Sunday, December 11, 2016

Kenny Rogers - "The last Ten Years (Superman) Part 1

Reflecting on the change occurring over the ten years between 1998 and 2008. Blending loss, painful memories, and joyous occasions, curiously he includes where we might be heading in the future.
            At the beginning of this video we find Kenny walking through what looks to be the rubble of years’ past, with the sun setting behind him over in the city. The ruble we soon find contains things such as box TV’s, computers from the Y2K era, phone cords from land lines, a replica of the tree from the Peanuts Christmas special, a billboard of Johnny Cash, and the American flag, and that’s only the first verse. He of course is naming the significance of all these items, but the images become quite self-explanatory if you lived in that era. For instance, the peanuts tree is the loss of cartoons meant to bring about a moral or deeper meaning, the box TV’s was the “need” everyone felt to switch to Flat screen HD TV’s, the billboard being the loss of Kenny’s and most of Americas inspiration, in country music and as a moral man, and the American flag being the loss of both Superman and patriotism.

            Please read Part 2 for the surprising optimism at the beginning…

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