Beck Who?

Beck won album of the year at the Grammy's on Sunday, prompting a resounding, "Who is this guy?" from young people on social media. I won't pretend that it's more atrocious to not know Beck than it is to not know Paul McCartney, but it is still pretty sad.

The thing that really shows their ignorance, though, is NOT that they've never heard of Beck Hanson - they are young, after all - it's that these kids have never lived in a world without Google. Rather than putting what they don't know on display for the whole world, why not just look him up real quick?

But search engines won't really tell them what they need to know. It won't tell them that the first day the amusement park started running their best roller coaster backwards, Loser was blaring over the loudspeakers, or that Devil's Haircut was playing the first time their mom and her best friend snuck out of a sleepover to meet boys, or how excited their uncle was when he found out the high school marching band was going to get to play The New Pollution, or that Two Turn Tables and a Microphone was the first song that played as their favorite teacher left the DMV with her new driver's license. It won't make them get it. It won't make them feel it. It won't make them teenagers in the correct decade for being a teenager.

On the other hand, it will make them look a little less obnoxious.