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2010, YouTube playlists comprised of 401 versions of songs entitled "Forever Young" in 17 languages. Album art in multimedia version (iPod or iPad) Attitude as monument. The height of nostalgia is the arch-median point away from an irrevocable past. Recent research has shown that the act of remembering a memory is not constant. The accuracy of words and ideas differs from the accuracy of images, as does the accuracy of each remembering of a memory. Thus, the memory becomes more real to the mind than the event experienced in situ; each recollection of the memory is its own varying event, augmenting the mental images and anchors, triangulating the percept with other recollections and subsequent experiences. After experiencing nostalgia, one gains the capacity to identify the future nostalgia. The threshold for identifying the incubating nostalgia results in moments of prolonged contrived euphoria in which any future endearment vanishes behind repeated declarations of the present import. Three songwriters that have contributed to the foiling of surreptitious nostalgia are Bob Dylan, Rod Stewart and Alphaville. Each song appeals to a different age group, descending respectively. But it was the mercenary 1980s Hollywood who disregarded the soundtrack sans vocals for lyrically-based emotions that sought to give a name to the coming of age. Alphaville's single fulfilled the zeitgeist. The result was a nation's entire generation swaying in unison through darkly-lit but chaperoned public school gymnasiums. Sweaty palms clasped to forming hips as heteronormativity was hormonally encouraged and yet supervised in a menagerie of frustration. The legion of cover-players--in 13 languages--documented on YouTube makes evident that elsewhere people clinged to the distancing past, and by doing so left the monumental unready. The soundtrack for the a ceremonial rite of passage would have to be the sound of silhouetted nostalgia-to-be. |