Pete Shelley is 51

January 17, 2007 7:34 PM | | Comments (344) | TrackBacks (0)

...and anyone over 50 can join the AARP. That didn't stop me from nearly falling off of the couch when I heard one of his band's songs in an AARP ad:

Now approaching 50 itself, AARP is heading off a midlife crisis with a new TV ad that celebrates the aging process to the strains of the Buzzcocks' classic punk song "Everybody's Happy Nowadays."

Depending on the size of the ad buy, there exists the risk that "Everybody's Happy Nowadays" is going to become "that song from the AARP ad" in the same way that the Kinks' "Picture Book" has become "that song from the HP photo printers ad."

A message to my (possible) teenage readers: This just goes to prove that you should never get into any band (or fashion trend, for that matter) just because you want to be cool. Eventually, everything will become mainstream, commercialized and otherwise ruined for poseur purposes. Such is the way of the world.

Let's not end today's blogging with such a sad note. Here's some Buzzcocks, from back before I was born:

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