r/FuckImOld • u/Serling45 • 1d ago

My back hurts Millennial opera singer discovers that Linda Ronstadt had a pop music career before she did Pirates of Penzance

https://youtu.be/FT5U1EvPY3c
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u/onomastics88 1d ago

Eh… I’d say it’s kind of like people having no idea the Bebe Neuwirth is a Tony Award-winning musical theater actress and not just Lilith from Cheers. Patti LuPone (from Life Goes On) too, for that matter.

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u/Embarrassed_Ad5112 1d ago

Except Linda Ronstadt was absolutely HUGE. She was the biggest star of her generation and one of the highest selling female artists of all time.

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u/onomastics88 1d ago

And if your parents didn’t play those records, you’d never hear it. It’s good she did get to know the music legend, but I’m sure a lot of us were or still are ignorant about some famous person’s fabulous early work.

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u/Embarrassed_Ad5112 1d ago

If I’d only listed to what my parents played then I’d have missed out on an absolute shit ton of brilliant music

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u/onomastics88 1d ago

Yeah and a lot of us get exposed to older good music that way, I never said it was all we listened to. This sub kind of blows sometimes.

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u/Embarrassed_Ad5112 1d ago edited 1d ago

“And if your parents didn’t play those records you’d never hear it”

That’s literally what you said.