Monte's streetlights people

[Joe Allonby]

The song is usually enjoyed ironically. It's a hipster trope. The lyrics
are gibberish. the music bombastic. The band so uncool as to lack
self-awareness of their camp appeal.

It's a staple of jukeboxes in supposedly hip bars.



On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 6:45 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Monte wrote and asked:
> I felt the need of an ambulance myself on learning that Journey’s ‘Don’t
> Stop Believin’ <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1k8craCGpgs>(Preview)
> **Play
> (Show link)
> Journey - Don't Stop Believin' (Audio) journeyVEVO
> Music video by Journey performing Don't Stop Believin'. (C) 1981 Columbia
> Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
> (Show link)
> ‘ – source of the phrase “streetlight people” -- is “the top-selling
> catalog track in iTunes history with over 5 million digital copies sold, as
> well as the best-selling rock song in digital history.<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Stop_Believin%27>“ Why would Slagiatt and associates have chosen that then-20-year-old song?
>
> I don't know the answer either, of course, but I will suggest two things.
> 1st, being so popular, TRP thinks it embodies insight into..us. them. them
> as us.?
>
> Also that the phrase below greatly appealed to him. We know something
> about TRP's streetlights trope and BE is sprinkled (filled?) with hints
> that the characters lack (some) emotions. First, all the televisual
> perceptions suggests Thanatoidsim, yes?
> And, some other examples of missing emotions coming up...
>
> "Streetlights people, living just to find emotion"
>
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