In the September 2003 issue of Speakeasy, the magazine reports on its survey that sought to examine the differences among the generations in its readership and to determine if one or more generation gaps really exist. A handy table condensed some of the highlights:
| Graduated from High School In: | 1940s and 1950s | 1960s | 1970s | 1980s | 1990s | 2000s |
| When you crooned behind your closed bedroom door in high school, which singer did you most often imitate? | Elvis Presley | Joan Baez The Motown Sound |
Joni Mitchell Carole King Paul McCartney |
Johnny Cash Prince |
Tori Amos Madonna |
Ani DiFanco |
Ani DiFanco? It’s just a typo, I know, because a later cell of the table (most important album from high school) spells her name right (while getting the name of her album Little Plastic Castles wrong). But jeez, it sort of proves the generational gap, wot, that they couldn’t tell at a glance the misspelling?
Or perhaps I am the only one who straddles the generational gaps like a gymnastically-inclined squid.
To celebrate, I switched from the AM oldies station today and put on some Vag Rock. I’m I am not a pretty girl…. that is not what I do…. I ain’t no damsel in distess….. and I don’t need to be rescued….
Yeah!
