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My Gen X Playlist: Pop Musik – M (Robin Scott)

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Daily writing prompt
What was the last thing you searched for online? Why were you looking for it?
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My mom called the other day and asked if I wanted the old encyclopedia set. She couldn’t bring herself to throw it away because it still was in good condition. My thoughts drifted to Thomas Guide maps, foot thick phone books and Sunday newspapers. Searching for information used to be so different back in the day. Now a quick search for anything and everything is at our fingertips. I can’t imagine what the next iteration will be. It’s only a matter of time before internet searches are placed on the pile of forgotten encyclopedias and Thomas Guides. I’m in no rush, though. Technology sometimes travels a little too fast for me. I still haven’t figure out what TikTok is.

The last search I did was researching songs for these daily prompts. So I guess it’s appropriate to add M’s Pop Musik to the playlist. Released in 1979, Robin Scott’s use of technology was groundbreaking and later influenced other big name music artists.

Pop Muzik was also influential in the rise of electronica music. Scott’s use of electronic beats and synthesizers helped pave the way for other electronica artists such as Depeche Mode and Kraftwerk. The song’s use of technology in music production was ahead of its time and helped shape the music industry for years to come.

– OldTimeMusic

I guess there’s no stopping technology. It’s changing music and everything else and the increments are no longer baby steps, but leaps and bounds. I just have to make sure I’m on the train before it leaves the station. Nobody likes being the one left behind. I certainly don’t. Then maybe I should stop wasting my time figuring out this Tiktok thing. By the time I finally understand it, it will probably be yesterday’s news.

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Get up
Get down
(Pop, pop, pop muzik)
(Pop, pop, pop muzik)

Radio, video
Boogie with a suitcase
You're livin' in a disco
Forget about the rat race
Let's do the milkshake
Sellin' like a hotcake
Try some, buy some
Fee-fi-fo-fum

Talk about, pop muzik
Talk about, pop muzik
(Talk about pop muzik)
(Talk about pop muzik)
(Pop, pop, pop muzik)
(Pop, pop, pop muzik)

I wanna dedicate it
(Pop, pop shoo wop)
Everybody made it
(Shoobie doobie do wop)
Infiltrate it
(Pop, pop shoo wop)
Activate it

New York, London, Paris, Munich
Everybody talk about pop muzik
Talk about, pop muzik
Talk about, pop muzik
(Pop, pop, pop muzik)
(Pop, pop, pop muzik)

Singing in the subway
Shuffle with a shoe shine
MIx me a Molotov
I'm on the headline
Wanna be a gun slinger?
Don't be a rock singer
Eenie, meenie, miney, moe
Which a-way you wanna go?

Talk about, pop muzik
Talk about, pop muzik

Lyin' in the street
(Pop, pop shoo wop)
Eeny meeny
(Shoobie doobie do wop)
Lyin' in the street
(Pop, pop shoo wop)
You know what I mean
Hit it!

Now you know what to say

Talk about, pop muzik
(Pop, pop, pop muzik)
Talk about, pop muzik
(Pop, pop, pop muzik)
(Pop, pop, pop muzik)

All around the world, wherever you are
Dance in the street anything you like
Do it in your car in the middle of the night
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la
La, la, la, la, la, la, la

Dance in the supermart
Dig it in the fast lane
Listen to the countdown
They're playin' our song again
I can't get "Jumping Jack"
I want to hold "Get Back"
Moonlight muzak
Knick knack patty whack
Talk about, pop muzik
Talk about, pop muzik

It's all around you
(Pop, pop shoo wop)
Gonna surround you
(Shoobie doobie do wop)
It's all around you
(Pop, pop shoo wop)

Hit it!

