BEFORE I knew I could eat Menudo, I grew up liking their music.
Call them the boy bands of old, to which the millenials who know nothing about, making it a secret for generations past, allowing scoffing when asked to retell history.
When millenials are caught off guard on a subject they know nothing about, it is like a piece of equipment rebooting itself to function.
The band was a starting point for both Ricky Martin and Draco Rosa, who were members around the mid-1980s, two of the most screened at members in their time.
Menudo was a Puerto Rican boy band that was formed in the 1970s and was the biggest Latin boy band in history, releasing their first album in 1977. The band achieved much success, especially during the 1980s, becoming the most popular Latin American teen musical group of the era.
They were popular until of course they disbanded and went on their separate ways, with each trying to find some sort of niche apart from the band which got worldwide attention.
The popularity of Menudo can be likened to Five Seconds of Summer and One Direction (before they lost it), and when you tell that to a millennial, they go “ohhhhhhhh,” visibly finding it difficult to believe something so big happened before them.
That is the problem with millennials today; they cannot imagine that entire lifetimes were lived fully before they marked their decent into the earth, thinking they are the beginning and the end of everything.
We are irked but forget we were that years ago. When millenials become us, we are offended.
Generation Gen Z, iGen, Centennials, Generation X, Baby Boomers, Traditionalists and the Silent Generation all had the notion they will save the earth, call it a weird messianic calling each generation goes through thinking they were “it”.
Yes, we once though we could change the world...and wasn’t it lovely.
When we see millenials taking on the world with their incorrigible blubber, we see our hopeless selves years back and scoff at them probably in the way we were scoffed at.
It is a vicious cycle, the want to change the world. It never wanes.
We will continue to laugh about it for decades to come and wait for the next generation try to do it.
And now I eat my Menudo with the knowledge Ricky Martin is living happily ever after with his two sons born out of a surrogate, with his partner for life.
Yes the joke was on me huh.