21st Century Odd Couple
I was 20 years old and had just dropped out of college when Alice Cooper’s “School’s Out for Summer” was a hit. You have to love a song whose lyrics include “We can’t even think of a word that rhymes.” I could definitely identify.
Now, as school winds down for this year, I identify in a different way.
It’s time for my kids to perform the musical numbers their bands have been working on. There are parties and it’s time to catch up on the various odds and ends. It elevates a hectic schedule of driving and attending by a magnitude (which is why I haven’t written anything in the past few days.)
But good old Vincent Fournier – the man who created and portrays Alice Cooper and (with the help of the Amazing James Randi transformed stage illusions into rock and roll mayhem) – still represented a link to my own youth.
But wait!
Now Ke$ha and Alice have a common theme song in “School”?
(If you don’t know who Ke$ha is, ask you children, grandchildren, or a neighborhood teenager.)
Does this mean that my kids and I share a common musical anthem?
Heh heh heh.
As Alice sang, “Welcome to My Nightmare.”
Enjoy, kids. Before you know it, you’ll be hearing YOUR kids’ version of “School!”
Heh heh heh.
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