(Pop, pop, pop muzik)
(Pop, pop, pop muzik)

New York, London, Paris, Munich
Everybody talk about mmm - pop muzik

New York, London, Paris, Munich
Everybody talk about mmm - pop muzik
(Talk about, pop muzik)
Pop muzic
(Talk about, pop muzik)
(Pop, pop, pop muzik)
Pop muzic
(Pop, pop, pop muzik)
Pop muzic
Pop muzic
Now - listen!
Talk about
(Pop, pop, pop muzik)
Talk about
(Pop, pop, pop muzik)
Talk about
New York
(Pop, pop, pop muzik)
Pop muzic
(Pop, pop, pop muzik)
Pop muzic
New York, London, Paris, Munich
Everybody talk about mmm - pop muzik
Talk about
Pop muzic
(Pop, pop, pop muzik)
Pop muzic
(Pop, pop, pop muik)
Pop muzic
Now - listen
Talk about
(Pop, pop, pop muzik)
Talk about
(Pop, pop, pop muzik)
Talk about
New York
(Pop, pop, pop muzik)
Pop muzic
(Pop, pop, pop muzik)
Pop muzic
Do you read me - loud and clear?

15 thoughts on “My Gen X Playlist: Pop Musik – M (Robin Scott)”

  1. Avoid TikTok at all costs! It’s addicting! JK. Newspapers are great I always wanted to subscribe to the New York Times, and get the actual physical paper not the digital subscription.

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    1. My nieces and nephews get all their information from TikTok and it baffles me. Mind you, I’ve never really took time to dive in there… and I probably should just to see what the hype is about.

      I miss newspapers… Im thinking about at least subscribing to Sunday’s paper. I miss perusing with ink stained fingertips

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      1. I may take that idea and subscribe to Sunday’s paper only also! Make it a Sunday morning ritual. ☕️📰

        TikTok is useful in the sense that you get the information in real time and also experience the weird or dramatic or mundane moments of life from a first person perspective, depending on how that information is being shared, but there is A LOT of misinformation out there. And a lot of silly dancing routines. Haha It’s entertaining, but I think it’s definitely having a strange effect on the collective psyche. I’m thinking of giving up social media for 30 days and seeing what happens.

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  5. Lol encyclopedias 😄 … dictionaries… Dewey decimal system 😄😄 … actual maps 🗺️

    Lol times have changed

    That song was a blast from the past ❤️

    Reminds me when MTV was still music television and we had VH1 (I loved Pop Up Video ❤️👏)

    Ahhhh those were the days ❤️

    Some stuff like the Dewey decimal can be gone lol … and I do like GPS except when you lose signal and get lost anyway lol

    … when I was VERY little – before cable even existed … I remember UHF and being the remote lol … that dial would hurt my little fingers lol

    Oh and rabbit ears 🙄😬 … oh wait – I see something lol – hold it right there 😄

    I also remember if you stay up too late and make it to midnight – they played the national anthem and then you got snow 😐

    Also … we did not have a plethora of cartoons like they do now! I had before school cartoons on PBS or something … and Saturday morning cartoons – that’s it

    I loved Merlin and Simon ❤️

    Lawn darts lol 😄

    Ahhh they really were the glory days – we had awesome moments and so funny to think back ❤️

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  6. TikTok can be pretty addictive. I go through bursts with it, where I’m on a lot and then I can’t stand it. It gets … too drama-y for me, or I find I’m getting the same topic over and over. At the same time, I learn a lot from it.

    I’m curious what comes next. Xanga, LiveJournal, MySpace, Facebook, all this stuff keeps evolving.

    And it’s funny you mention newspapers, I was wondering if I can get a Sunday paper to get coupons again, and read the comics 🤣 I’m trying to save on these grocery bills. I was wondering if I added regular coupons to digital… if maybe I’d save here or there. The amount of times, however, I’d clip coupons and forget the book… I just doubt that it would be better now 🤣

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    1. The general consensus is keep a little distance from TikTok before it sucks you in. I think I’ll take that wise advice!

      I did see that I can subscribe to Sundays only. My fear is that it begins to show up at my door and remain tied as I drop it in my recycling bin. Maybe I’ll occasionally go to Starbucks and pick up a paper at the same time and enjoy it there. We’ll see. Just a thought for you, as well. Sunday comics… miss those, too!

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