Caleb was requesting that we play U2's "All Because of You" (or as he and Noah call it, "Bullet Train") which is one of their personal favorites. But Brian had him hold off while we first listened to a song he wanted to play.
He proceeded to pull up "Where The Streets Have No Name."
That is one of those songs that takes me back to a moment in time. 1987. In a good way.
Let me back up. My family moved from one neighborhood to another in 1985. And I remember my dad telling me a big selling point of the new home was that we were going to have cable. I am pretty sure we got our first remote control then, too.
And when he first told me about this miraculous new thing called "cable" I vividly recall him telling me we would have an amazing new channel called MTV.
We moved. We got cable. We got MTV. And I discovered a whole new world. A world of makeup and image and packaging. A world of pop culture. My brother and I would come home from school each day and run to turn on the Video Countdown. And for what seemed like years on end, "Livin' on a Prayer" would be the video of the day and he and I would dance on the couches (yes, Mom, sorry, we did dance on the couches. But I am sure we were pretty cute in a preppy kids trying to dance like Bon Jovi kind of a way).
And then I discovered U2. And while I loved the "Thriller" video. And (clearly) danced for weeks on end to the "Livin' on a Prayer" video. One of the videos that I loved the most was "Where the Streets Have No Name."
Back in the car with the kids, I said:
Oh no you guys, this is a GREAT U2 song, and it had an ever better video.
Caleb shot back:
What's a video?
And as much as I wanted to tell myself that meant we are being great parents and limiting their exposure to too much junky TV...
And as much as I wanted to think that was just because kids call them something else today...
And as much as I wanted to believe he just misunderstood me...
I knew what it really meant.
We are old.
Ah well. It's still a great video.
