There’s much abuzz about Kelly Clarkson’s ‘Since U been gone’ song. Apparently it makes tops over at iTunes (goes to XML link).
For Europeans abroad, ms. Clarkson was one of the winners of American Idol, you know the show with the premisses that the one with the most votes goes popstar. It doesn’t require to have talent to become a popstar: the only talent you apparently need is to sing along and hold on the last vowel of the song. The longer, the more votes!
But back to the song: there’s one reason why this is song will not stand the test of time and that’s because of the word ‘cool’. When is the last time you heard anyone say the words ‘Far out’ (movies not included). In ten years, we will not know what ‘being cool’ was all about and the word itself will either end up in the bin of ‘anachronisms’ or show up in terrible movies starring Brendan Fraser.