![]() (Turns out, we were Twitter before Twitter was Twitter.) In a far less innocent example, politicians often go through great lengths to be photographed and seen at “down to earth” restaurants or with hashtag-relatable foods.)Īnd as we wade through a time where links between sports and other significant cultural phenomena–like, oh, I don’t know, politics–are refuted by some and desperately made clear by others in an unending tug of war, the interest in finding where society’s most meaningful spheres intersect is amplified because it tells us about both. Pick two at random, like employment and food: When I was little and helped my mom at the snack bar at my brother’s baseball games, the other kids and I were each allotted a hot dog, and we’d argue over the correct toppings. Heck, there exists a link between almost any two spheres that humans engage. There exists a strong link between almost all cultural phenomena and even our most mundane tasks. But the insufferable part of high school me couldn’t connect an understanding of the way music was so inextricably linked to the fabric of people to the way high schoolers clung to pop bands or a tween connection to My Chemical Romance.īut I was wrong, obviously. ![]() I even got it when the classmate was a musician. This isn’t to say that I don’t love curating playlists and it’s not to say that I haven’t marveled at and coveted the way Whitney Houston could put passion into her incredible vocals. In school, when teachers would have students answer basic questions on the first day of class as an icebreaker, I rolled my eyes probably harder than I needed to when an answer to “What couldn’t you live without?” would be “Music.” A good song at the ballpark can be really uplifting.
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