Pretending to like Cat Stevens is a crucial component in the development of any young person's pretend interests. Not only does his music offer a sophisticated, refreshing contrast to the uniform beat that seems to be dominating the itunes charts these days, but his lyrics also have meaning. The concept of meaningful lyrics, generally unbeknownst to the current generation of us young people, is an interesting concept that we all like to embrace because it means that we're cultured.
Cat Stevens' music isn't necessarily related to the Beatles, the Stones, the Who, or any other older musical group beginning with "the" that you pretend to know much more about than you actually do. In that sense, he's kind of like the indie equivalent of old people's music. Indie music, one of the pillars of false young people interests, was thus inadvertently founded by Cat Stevens.
More importantly, Cat Stevens has an very interesting story, one which we could all look up on Wikipedia for about 30 seconds and all become experts on, which will enable us to feel smarter to our peers in comparison when we tell said story at a pregame. The story will likely be a big hit due to everyone else's pretend like of Cat Stevens, even though there's a good chance that like you, everyone else only knows two of his songs, Cat's in the Cradle and Wild World.
This knowledge of Cat Stevens music is important for two reasons. One, because it coincides with young people's pastime of only actually knowing 2-4 songs per artist but pretending to like the entire album anyway. Two, because the young person's original affinity for Cat Steven's may have derived from the Season 1 finale of Skins, during which Wild World was played.
Despite that version not actually being by Cat Stevens, we sometimes pretend it is by Cat Stevens because it is a name we have once heard of, and gives the song significantly more meaning because Cat Stevens sounds like an artist that intellectuals used to listen to, which thus makes the show Skins intellectual, despite what all the critics say. Then again, the critics represent the man, the perpetual Voldemort to the young person's Harry Potter, so whatever they say is never to be taken seriously anyway.
We sympathize with Cat Steven's because his narrative of abandoning his self-identity, changing his name to Yusuf Islam, and being denied entrance into the United States after being (mistakenly) put on the terrorist watch list (we conveniently tend to forget that part because it makes for a better story) has strong parallels with "being disillusioned with society, man", an all-time favorite story for young people to tell.
Although Cat Steven's music is the type that can grow on you, especially when reminded of hit teen dramas, a young persons affinity for Cat Steven's is always exaggerated. Given the chance, the young person will likely respond that they "love Cat Stevens," as opposed to saying "I only know a few of his songs, but I like listening to them when I'm in a certain mood." This is again important to note because it is comparable to the young person's pastime of prematurely falling in love and/or saying they love someone without really meaning it even though they think they do.
Oh yea. It doesn't hurt that his name sounds cool.
Cat Stevens' music isn't necessarily related to the Beatles, the Stones, the Who, or any other older musical group beginning with "the" that you pretend to know much more about than you actually do. In that sense, he's kind of like the indie equivalent of old people's music. Indie music, one of the pillars of false young people interests, was thus inadvertently founded by Cat Stevens.
More importantly, Cat Stevens has an very interesting story, one which we could all look up on Wikipedia for about 30 seconds and all become experts on, which will enable us to feel smarter to our peers in comparison when we tell said story at a pregame. The story will likely be a big hit due to everyone else's pretend like of Cat Stevens, even though there's a good chance that like you, everyone else only knows two of his songs, Cat's in the Cradle and Wild World.
This knowledge of Cat Stevens music is important for two reasons. One, because it coincides with young people's pastime of only actually knowing 2-4 songs per artist but pretending to like the entire album anyway. Two, because the young person's original affinity for Cat Steven's may have derived from the Season 1 finale of Skins, during which Wild World was played.
Despite that version not actually being by Cat Stevens, we sometimes pretend it is by Cat Stevens because it is a name we have once heard of, and gives the song significantly more meaning because Cat Stevens sounds like an artist that intellectuals used to listen to, which thus makes the show Skins intellectual, despite what all the critics say. Then again, the critics represent the man, the perpetual Voldemort to the young person's Harry Potter, so whatever they say is never to be taken seriously anyway.
We sympathize with Cat Steven's because his narrative of abandoning his self-identity, changing his name to Yusuf Islam, and being denied entrance into the United States after being (mistakenly) put on the terrorist watch list (we conveniently tend to forget that part because it makes for a better story) has strong parallels with "being disillusioned with society, man", an all-time favorite story for young people to tell.
Although Cat Steven's music is the type that can grow on you, especially when reminded of hit teen dramas, a young persons affinity for Cat Steven's is always exaggerated. Given the chance, the young person will likely respond that they "love Cat Stevens," as opposed to saying "I only know a few of his songs, but I like listening to them when I'm in a certain mood." This is again important to note because it is comparable to the young person's pastime of prematurely falling in love and/or saying they love someone without really meaning it even though they think they do.
Oh yea. It doesn't hurt that his name sounds cool.
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