Some songs are so iconic it's hard to imagine them any other way. Tod Perry takes us behind the scenes of one such classic, while Annie Reneau finds something unexpectedly moving in a game about drawing fish. And if you've never felt entirely comfortable being called a Boomer or Gen Xer, there's a good chance we have a story about you, too.
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The Bee Gees wrote the hit ‘Islands in the Stream,’ but Dolly and Kenny weren’t their first choice | ||
The song would have been much different. | ||
By Tod Perry | ||
The Bee Gees enjoyed a decade of success as soft-rock singers with folk and country roots until 1977, when the band hit mega stardom after the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack. The Bee Gees were the biggest stars of the disco era with hits such as “Stayin’ Alive,” “How Deep Is Your Love,” and “Night Fever,” but by the end of the decade they found themselves in the heart of the “Disco Sucks” backlash. | ||
Barry, Maurice, and Robin Gibb’s iconic look and lush harmonies made it tough for them to do an about-face after disco ended, so they took a break and worked behind the scenes, writing and producing for other artists while the storm cleared. Their biggest hit from this era was “Islands in the Stream,” a duet between country stars Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton that crossed over with amazing success, hitting number one on the Billboard charts. | ||
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An indie art game where you draw your own fish to care for is unexpectedly making people cry | ||
The child artist in all of us remembers this feeling. | ||
By Annie Reneau | ||
By the time we’re adults, we’ve generally decided whether or not we consider ourselves an “artist.” But as kids, we didn’t make that distinction. Every child is an artist, and that child artist still lives somewhere inside each of us. | ||
Perhaps that’s why a trailer for the brilliantly simple art game Drawquarium is making people cry. Take a look and see how it hits you: | ||
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An Upworthiest Quiz
How do fish sense movement in the water around them?
Last Week's Results
In Friday's issue, we shared the wonderfully useless '80s knowledge still stuck in our heads.
We asked which piece of completely useless '80s knowledge is permanently lodged in your brain. Commercial jingles and slogans ran away with it, taking 52.7% of the vote. Somewhere, an advertising executive from 1986 is smiling.
Commercial jingles and slogans (52.7%) 🏆
Obscure TV theme songs (15.8%)
Phone numbers I haven't dialed in decades (18.6%)
Movie quotes nobody asked me to recite (12.9%)
Upworthiest reader Nancy Spivey voted for phone numbers. “I am 75, and I still remember my friend’s phone number from the 60’s. Yet I can’t remember what I did yesterday.”
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Too young to be a Boomer, too old to be Gen X: Meet the microgeneration ‘Generation Jones’ | ||
By Upworthy Staff | ||
Generational labels have become cultural identifiers. These include Baby Boomers, Gen X, Millennials, Gen Z and Gen Alpha. And each of these generations is defined by its unique characteristics, personalities and experiences that set them apart from other generations. | ||
But in-between these generational categories are “microgenerations”, who straddle the generation before and after them. For example, “Xennial” is the microgeneration name for those who fall on the cusp of Gen X and Millennials. | ||
And there is also a microgeneration between Baby Boomers and Gen X called Generation Jones, which is made up of people born from 1954 to 1965. But what exactly differentiates Gen Jones from the Boomers and Gen Xers that flank it? | ||
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