Let's Stay Together - Al Green

Like many of the more skeptical among us, I initially distrusted the internet for the unscrupulous ways in which it brought us information. Doubtful that it's hypertext was an improvement over, or in any way supplanted the traditional subtext we employ everyday, I ignored it for most of its infancy. I should go on to say that I was fervently against the internet being used as a marketing medium, a technology that cellphone salesman and Viagra dealers would fawn over to shift more units. And, indeed, I had just cause to be so incredulous of peoples' motivations.

However, this negative view of the internet is just one of many possible opinions an individual could ascribe to the information highway. In point of fact, it isn't till one is truly in need of information that one appreciates a highway dedicated solely to its most expedient transmission. And here I find myself, continuously hating on - and singing the praises of - The Internet. Case in point: Al Green.

Many of today's younger generations probably don't understand the importance of Pulp Fiction's influence on the history of modern cinema, nor would my generation be guiltless of regarding seminal films from before its time with similar disinterest. For example, I would be surprised if more than 1 out of 10 of my peers could name the "Greatest Screenplay" ever written, or the first film to win Best Picture*

But that in no way limits nor discredits the case for this obvious jam: I don't care if your "frat boy" boyfriend rocks this jam on the regs in his Land Cruiser SUV, shoved haphazardly between Parliament and Dave Matthews. Likewise, I care not that you get a feeling of nostalgia when this song makes an appearance at the local super market. I most importantly do not care that this is your parents' wedding song and that you fully intended to make it your own as well: this song is now and forever an obvious jam...so play on, playa!



*btdubs..."Chinatown" is widely considered the "Greatest Screenplay Ever", and the first motion picture to win Best Picture was "Wings", about a World War I pilot...jsyk.