One of the best moments I remember having was when I was in a shitty local McDonald's late at night and I Want It That Way started playing.
It was great because most people who were around were just kind of lowkey having that shit moment when you know you're eating garbage because you're too tired or depressed, and then this absolute banger from the 90's starts playing in the background and all of a sudden we all had a quiet shared moment where we were taken back to simpler times when we were teenagers too embarrassed to admit that this song was actually really good.
Nobody said anything, but I could feel this shared moment, this energy where everybody was just kind of throwing knowing looks around, half-smiling, as if we were all saying to each other "damn, this song was actually really good after all, wasn't it?" I can't quite explain, but I felt a weirdly deep connection to everybody who was there, at that particular moment in time. It's like if spontaneity weren't so taboo, if we weren't always meant to mind our own respective businesses, everybody would probably start singing that song together, because it meant something different to each one of us, but we all had something to say about it.
It's weird that one of my favorite moments ever was inside a fucking McDonald's of all places, but I had never experienced such a shared moment with total strangers, and haven't ever since. "Lightning in a bottle" moment, for sure.
yeah I got some weird nostalgia for songs I liked but wasn't really into back in the day. I wonder what the boomermification of milliniels will be :thinkin-lenin:
One of the best moments I remember having was when I was in a shitty local McDonald's late at night and I Want It That Way started playing.
It was great because most people who were around were just kind of lowkey having that shit moment when you know you're eating garbage because you're too tired or depressed, and then this absolute banger from the 90's starts playing in the background and all of a sudden we all had a quiet shared moment where we were taken back to simpler times when we were teenagers too embarrassed to admit that this song was actually really good.
Nobody said anything, but I could feel this shared moment, this energy where everybody was just kind of throwing knowing looks around, half-smiling, as if we were all saying to each other "damn, this song was actually really good after all, wasn't it?" I can't quite explain, but I felt a weirdly deep connection to everybody who was there, at that particular moment in time. It's like if spontaneity weren't so taboo, if we weren't always meant to mind our own respective businesses, everybody would probably start singing that song together, because it meant something different to each one of us, but we all had something to say about it.
It's weird that one of my favorite moments ever was inside a fucking McDonald's of all places, but I had never experienced such a shared moment with total strangers, and haven't ever since. "Lightning in a bottle" moment, for sure.
yeah I got some weird nostalgia for songs I liked but wasn't really into back in the day. I wonder what the boomermification of milliniels will be :thinkin-lenin:
we need like a woman version of the lenin thinking emoji
Rosa Thinking?
smiling like a goddamn idiot reading your comment, and in a mcdonalds to top it off :comfy: