When I was young, my mom listened to the oldies station on the radio a lot. I grew up believing that all the old songs were very recent. It didn't even occur to me until later that there other styles of music, and that the songs I'd heard weren't necessarily the most popular ones at the time.
A childhood belief about songs
others believed things like this
- My parents used to have an old radio. I thought it could only play old songs, like from when they were young.— kathy
- I used to think that church songs were pop music. Well, we did sing them in church every week...— Roxy
- I believed that "oldies" were a genre of music still being produced. — UB
- I used to believe if you listened to to music upside down the music would be backwards— HOopty
- I used to believe that all songs were exactly a half-hour long.— Brian
- When I was little my sister told me that if I put a C.D. in the wrong case, it would mess up the C.D.'s songs.— Torrie