At ten years old we’re all pretty
impressionable. It’s when we finally take that step outside the culture given to by our parents and
start creating our very own cultural identity. It’s also where we start getting
lured into embarrassing fads that will haunt us for the rest of our lives. But really it’s
an amazing time, we get our first celebrity crushes (even though we have no
idea what to do with them), we start going to the movies with our friends
rather than our parents and we purchase CD’s (iTunes downloads now I guess). These early tastes
are important, they affect how we interact with culture from that moment on, so
why is that we are so quick to dismiss our tween loves and childish.
In honour of all our early
introductions to popular culture today I am going to share with you one of the
many loves I found at the age of ten that have stuck with me throughout the
years. That is, of course my love for
Hanson. Yes, that band of ridiculously
young boys from Tulsa that wrote one of the best pop songs ever, “MMMBop”.
Don’t pretend you don’t remember that song,
even if you weren’t at such an impressionable age as I was when it was
released. It’s catchy as all hell and I love it, even if I am still trying to
work out what exactly an MMMBop is (I think it’s a measurement of time).
