I’m watching the Netflix documentary about the making of We are the World that just came out.
On the car ride home, I was telling my daughter about it. There was one part where Paul Simon looked up to Kenny Loggins and said “If they dropped a bomb on this place, John Denver would be right back on top,” I told this story to my daughter and she said, “The only name I recognize in that story is Obama. Is this song famous or something?”
Then there was another story where Ray Charles needed to use the bathroom and Stevie Wonder showed him where it was and someone said “”It was the blind leading the blind.” And my daughter asked “Wait, Stevie Wonder is blind?"
I don't get the Obama reference?
Imagine if you can remember, my soft, mumbly voice, telling a story quickly. And my teenager, worn out from a long day at school only half listening. And then imagine hearing me mumble "a bomb on."
I think she heard it as "If they dropped Obama, John Denver would be right back on top."
She completely had no clue what this song was. I mentioned that they made it in 1984 (I was wrong, it was March 1985), and she asked "Wasn't that a book?"
And I haven't even had a drink since Friday.
