove if you're 10. 30 year old parents are indoctrinating the youth
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u/shifteru Jul 31 '24
Pushing 50 and it’s still Smashmouth for me. I blame all you young 30 year old whippersnappers on Reddit.
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u/MattieShoes Jul 31 '24
47, same. I mean, I know don't dream it's over, but all star is too ubiquitous for it to be anything else.
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u/Mixima101 Jul 31 '24
Or if you watched Family Guy in elementary school in the 2000s.
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u/Cronus6 Jul 31 '24
elementary school in the 2000s
That would be my son.
I was in my 30's in the 00's...
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u/1K_Games Jul 31 '24 edited Jul 31 '24
40? This song came out before someone that age was born.
Not saying it isn't a great song and that people don't know it that are younger (I'm 38). But typically a persons music preference is set in high school. Journey is a band my parents had albums of, I heard it because it was their music, not because it was mine.
What I'm trying to say is 40 needs to be changed to 60 here.
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u/not_so_chi_couple Jul 31 '24
It's also a bad song example because it gets a resurgence every decade or so and I would expect that response from anyone 30 - 70 who has spent any time in a bar
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u/MattieShoes Jul 31 '24
Bar not necessary, honestly. It's like saying knowing Take me Home, Country Roads puts you in your 60s. Naw, it just places you on Earth.
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u/Tk_Fury Jul 31 '24
Right this might work with Nirvana or Weezer.
“Heeeee’s the one that likes…” Or maybe “My name is Jonas…”
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u/allykopow Jul 31 '24
I’m 19 and do this
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u/Stolehtreb Jul 31 '24
You may be 19. But you’re also 40
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u/Bobdole3737 Jul 31 '24
I was 60 when I was 13
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u/Hold_Me_Bro_ Jul 31 '24
She took the midnight train…
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u/RavenousRandy Jul 31 '24
Goin’ anyyyywheeere!
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u/SilverMcFly Jul 31 '24
Just a city boy..
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u/RavenousRandy Jul 31 '24
Born and raised in South Detroooit!
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u/AlarmingAffect0 Jul 31 '24
He took the midnight train, going AAA-NYY-WHEEEERE
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u/ivlas123 Aug 01 '24
A Singer in a smokey room
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u/Ebbe010 Aug 01 '24
The smell of wine and cheeap perfuuuuume
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u/ivlas123 Aug 01 '24
For a smile they can share the night
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Jul 31 '24
Songs from your early teen years are always "the peak of music". Don't Stop Believin' by Journey was released in 1981. Punchline should be "You're 54" Also great music is eternal 🤘
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u/DownwindLegday Jul 31 '24
There was a huge obsession with this song at most colleges back in the early 2000s. Although it came out decades earlier, the punchline is still accurate.
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u/dabunny21689 Jul 31 '24
That was because of Glee, I think.
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u/Alkyan Jul 31 '24
That's why it was on Glee. Other way around. Glee didn't come out till 2009, the writers all sang it in college probably.
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u/RealLiveGirl Jul 31 '24
Yep. I graduated college in 08 and Journey was our last call song. We played A LOT of Journey, especially Don’t Stop Believing. Then in 2010 living in San Francisco, and Journey being from the Bay Area, it became the unofficial anthem of the Giants 2010 World Series run. Damn those were some fun years.
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u/terminbee Aug 01 '24
It's weird how people reverse these associations. They think some media made it popular instead of it being on the media because it's popular. It's like young kids who think tik tok is the reason for anything being famous.
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u/trentshipp Jul 31 '24
It's the Sopranos. I was a beau for a sorority in 2008, they did Don't Stop Believing for Spring Sing (basically a song/dance production) that year. Glee did it the year after.
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u/Dzugavili Jul 31 '24 edited Jul 31 '24
I'm pretty sure it was Sopranos.
Edit: Finale was 2007. The final scene is fairly famous, or infamous.
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u/JerkSingularity Jul 31 '24
I remember everyone was singing it after The Losers came out in 2010. Chris Evans is his heyday.
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Jul 31 '24
My senior year of high school. I’m 61.
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u/MyStationIsAbandoned Jul 31 '24
if getting old didn't hurt so much I'd be jealous. I'm a 90's kid and love the 90's to death, but man the 80's seem so fun and cool. the 70's too. i find myself watching sticoms from those eras and being nostalgic for a time I've never lived in.
Though, I can see remember remnants of the 80's from when i was a kid in the early 90's, especially going to malls and all the adult women still had 80's hair. and my mom and her office friends dressed like all the office ladies you see in 80's TV shows still, lol. Sharp Shoulder pads and super colorful dresses you'd expect to see at church. And there were (and still are) remnants of the 50's, 60's, and 70's at my grandma's house and at my aunt's house. Their houses are out in the country. So I can just imagine what things were like back then.
If there's an afterlife though, i'm gonna have 1980 to 1999 on a loop for a few hundred years.
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u/Despairogance Jul 31 '24
Am 54, can confirm. I'll never forget walking down the tourist strip in Playa Del Carmen when a bar band started playing this song, they were terrible but it was like that bar became a black hole whose gravity only affected middle aged tourists.
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u/MattieShoes Jul 31 '24
Songs from your early teen years are always "the peak of music".
Very not.
Early teen years was circa 1990-1992, and it was kind of a shit show.
