Chumbawamba Tried to Save the World 25 Years Ago. Can They Do It Again?
The year is 1997. You are listening to the car radio. You are at a party. You are at a bar, the drug store, a wedding, your bedroom, or in your living room watching TV. It doesn’t matter where you were because it was everywhere, being sung by everyone. It still hasn’t stopped.
Your dad was banging his head to the beat. “I get knocked down / But I get up again / You are never gonna keep me down.” (Dads lived for this song.) But your mom chimes in, too, bashful and feeling a little bit naughty as her falsetto kicks in: “Pissing the night away…”
Meanwhile you, your friends, and your siblings have been doing your studious best to memorize the correct order of things, as if you were clocking times tables or state capitals. “He drinks a Whiskey drink / He drinks a Vodka drink / He drinks a Lager drink / He drinks a Cider drink.”