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Sixteen Blue

Certain Songs #1868: The Replacements – “Sixteen Blue”

July 16, 2020 by Jim Connelly

Album: Let It Be
Year: 1984

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Your age is the hardest age

Out of all of the major songs on Let It Be, the hardest one for me to get into was “Sixteen Blue.” Sometimes it just happens that way: you know on every objective level that a song is great, but it just doesn’t resonate with you.

Maybe because I was 21, and didn’t want to try to relate to teenagers, having just escaped being one for what felt like an eternity, and so it didn’t quite resonate with me the same way that the more adult themes “I Will Dare” or “Unsatisfied” or, heh, “Answering Machine” did.

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