Nostalgia is a funny thing and music can bring back that feeling of nostalgia. That song you heard during your first date, the first song you heard while holding your child, will always have a special place in your heart. Every time you hear it, you are instantly transported back to that moment. The song may completely blow African assholes, but you can't help but think upon it fondly.

For me it is This is How We Do It by Montel Jordan because that is what the sorority girl used to dance around to as I lurked in the bushes. Anytime I hear that song, I am instantly transported back to that special place (rhododendron). She would probably think differently of that song, perhaps not as fondly, as it is a song that she remembers as the "Restraining order" song.

Today there are easy listening radio stations that count on those memories. They play the top hits of the 60, 70, 80s, and 90s. But when this current young generation reaches the age of nostalgia, will we hear Lady Gaga, Train, and the Jonas Brothers? Or will the station be filled with Nickelback, Three Days Grace, or Buckcherry?

I don't want to be 50 years old and sitting in a dentist chair and still have to hear Photograph by Nickelback because some one aged 30 or less remembers the song as their first kiss, first dance, first sexual experience, etc.

There is a lot of great music out there that mainstream radio hasn't heard. Today's hits will soon become yesterday's favorites and if there is a world where Nickelback is yesterday's favorite, I don't want to be part of it. As the Who said, I hope I die before I get old. I hope John Cusack's Mayan calendar is right because it is the only thing that will stop a future filled with Nickelback.