I was watching American Idol (don't judge me) and there was a banjo playing contestant. Harry Connick Jr. asked her to play the Beverley Hillbillies song so the judges could sing along. Jennifer Lopez stated she had NEVER heard the song before. So Harry and Keith Urban sang it while J Lo sat by with a puzzled expression. I do not believe her. Keith Urban knew it and he did not even grow up in the USA.
shareWell maybe J Lo doesn't have that particular Flatt and Scruggs Album,
I have heard her humming Jimmy Brown, the Newsboy before, so give her time to collect them all. You know people now days don't buy albums, they buy songs, it takes longer.
Ephemeron.
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I don't believe her either. She was being sarcastic most likely. TBH is too iconic for no one to have heard of it.
Even people who don't like the show still know what it's about.
She wasn't being sarcastic. She was trying to pretend she wasn't old enough to know the show, hell it was still running 2 years after she was born. I grew up in the NYC area like she did, it was shown for years and years in repeats.
She was trying to act like she was too young, epic fail.
Maybe, it wasn't the type of show she watched (being from NYC, she might be too urban to watch shows like this), or "TBH" wasn't shown in her part of the U.S.
shareI posted I grew up in the NYC area as did she, it was most certainly shown on TV there in repeats.
She didn't want to date herself, she was clearly playing it off that it was before her time, it wasn't.
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There are people in theirs 20s and 30s with no idea who Paul McCartney is.
I was born in the 80s, and grew up with a steady flow of reruns; The Monkees, Star Trek, Batman, Lost in Space, Gilligan, the Hillbillies, the Junction...
In her case, being born in 1969, if she had a normal childhood she would have stumbled upon a Beverly Hillbillies rerun. But she was very driven and not sitting around watching TV reruns like most kids. Plus coming from a Puerto Rican family, a Parody of country people from Missouri/Arkansas was not probably high on their list of cultural must-haves. When the Hillbillies were on, and getting an unthinkable by today's standards 44% of Americans tuning in, America was still pretty much a monoculture
shareIt's cool not to know about things that are considered old. Makes an old sod like her feel young again. She knows what that song. Don't let that lying sack of poo fool you.
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