Space Oddity

Throughout the years, my spouse and I will often comment to each other that we believe our son thinks we are both dumb. Like we've-never-been-on-the-internet-dumb, never-had-a-job-dumb, never-been-to-college-dumb. It boggles the mind.

My son is one of those annoying young adults who thinks his musical taste is more advanced than everyone else's because he doesn't listen to the radio (like say, his parents!) One of his favorite bands in high school was MGMT. Now, I actually love one (and only one) of their songs (the only one that ever got airplay! ha!) In attempting to engage my son in conversation, I asked him if MGMT stood for 'Management.' You would have thought I told him I was not his mother. His jaw dropped to the floor. "How did YOU know THAT?"

Um.....well, since I was an MGMT major in college? I also know what HIST, CHEM, and CIS stand for.

One of my son's suitemates is into music. The kind of kid who brings a record player and a couple of crates of albums to college and expects it to fit into a dorm room. Suddenly, my husband's albums aren't so bourgeoisie after all. Anyone know what ELO stands for??

Over the weekend, my son mentions on the phone that he likes David Bowie and do I know any David Bowie songs?

Nope! In the 1970's, I was just sitting in a tin can, far above the world.

smh (using it, because I know what it means!)

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  1. Mary KirklandOctober 5, 2015 at 6:48 PM

    ELO= Electric Light Orchestra. I found out about them when I was about 20 years old from a friend who had their tape. Yes, tape. lol

    My daughter is 24 years old and I know the feeling. I think kids really don't realize that we've been there done that and know so much more than they think we do. That is until they get older and their kid looks at them the way they used to look at us and then they get it.

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    1. BijouxOctober 5, 2015 at 8:33 PM

      I'm so glad someone can relate. I also love when he tells me I don't know anything about dating 'nowadays.'

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  2. Pat HattOctober 5, 2015 at 7:24 PM

    lol but it is so fun to pick and act like parents don't know anything.

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  3. joehOctober 5, 2015 at 7:29 PM

    You lost me with half of this, so I would not dissapoint your son.

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    1. BijouxOctober 5, 2015 at 8:34 PM

      I'm very music and Internet savvy, unbeknownst to my son.

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  4. Pixel PeeperOctober 5, 2015 at 9:13 PM

    My son graduated with a degree in computer engineering, so there are times when we ask him computer "stuff." If he ever makes a face...or even just starts to make a face...about our ignorance, I remind him that I taught him how to use a spoon. Ha!

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    1. BijouxOctober 6, 2015 at 7:51 AM

      That's funny! That was my son's major, but he switched after three semesters of it. I got a lot of eye rolls when I tried to talk coding with him!

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  5. Rob KOctober 5, 2015 at 9:25 PM

    LMAO! Your son got quite a jolt when you laid the MGMT on him.

    I remember how I used to think my parents were out of it when they complained about the Beatles and the Stones. Naturally I hated their music, too, but now I've grown to love Tony Bennett, Frank Sinatra and all the big band music. My folks must be laughing up in Heaven.

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    1. BijouxOctober 6, 2015 at 7:53 AM

      My parents hated my music......Talking Heads and the like. But we only had Christmas albums growing up, so they weren't much into any music.

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  6. CraigOctober 5, 2015 at 10:05 PM

    And I'm pretty sure he thinks you're WAY too unhip to be having sex, too. . .

    Most all of my kids love the Beatles' music.

    (*sniffle*)

    I'm so proud. . .

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    1. BijouxOctober 6, 2015 at 7:55 AM

      My daughters pick and choose amongst my music. They love Fleetwood Mac and BNL.

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  7. bettyOctober 5, 2015 at 11:21 PM

    Wait a few years and suddenly you'll be smarter in your son's eyes. I heard young men's brains needed until they were 25 years old to finally fully mature. I did see a vast difference in my intelligence in the eyes of our son after he turned 25 :)

    betty

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    1. BijouxOctober 6, 2015 at 7:57 AM

      I'm hoping that's true and I look forward to it. Funny thing is, he also thinks his 25 YO sister knows nothing!

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  8. BlogorattiOctober 6, 2015 at 8:37 AM

    It always seem like parents know little. They've been there and done that, sigh.

