The End of the World as We Know It
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 ...
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CL
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