No, I’m not talking about a classic car from the online auction.  And NO, I didn’t get the Cadillac limo bought either.  I had the bid during extended bidding.  But this sale was closing during class.  A student asked me a question and I lost my focus.  I turned back to check the bidding and it was CLOSED!!!  

       Meanwhile in a different class period, I was trying to teach a class of 8th grade girls how to use gestures while speaking.  I told them that gestures need to emphasize while still looking natural.  Not robotic and don’t look like you are moving to the beat of some crappy song like the ‘Macarena’.  A couple of them looked at me odd. 

       I said, “I’m sorry.  That song is way before you all’s time.  You don’t have a clue what I’m talking about.”

       One of them said, “Uhhh, you mean the dance that goes like this?” 

       At this point, eleven 8th grade girls were now doing the Macarena.  No music playing, they were just humming and dancing.  

       In 1996, I had served as a senior class sponsor for a senior trip that went to Peurto Vallarta.  There was this damn song that played the whole time we were there.  I was glad to leave Mexico and that song behind.  On the plane ride home, I made the comment, “I’m glad to be going home so I don’t have to hear that song again.”  A month or so later, the ‘Macarena’ had found it’s way to America.  And then it was everywhere.  Still is.  If a group of 14 year olds in Shattuck, OK know this song and dance in 2021, I guess it is a timeless classic.  

       Think of some other timeless classics.  They were hits yet they weren’t very good.  Sometimes you hear them and they transport you back in time.  

      For me, 1985 had some really crappy songs that I will still listen to when they come on the 80’s on 8 xm channel.  ‘Rock Me Amadeus’ by Falco and ‘I wanna be a cowboy’ by some damn band that I would have to look up.  

      1990 brought us ‘Achy Breaky Heart’ by Billy Ray Cyrus.  Which he in turn gifted us with Miley Cyrus that brought us another generation of crappy songs.  

       Older you say.  Okay.  How about ‘Afternoon Delight’ by THE Starland Vocal band.  And ‘Kung Fu Fighting’ by Carl Lawerence.  

     Newer.  ‘Baby Got Back’ by Sir Mix-A-Lot and THE timeless classic of ‘Ice, Ice Baby’ by Vanilla Ice.  

And NO matter the age of the person, all of us know ‘Y.M.C.A.’ by the Village People.  

      Have fun reminiscing some crappy tunes by below average artists that we all remember.  And maybe think back to that random showman and animal that NOBODY expected to win a show, yet they did.  What’s the saying?  Even the sun shines on a dog’s ass on some days.  Regardless of industry, the sun shines somewhere.