Car full of jocks all know lyrics to Sugar Hill Gang in 1980?
LOVED the movie but this scene is a bit of BS. Rapper's Delight got to like 36 on the Billboard cart in 1980. Not many people knew it all that much at the time.
We played that song every day in our football locker room when it first came out in 1980 and I'm from Canada
shareI'm from Canada as well and, as I pointed out in another thread, creeps like these not only would not know the lyrics to this song, they would beat up anyone who liked this kind of music. Hip hop / R & B is mainstream today, but it was not then, sorry.
share> creeps like these not only would not know the lyrics to this song, they would beat up anyone who liked this kind of music.
One of the big themes in the movie was people trying on different sub-cultures to see if they 'fit.' That whole "frontiers are where you find them" thing. Just as they were aware of punk it makes sense that they would also be familiar with a top song of another genre. You can choose to disbelieve that, but in so doing you are turning away from what the director is trying to tell you.
Ha ha! I don't need "the director" to "tell" me anything: life is not the movies and any lessons you may believe you have learned from the way fictional characters act are useless. Again, I lived through this period. Also, I have been to university. So, I have real life experience, which trumps one man's idealistic fictional fantasy every time.
shareThis was loosely based on Linklater's own experience in that era in that area. So just because your experience was different doesn't make the jocks singing "Rappers Delights" non-believable.
share...this scene is a bit of BS. Rapper's Delight got to like 36 on the Billboard cart in 1980. Not many people knew it all that much at the time.
Really? I was around in 1980 but still in grade school. If you say it was going on, then I believe you.
My initial feeling was that it was really out of place. Possible? Of course. Just not very likely for this demographic of this era.
That is cool that the white guys are talking about rap. I made a stupid film like dazed in confused with a future white rapper during the end of high school and there was a scene where the kids talked about snakes on a plane like geeky whites.
shareMaybe it was "their" song. This actually happened with my friends at the time. A favorite song would be played over and over until everyone knew the lyrics.
shareThis exactly. For my group of friends, it was "Bohemian Rhapsody" after Wayne's World came out, as well as "November Rain." Long songs. Knew every word. Everyone did.
share[deleted]
That's probably WHY they knew it. Something really "out there" that they felt made them "hip".
shareThe song came out in 1979, so they had a year to learn the lyrics.
share