Day 40: I Melt with You

I Melt with You by Modern English.

If you ask me why I think that song has lasted so long, and is liked by so many people, I think the words are one reason. It’s a love song, even though it’s a twisted love song. I think the feel of the song sort of glides – the acoustic guitars just propel it forward. That’s what the enduring quality of it really is.

Robbie Grey from Modern English about “I Melt with You”

There is this question I ask people who I am introduced to at social gatherings: What year did you graduate from high school? I only ask this after several minutes of conversation, and if I have made some connection with them over a favorite band or food and if I think they are somewhere in the five year vicinity of my age. Why not just ask them how old they are? Not appropriate for one. And two, you make more of a connection with the person when you have the same life experienced tied to a momentous event such as graduating from high school when all your memories are faded just enough to be good memories. This song came out the year I graduated from high school, and when some conversation finds this song mentioned as a favorite, I will then ask “WYDYGFHS?”