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  9. AnonymousOctober 6, 2015 at 9:48 AM

    My son seemingly thinks he is the brightest person in the house.
    I have ELO on my shuffle. Use to love ELO long ago.

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  10. AnonymousOctober 6, 2015 at 1:02 PM

    It's Hip to be Square ....

    ... unlike, you know, ELO ... ;-)

    Pretty sure Bowie was WAY before my time!

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    1. BijouxOctober 6, 2015 at 1:30 PM

      So you missed the whole Let's Dance and China Girl videos when we were in college?

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    3. AnonymousOctober 8, 2015 at 2:34 PM

      Um, well, yeah. Were they any good?

      You had to have MTV which meant you had to have cable which, um, I couldn't afford. So I missed all of that video stuff. That's OK though, I was probably working, studying, or sleeping while it played anyhow ;-)

      Honestly, by the time we had 'enough' cable to include MTV it was somewhere around the Millennium when half the videos bordered on soft porn so it never really caught on for us.

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    4. AnonymousOctober 8, 2015 at 2:37 PM

      Then again, if that China Girl video launched these days he'd be hammered for its overt political incorrectness ....

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  11. nickOctober 6, 2015 at 1:18 PM

    I seem to remember being much the same when I was a teenager, quite sure I was much wiser than my ignorant parents. What teenagers think of me now I'm an oldie, I don't really know because I don't have much to do with teenagers. All I can say is I'm exploring new stuff all the time and there's no way I'm living in some nostalgic past era. I know what smh and all those net abbreviations mean. I know what MGMT and CIS mean. I could go on.

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  12. Blue GrumpsterOctober 6, 2015 at 5:15 PM

    In the end no one knows anything ;)

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    1. BijouxOctober 6, 2015 at 7:05 PM

      For a minute, I thought you were going to quote a Linkin Park song. Because yes, I'm quite familiar with them.

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    2. Blue GrumpsterOctober 10, 2015 at 2:25 PM

      Click!

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  13. JocelynOctober 7, 2015 at 1:25 AM

    SO FUNNY! I was just complaining tonight to my husband about a young college student in our lives who is just so, welllllll, YOUNG.

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  14. TBMOctober 7, 2015 at 10:10 AM

    David Bowie ... yeah I think I know him :) Your son would love to make fun of me, the music moron. I spend more time reading books.

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    1. BijouxOctober 7, 2015 at 3:27 PM

      I only listen to music in the car, but I do spend lots of time driving.

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  15. sageOctober 9, 2015 at 1:09 PM

    Each generation leaves the last one behind. My left my parents on the AM band when we headed over to the Album stations on FM that played the "good rock and roll" and NO country.

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    1. BijouxOctober 9, 2015 at 3:02 PM

      Ha! I remember when AM was where you could hear rock and FM was just easy listening. Changed over about mid-70's.

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  16. Denise Covey October 12, 2015 at 8:52 PM

    Funny how each generation thinks they know everything and the previous gens know nothing. I love how the music of my youth just keeps on keeping on and those aging rockers keep on travelling!

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  17. AbbyOctober 13, 2015 at 2:55 AM

    Ugh! Hated meeting those people who thinks that their music is more advanced just because it's "underground". I did... however... I'm quite guilty of liking MGMT. Liked their music. hehe.

    xoxo,
    www.thefrugalblogger.net

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  18. Secret Agent WomanOctober 13, 2015 at 8:39 PM

    I was just singing that Bowie song yesterday.

    My kids assume I'm completely out of touch about both music and computers. And that's how I'm able to keep tabs on my younger son's twitter account.

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    1. BijouxOctober 14, 2015 at 9:09 AM

      LOL a million times on that! YES! I'm the same way about my son!!! Reddit, Instagram.....I've used them all to spy! Now who's the dumb one?

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  19. CrystalChickNovember 3, 2015 at 9:16 AM

    That's funny! My son is into some music I know nothing about… but I'm glad he likes some of our old favorites! I took him to see Rush for his 16th years ago, that was super cool.
    Hey, seriously… I have Changesbowie in my car cd player right now!

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    1. BijouxNovember 3, 2015 at 1:02 PM

      Bowie is timeless! We took all of our kids to a Fleetwood Mac show years ago. They loved it!

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