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Sesame Street: ABC Hip Hop with Miles

On the vid:

This seriously made me smile. Cutest Alphabet Song ever.

On Sesame Street:

Sometimes I wonder if the creators of Sesame Street REALLY created the show from a kid’s perspective or from their own. I was never really amused by the programme when I was a kid. I could never really identify with it. I thought Cookie Monster was inane (ya, kids aren’t THAT stupid, y’know?), but I wasn’t exactly smart enough to understand all the Bert and Ernie jokes (and certainly NOT the innuendo).

Now that I’m all grown up, I actually start youtubing Sesame Street vids to soak in nostalgia. Suddenly everything looks cute and makes me go awww… But I don’t think kids are looking to go “awww…”. And I doubt all the repetition really works on the kids anyways (Sesame Street must be the only show that features so many versions of the Alphabet Song. Anyways, back to whether the repetition works, the 4-year-old me tuned out after some time. And my impression of CM still hasn’t changed after all these years).

With all that rambling done, my take in short is that the creators of Sesame Street have forgotten what it really is like being a kid. For instance, the creation of CM is evidently an underestimation of children’s intelligence. But some parts of the show may just go over the kids’ heads (though it may also be a case of me being not so bright as a kid). Now that I’ve watched the programme again from The Other Side, I can’t help but conclude that it’s a programme that amuses adults, and adults in turn believe it amuses their children just because they themselves are amused.

Kids reading this, feel free to tell me I’m wrong.

I took the 43 Things Personality Quiz and found out I’m a
Self-Knowing Organized Lifelong Learner

Music Age Gauge

According to the Music Age Gauge, I am

49 years 1 month younger than Yoko Ono, age 75
40 years 10 months younger than Bob Dylan, age 67
38 years 8 months younger than Mick Jagger, age 65
37 years 0 months younger than Eric Clapton, age 63
33 years 10 months younger than Stevie Nicks, age 60
26 years 5 months younger than David Lee Roth, age 53
23 years 7 months younger than Madonna, age 50
20 years 1 month younger than Jon Bon Jovi, age 46
15 years 0 months younger than Billy Corgan, age 41
12 years 0 months younger than Mariah Carey, age 38
7 years 10 months younger than Alanis Morissette, age 34
0 years 4 months younger than Britney Spears, age 27

and when these songs were topping the charts and these events occurred, my age was:

The recording of We Are The World: 2
Walk Like an Egyptian, Bangles: 4
Didn’t We Almost Have It All, Whitney Houston: 5
Back In The U.S.S.R. is released exclusively in Russia: 6
Nothing Compares 2 U, Sinead O’Connor: 8
Emotions, Mariah Carey: 9
Fleetwood Mac perform at Bill Clinton’s inauguration: 10
The Sign, Ace Of Base: 11
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum opens: 13

These folks sure know how to make me feel better about my age. At least they didn’t say, “You are xx years older than Miley Cyrus.” Thanks man.

(And what? Mariah Carey’s only 38?!)