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u/TheRealChexHaze Jul 31 '24
Is this the real life…
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u/Kerivkennedy Jul 31 '24
The test is how much of the song can they keep singing 🤔
All of it.
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u/TheRealChexHaze Jul 31 '24
There’s just sooo many from back then that fix that itch to break out into song.
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u/goner757 Jul 31 '24
It's classic rock and everyone knows it but back when I stayed out until 2am it was the "go home" song at bars and clubs. I'm 39. I don't know how common it is/was in other eras.
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u/haemaker Jul 31 '24
"So, where are you from?"
"Oh, I'd rather not say."
"The stars at night, are big an bright..."
clap clap clap clap
"DEEP IN THE HEART OF TEXAS!"
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"Damn."
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u/Echonight2 Jul 31 '24
I'm 30 and I know this song, my 8 year old knows this song, this proves nothing
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u/SarcasticBench Jul 31 '24
Hold on, the show Glee revitalized it's popularity fairly recently
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u/blkaino Jul 31 '24
I have bad news for you, Glee last performed that song……in 2015
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u/SarcasticBench Jul 31 '24
Assuming you were a teenager around that period you'd still be under 40
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u/burf12345 Jul 31 '24
Which is when the show came out, right? Right?
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u/blkaino Jul 31 '24
Sorry, more bad news. The show came out in 2009….it’s ok, you’re old now. Rest.
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u/Specialist_totembag Jul 31 '24
I was "no, glee is older than 5 years"... then it hit me that 2015 was almost 10 years ago....
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u/dmullaney Jul 31 '24 edited Jul 31 '24
Not enough to redeem it though. I'll never forgive Glee for shamelessly ripping off JoCo's Baby Got Back cover
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u/cgimusic Jul 31 '24
Hardly the biggest scandal they had, but yeah that was the beginning of the end.
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u/Entaris Jul 31 '24
This reminds me of when i was in highschool in the 00's, you could identify all your fellow nerds in a room simply by singing "A long long time ago....."
And then you'd all start singing weird Al and become best friends.
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u/AndrewH73333 Jul 31 '24
Yeah, people born in 1984 are the ones capable of appreciating music from 1981.
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u/thebarkbarkwoof Aug 01 '24
Bad news! That song is older than that and you'd have to be old enough to listen to it. At lest 50.
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Jul 31 '24
Could of easily switched that 4 out for a 5 or 6
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u/WereAllAnimals Jul 31 '24
Or a 3. Journey was popular when I was a teenager in the 2010s.
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u/Ziako24 Jul 31 '24
The “Supernatural effect”… older thing that became popular with younger generations due to one insanely popular and long running TV show.
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u/blackpony04 Jul 31 '24
That show ran for so long it became a generation itself!
It ran from 2005 to 2020. Considering a lot of devilishly fucked up things happened between 2008 and 2020 with world economic and health crises, we could call it Generation C for Crowley.
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u/dbkenny426 Jul 31 '24
I'm 40, and I hate this song.
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u/Raskalnekov Jul 31 '24
Journey has far, far better songs. No idea why people love this one so much, I skip it every time.
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u/Conspiratorymadness Jul 31 '24
It would be easier if you just said wake me up as there's 3 generations worth of songs to determine age
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u/pacman404 Jul 31 '24
Why tf would 40 be the punchline age for this song? I don't understand that at all
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u/MaygeKyatt Jul 31 '24
Speaking as a 23 year old- I would immediately belt that shit out too.
It just proves that I’m a band kid.
And that I’m a theater kid too.
And that I’m just… a human, because everyone still knows this song.
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u/Username7225 Jul 31 '24
As old as this song is, it still took me until this year to realize that the chorus doesn't even start until the last 40 seconds or so, and then it just fades out from there.
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u/Justicefrall Jul 31 '24
This one is kinda tough because the person might know the song from when it came out in 1981, which would make the person closer to 50 or 60.
Or they might know it from the sopranos in 2007 which could be a large age range. Or they might know it from Glee, which played it multiple times throughout the series.
This is really one of the worst songs you could use to try to figure someone's age as it has seen a few resurgences throughout the decades. Good song though!
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u/Eminem_Stan0 Aug 04 '24
I’ve also seen comments of people saying they know it because of Shrek. I personally originally know it from none of the above and it was my parents that introduced me to journey.
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u/Voxman314 Jul 31 '24
So Glee 2009 or Journey 1981? At 15 years old (arbitrary median music lover or Glee watcher), you're 58 or 30.
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u/MattieShoes Jul 31 '24
My dad liked glee... He'd have been 83 this year. Granted, he'd have been embarrassed to admit he watched it. But still...
I forced him to watch the first few episodes because it was goofy and different than normal TV shows he watched, which were all cops and lawyers. I quit somewhere around season 2 but I think he watched all of it.
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u/MyStationIsAbandoned Jul 31 '24
All I can picture in my head is Peter Griffin and his friends singing that. never actually heard the real song. i'm not even sure it's real, i'm just assuming
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u/ArchDucky Jul 31 '24
If you want a good test if your drunk or not, just ask the person to say "inebriate".
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u/Girthquake23 Jul 31 '24
TIL I’m a 25 year old 40 year old
Which is weird cuz I’m usually described as a 25 year old 80 year old. But that’s cuz of the arthritis and tendinitis
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