@LoFiGirl I know the wife of one of them. Not young, married 35 years ago. This is not an advertisement for that. And this is now out “dating”. Thus the lines ‘ like a Sunday in TJ, it’s cheap but it’s not free, and I’m not what I used to be,and loves not a game for free.’
Steely Dan write about characters, not as characters. The song is about facing the inevitable stinging aging process, and being humiliated by his piers for paying hookers since he can’t get a real date of any kind now that he’s over the hill…if anything,...
@LoFiGirl I know the wife of one of them. Not young, married 35 years ago. This is not an advertisement for that. And this is now out “dating”. Thus the lines ‘ like a Sunday in TJ, it’s cheap but it’s not free, and I’m not what I used to be,and loves not a game for free.’
Steely Dan write about characters, not as characters. The song is about facing the inevitable stinging aging process, and being humiliated by his piers for paying hookers since he can’t get a real date of any kind now that he’s over the hill…if anything, they are totally making fun of this fool. Not about dating young women .. it takes abit of decoding to get what they are saying in most songs, and not very easy…and they didn’t want it to be. But songs like this are best to me to visualize as a kind of short noir movie
@LoFiGirl oops, wrong song my bad! Still not about that actually but about how ridiculous dating a 19 year old would be for them. More like trying to talk a girl out of it. We have nothing to even talk about… so no, not gonna happen. At least I’ve always seen this song in that context. More of a list of reasons to not go there. These guys are good guys, not Pervy or weird at all. Met at college and spent most of their time in the studio laughing at the lyrics they came up with… imo
@LoFiGirl oops, wrong song my bad! Still not about that actually but about how ridiculous dating a 19 year old would be for them. More like trying to talk a girl out of it. We have nothing to even talk about… so no, not gonna happen. At least I’ve always seen this song in that context. More of a list of reasons to not go there. These guys are good guys, not Pervy or weird at all. Met at college and spent most of their time in the studio laughing at the lyrics they came up with… imo
I am really REALLY sick of men trying to date much younger women. SO OVER IT. Steely Dan was a legendary band, such talent, but I hate this song.
@LoFiGirl I know the wife of one of them. Not young, married 35 years ago. This is not an advertisement for that. And this is now out “dating”. Thus the lines ‘ like a Sunday in TJ, it’s cheap but it’s not free, and I’m not what I used to be,and loves not a game for free.’ Steely Dan write about characters, not as characters. The song is about facing the inevitable stinging aging process, and being humiliated by his piers for paying hookers since he can’t get a real date of any kind now that he’s over the hill…if anything,...
@LoFiGirl I know the wife of one of them. Not young, married 35 years ago. This is not an advertisement for that. And this is now out “dating”. Thus the lines ‘ like a Sunday in TJ, it’s cheap but it’s not free, and I’m not what I used to be,and loves not a game for free.’ Steely Dan write about characters, not as characters. The song is about facing the inevitable stinging aging process, and being humiliated by his piers for paying hookers since he can’t get a real date of any kind now that he’s over the hill…if anything, they are totally making fun of this fool. Not about dating young women .. it takes abit of decoding to get what they are saying in most songs, and not very easy…and they didn’t want it to be. But songs like this are best to me to visualize as a kind of short noir movie
@LoFiGirl oops, wrong song my bad! Still not about that actually but about how ridiculous dating a 19 year old would be for them. More like trying to talk a girl out of it. We have nothing to even talk about… so no, not gonna happen. At least I’ve always seen this song in that context. More of a list of reasons to not go there. These guys are good guys, not Pervy or weird at all. Met at college and spent most of their time in the studio laughing at the lyrics they came up with… imo
@LoFiGirl oops, wrong song my bad! Still not about that actually but about how ridiculous dating a 19 year old would be for them. More like trying to talk a girl out of it. We have nothing to even talk about… so no, not gonna happen. At least I’ve always seen this song in that context. More of a list of reasons to not go there. These guys are good guys, not Pervy or weird at all. Met at college and spent most of their time in the studio laughing at the lyrics they came up with… imo