The shock ... the horror ... I was doing the evening meal shopping at 
the local Kasumi (part of Aeon Group, but what isn't nowadays) and the 
muzak was a synthesizer version of "American Girl" (originally done by 
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers).  I caught myself singing along and the 
new manager asked me if I knew any of the other songs on the "rock" 
muzak track that'd been playing.  The song mentioned was followed by an 
instrumental version of "Turning Japanese" during which the manager said 
he'd always liked that song because it reminded him when Japan was an 
economic leader and everyone wanted to come here and become Japanese.  I 
didn't have the heart to tell him what the words actually meant ...

-- 
CL