Simon & Garfunkel - Cecilia
(Source: lechatperdu, via slaughterhousefive)
Sorry for the lame-ass quality.
And for the appearance of my face. HEE.
Also, a funny (…to me) story about my “Beatles fandom” that was actually a Simon & Garfunkel fandom.
When I was a kid, I liked listening to the same things kids then listened to. Hanson, Moffats, Backstreet Boys, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Jennifer Lopez (My sister liked them and bought their cassettes, and I was the youngest so I pretty much looked up to all my siblings.). But aside from that, I liked Simon & Garfunkel too. Especially ‘The Boxer.’ That was my favourite song of all time (especially the chorus).
Except I didn’t know that it was by Simon & Garfunkel. It was a Dad song, and since I associated my dad with The Beatles (for some reason), I actually thought ‘The Boxer’ was by The Beatles. I was, literally, the musically oblivious sixth grader before the musically oblivious sixth grader became a meme (“The Beatles? I love ‘The Boxer!’”).
But that’s not the end of it. So I was in sixth grade, and I had a classmate who was a huge fan of The Beatles. She had Paul McCartney as her picture on Y!m, and her status was about how Ringo hated the Philippines and how it was the worst place he’d been to (or something to that effect.).
I messaged her about how attractive Paul was.
She agreed with me and she told me about how she just loved ‘Strawberry Fields Forever.’
I told her my favourite The Beatles song was (…why am I telling you this, again?) ‘The Boxer.’
She went all, “What’s that?” I told her it was the one where the chorus was “lie la lie, lie la lie lie, lie la lie.” She had no idea what it was. I looked up the Beatles’ discography. There was no ‘The Boxer.’ I looked for ‘The Boxer.’ I found it under Simon & Garfunkel’s.
I didn’t talk to her about The Beatles ever again.
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