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@jsr Adams himself said in an interview on tv that the song is about a very special love experience.
@realSiegfried not his own experience.
Bryan was 10 years old in 1969, living in Beruit where his British father was a military attaché.
His agent and rock promoter Bruce Allen had matched Bryan up with a lyricist who was a decade older. He has said in interviews after he was free of that contractual relationship that he wasn’t always comfortable justifying songs that weren’t within his own experience.
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This is going to be hard to hear, but:
Bryan Adams released "Summer of '69" in 1985. A similar nostalgia-based song released now would be harkening back to the distant and bygone year of 2010.
@jsr @matthewskelton The very first album I ever bought was The Number Of The Beast by Iron Maiden in 1982. That’s 44 years ago.
Thanks for making me feel very old
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This is going to be hard to hear, but:
Bryan Adams released "Summer of '69" in 1985. A similar nostalgia-based song released now would be harkening back to the distant and bygone year of 2010.
@jsr bit Brit specific, but they mentioned on the radio the other day that the Maradona "Hand of God" moment was 40 years ago, which means that that day is now twice as far away as the England World Cup win of 1966 was then.
(I know nothing of football, but these things are weird archaeological monoliths in English culture).
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@jsr That is right; anyone who knows who Bryan Adams is probably has problem hearing most stuff these days.
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@jsr Marty McFly’s 1955 would be 1996.
@NotTheLBCGuy @jsr I guess then if we just say that Marty's 1855 is our 1896, I don't have to feel quite as old (I should mention this to my knees).
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@realSiegfried not his own experience.
Bryan was 10 years old in 1969, living in Beruit where his British father was a military attaché.
His agent and rock promoter Bruce Allen had matched Bryan up with a lyricist who was a decade older. He has said in interviews after he was free of that contractual relationship that he wasn’t always comfortable justifying songs that weren’t within his own experience.
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This is going to be hard to hear, but:
Bryan Adams released "Summer of '69" in 1985. A similar nostalgia-based song released now would be harkening back to the distant and bygone year of 2010.
@jsr Summer of 2010? Yeah, that'd be good. Back when it felt like things were looking up.
Back when it felt like the USA's institutions were proving resilient and fixing things.
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@coffeemug @jsr True! He was a rocker, but just barely.
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@jsr I mean… right now, I very much want 2010–2015 back. Those few precious years were we thought intolerance was dead. No Trump in the White House, no Ukraine War; Germany, France, and UK didn't have neonazi parties dominating the elections, trans rights were making unprecedented progress and the massive misinformation campaigns weren't yet on the horizon, we got Obergefell v Hodges, Musk was just a cunt with a car company and GPTs were still cool nerd stuff and not world-destroying climate crisis engines yet…
Life was good in 2010, compared to today. I'd listen to a 2010 nostalgia song.
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This is going to be hard to hear, but:
Bryan Adams released "Summer of '69" in 1985. A similar nostalgia-based song released now would be harkening back to the distant and bygone year of 2010.
@jsr Bryan Adams having been born in 1959, the similar nostalgia-based song about 2010 would be written by someone born in 2000.
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This is going to be hard to hear, but:
Bryan Adams released "Summer of '69" in 1985. A similar nostalgia-based song released now would be harkening back to the distant and bygone year of 2010.
@jsr that song is explicitly not about 1969, it's just a dumb sex joke. Bryan Adams was a little kid in 1969 lol
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This is going to be hard to hear, but:
Bryan Adams released "Summer of '69" in 1985. A similar nostalgia-based song released now would be harkening back to the distant and bygone year of 2010.
@jsr in 1969 Bryan Adams was 10. Twas all a lie anyway
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This is going to be hard to hear, but:
Bryan Adams released "Summer of '69" in 1985. A similar nostalgia-based song released now would be harkening back to the distant and bygone year of 2010.
@jsr and the song writer would have been born in 2001...
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This is going to be hard to hear, but:
Bryan Adams released "Summer of '69" in 1985. A similar nostalgia-based song released now would be harkening back to the distant and bygone year of 2010.
Good grief ye weren't pulling yer punches
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@jsr @matthewskelton The very first album I ever bought was The Number Of The Beast by Iron Maiden in 1982. That’s 44 years ago.
Thanks for making me feel very old
@thirstybear @jsr @matthewskelton Hah, you too. Only it was “Killers” for me. And then a few years back, all the hubbub of “Killers” turns 40 this year! … uhh, no it doesn’t, it came out in … Damn! 🤯
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@jsr Happy Days first aired in 1974 and depicted life in 1955.
If it were made in 2026, it would be set in 2007.
I'm not sure I'm ready to feel nostalgic about the Great Recession with the housing market collapse, surge of the Iraq war, George Bush, pushing $100/barrel oil, VA Tech shooting, etc.
Maybe I could get nostalgic about Spiderman 3 getting record sales on opening day and the first iPhone being released? Probably not.
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This is going to be hard to hear, but:
Bryan Adams released "Summer of '69" in 1985. A similar nostalgia-based song released now would be harkening back to the distant and bygone year of 2010.
@jsr I was an naïve, anxious, indebted, struggling student living off bread and eggs and struggling to make rent. I don't really miss 2010 that much
.I would hug my uncles tightly and visit them more while they were still around.
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@coffeemug @jsr True! He was a rocker, but just barely.
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You've got the lyrics. Next work on the melody...
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This is going to be hard to hear, but:
Bryan Adams released "Summer of '69" in 1985. A similar nostalgia-based song released now would be harkening back to the distant and bygone year of 2010.
@jsr Except the Summer of 69 wasn't about 1969, it was about a nonenumerated summer of nymphomania. For all we knew he was singing about 1984.
