I’m not yet thirty-two, yet in my lifetime I’ve already enjoyed many rock ballads. For example, in the early nineties one of the rock ballads I loved was Sit Down by a band called James. You can watch the video clip for this song above. At the time I was fourteen years old and I thought that Sit Down was one of the coolest rock ballads I’d ever heard. The band James were a big part of the Manchester scene which was very popular in Britain at the time.
Now when I watch the video clip for Sit Down I think that it looks and sounds quite dated and frankly that makes me feel old. It’s hard to believe that it’s already been seventeen years since the song Sit Down was popular in Britain. It truly seems as though it were only five minutes ago and time has passed by without me realizing it.
To me watching video clips of older rock ballads is quite interesting because it shows how the music industry has changed and progressed over the years. In twenty years time when people listen to the rock ballads from 2008 they will undoubtedly seem just as dated as Sit Down does now.