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3 6 h Youth Culture 4 Most readers will know what In the first 45 seconds of the Thrift Shopping seven words to substitute for the song there are 12 substitutions of Have you noticed that young underlined words to get the four-letter words. people are shopping at thrift explicit version you would get More of is on its stores lately? Is it the recession? online. No, it's a youth culture fad that is way up the music charts. His driven in part by the world's I’m gonna pop some tags, song is simply same- number one song: , by More American teens listen to only got twenty dollars in my pocket. sex marriage propaganda. It is Macklemore and Ryan. music through YouTube than I-I-I'm hunting, looking for a come up, profoundly anti-church through any other source (64%). this is effing awesome. The song illustrates the speaker's (Macklemore was raised interest in buying cheap clothing Radio (56%), iTunes (53% ), and CDs Walk in the club like, "What up?" Catholic). Needless to say, his from thrift shops and his disdain (50%) are next most used I got a big {censored on radio }? biblical references in the song for current designer labels. He according to a Nielsen study of Nah, I’m just pumped, are also a bit off. sings about donning "your music consumption in the United I bought some stuff from the thrift shop. grampa's clothes" and buying States, the Music 360. Ice on the fringe is so dang frosty. things that cost just 99 cents. This week Billboard Magazine's Hot People like, “Dang, 100, the 55-year-old singles chart, that’s a cold {censored on radio } honkey.” takes an evolutionary step by Rolling in so deep, headed to the mezzanine incorporating YouTube plays into dressed in all pink except my gator shoes, Thrift its formula. those are green. Shop It is worth noting that what you Draped in a leopard mink, hear on the radio is not the same girl standing next to me. Chic as what you hear on YouTube, Probably shoulda washed this, iTunes or online music services smells like R.Kelly's sheets, psssss such as Pandora or Spotify. Broad- But { censored on radio } it was 99 cents, cast radio is censored, the internet bag it, cop (steal) it, wash it. Macklemore decries rappers who isn't. The YouTube versions often Bout to go and get some compliments. talk about how much money they use wording that is inappropriate Passin' up on those moccasins blow. This song says the to cite in this newsletter. someone else has been walkin' in, opposite: spend as little as Let's take the current number one bummy and grungy, { censored on radio } Macklemore campaigned in his possible and still look "fresh." song in the world – Thrift Shop, by I am stuntin' and flossin'. home state of Washington for What is more fresh than setting Macklemore and Ryan. Below are Saving my money and I’m so happy passing Referendum 74: your own fashion? the censored-over-the-radio lyrics. That’s a bargain girl ! legalizing same-sex marriage. The referendum passed. teachers, television, radio, sports, eleven – what was that to them? said, pointing to his brain space. You talkin' to me? iPod, www.everything.com-org- Or King Tut. Never heard of him. "Actually I am 400% here." He (This is just a bit of fiction for a net, dot everything. I pay attention They didn't even know that North pointed to the TV, his smart change of pace.) to them all. I totally pay attention." America or Marilyn Monroe even phone, the radio speakers, and his My son, Andy, is 24, going on 13, on "But your attention doesn't existed. What did they talk about? iPad. "TV, tunes, video game and Ritalin and going nowhere. last. You lose interest." I've been the center of attraction text war. I am firing on all since the minute I was born. Non- cylinders, 400% present." "Son!" I said looking right at "So? Moveon dot org! Surf the stop stimulation. What kid today him. He didn't respond. So I wave. Tune in, turn on, suck the "Except to anyone in the room." ever has to say, 'I'm bored.'" removed his headphones. "Andy!" system. It's working for me. "Not my problem. You just "Hey, dude..." Everyone out there knows about need to bid up. Look, I'm paying my addictivity center. They are all "You aren't paying attention!" attention to you again." trying to access it. That's great. As "Thanks." soon as they find it they work with me! 'Gimme, gimme, gimme,' I say, "I've got more brain-space left. and they do. They're there for me. Eventually someone will figure out I am the center of attraction. I am how to access it. Until then it's the star. Maybe you make it into suck the system and when that the news, maybe you don't. The isn't producing for ya suck the "Attracted? More like addicted." point is, I count. Everybody out bottle, " Andy grabbed his beer Andy didn't respond. there wants as much of me as they can, "It's how I was raised – suck a can get. If not for them I'd be "What? Sorry, I was thinking bottle, suck the system. It works nobody. I'd sit around all day and about something else. I guess I for me." do nothing. Nothing!" wasn't paying attention – well I didn't point out to him that actually, I was paying attention – was exactly what he had done all just not to you. Don't take it day – nothing. personally, Dad. I have nothing against you. You just aren't a killer "I am always doing something. app like Call of Duty or Judge Judy, My life moves. I am alive, in Facebook or Outlook. Killer apps constant motion, totally activated. grab your mind and won't let go, Thank God I didn't have to live in like a good teacher. They know 1131. Did anything happen in 1131? when they're losing you and grab "Paying attention??? Not my Anything? Look it up. I don't think your mind again. Like a bulldog." problem. I always pay attention." so. People sat there doing nothing. "No you don't. I could hardly No television, no internet, no "But you lost track of what we even get you to notice me." world cup, no Billboard 100, no were talking about." The annual nation-wide Y.E.S. "That's because I was paying video games, not even a Mona "Yep. A better option came my retreat for high school students attention to something else. I Lisa. They had no books to read, way. You dropped off of page one. is coming up April 5-7, 2013. For always pay attention: you, Mom, didn't know any history. Nine- I am still 100 percent here." He information go to: Write to us at: [email protected] Previous issues: www.kairos-na.org/Special_Archives sites.google.com/site/kairosyesretreat2013/