Flipping channels last night, I paused to watch the last five minutes of Jeopardy, because if any Final Jeopardy category could cause me to wager it all, it's 1940s Music History. Well, that and maybe Popular Noise Reduction Plug-Ins. But let's be real. The Final Jeopardy answer (paraphrased):

Jerry Wexler coined this term to replace the phrase 'race music.'

The contestants answers, er, questions: What is rock and roll? What is hip hop? What is jazz?

Seriously?! No one could recall what music was popular during, I don't know, World War II and the years shortly thereafter?

Rhythm and Blues, people!!

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It's true, I turned on VH1 Classic yesterday morning to watch a few minutes of Totally 80s. I saw Debbie Gibson's Only In My Dreams, followed by a commercial for osteoporosis medication.  Target audience?  Couldn't possibly be me.  I'm only 34, and I once drew happy faces on my knees to show throw the holes in my acid wash jeans, just like Debbie.  And yet...