The whole video consists of this rather adorable but undeniably middle-aged woman
surfing in high-waisted board shorts, gyrating awkwardly in a quasi-muumuu, and generally making something of an ass of herself. The song was irritating enough, with it's 'All I want to do-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo!' (seriously, it goes on waaaaaaay longer than you think it's going to), but the video could have been much less painful if they hadn't been trying to paint her as a sexy teen. Sexy 40-year-old is totally do-able. Basically, what I'm saying here is, that song is still stuck in my head, and I've eaten too much, and now I'm cranky. Stop making crappy videos, people.
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Eff... I was intrigued at the thought of how exactly a forty year old woman could pretend to be, well, anything else...so I clicked the sight. Again: eff. That was the dumbest thirty seconds of my life EVER.
Yeah but what movie did you go see?
I wasn't at all interested in checking out the link until I read Hannah's comment and then I just HAD to see it!
Hannah, I concur.
I'm going to have that stupid song in my head for the rest of the day! RUDE!
Thanks for nothing Raych.
September
At first I was all, "MWAHAHA!! I am IMMUNE to your silly songs!"
Because at first the song didn't get stuck in my head, but what am I singing in my head? All I want to do-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo!
Curses!
So I watched the video, and certainly agree with the chorus, but the 'undeniably middle-aged' caught me up. At first I was doing with it, because I couldn't really see her well, especially with her on the surfboard, but then the close-up kinda of threw me. I was like, is she really that old?
Turns out, she was born in '74. And while I'd call 68 a bit on the untimely side of death, it's not an ureasonable assertion.
All of which is to say: fuck. I've only got 3 and a 1/2 years to get cracking on my mid-life crisis?
Because there's just no way I'm going to be able to afford a Porsche by then.
(even worse: have I passed the whole 'young writer to watch' age? I'll be in my mid-thirties before my debut novel. That can't be cool at all. I'll never make Granta's five under 35 list!
-Wait. Is this my mid-life crisis already? You saw it here first, folks, and you have Raych to thank)
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