When I was about 7, I was riding in a car with my grandmother and a Temptations song came on the radio. I told her 'you know this song', and she said 'No I don't recognize it'. I was sure she was lying to me because she was old and so was the song. It took me several years to grasp the idea of the generation gap, and that the Temptations were popular when my parents were teenagers.
A childhood belief about getting older
others believed things like this
- When I first heard Bruce Springsteen's song, "Born in the USA," I thought that the song was "Porn in the USA"Anon
- i thaught the michael jackson song billy jean song said Janet's not my son Anon
- I used to believe that when a song came on the car radio, the band was sitting on top of our van.Anon
- I used to think that when a song finished on the radio it would play again on the next station— Maria
- I swear I heard a Disney Channel/Radio Disney song where the chorus was a repeated “Damn it”— SpengBab
- My sisters told me, and I still believe, that the 'Hokey Pokey' is the Devil's song.— You shake it all about...