So in today’s adventures in research, the only thing I really wanted to know was how the song “Stayin’ Alive” was spelled.
But, in true internet rabbit-hole style, I also discovered the subreddit Ask Old People.
Y’all, I’m an old now.
But I do remember when the song “Stayin’ Alive” came out along with the movie Saturday Night Fever. Oh, that was a big deal, made bigger by the fact that the movie was rated R and I was in junior high at the time, much too young to go see it.
Saturday Night Fever was so popular that they eventually released a cut-up PG version, and we all packed the theaters to see it. Other than the iconic opening sequence, the only thing I remember is that the film was so sliced and diced as to be incomprehensible.
I never did see the full rated-R version. To this day, I have no idea what the movie is actually about. But I have this memory.
Honestly? That’s enough.
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Now that’s some swagger!
This one came out during my first year of college (so I’m seriously old; like, “try not to scare the children” old), so I missed it (no car, no time) until the late 80s when when movies started coming on videotape, and I remember thinking it was a lot of fun. And then sometime in the last five or ten years, we tried to watch it again and couldn’t get past the first 20 minutes. That might have been my husband’s fault though. I don’t think there were any car chases or gunfight to keep him entertained…
Ah, “Stayin’ Alive,” the suicide prevention song.