Because it's summer: smooth song of the day #15

Lowdown by Boz Scaggs

Baby's into runnin' around,
hangin' with the crowd,
puttin' yo business in the street and talkin' out loud.
Sayin' you bought her this and that and how much you done spent.
I swear she must believe it's all heaven sent.

Yeah, towards the end of high school older guys from outside school moved in on the senior girls and these older guys had cars and money and the girls could dress up a little and the doormen at the club would let them in where we could never go. And for a few years the smooth clean girls were showered with attention and presents. I remember talking to one of the girls from my school five years later and realizing with a jolt that she'd never paid for her own drink even once. What Boz doesn't get around to saying is that the sense of entitlement that girls started to get at that age is entirely justified. They are the most desirable women on the planet. Even the biggest sex symbol of the generation pales next to them.

You would think, by the way, that a few years later when I became one of those slightly older (just older enough) guys with money and a car who could was moving in on those girls myself that I would have had some pity for the poor guys moping around them. You'd be wrong to think that.

Everyone has to toughen up. I made it through it, so can they.

Around this time, the look started to change. The sandals went and were replaced with something finer. The girls still favoured natural fabrics but they slowly became a little less seventies and a style that would soon be called prep started to slide into place. They were still smooth and clean though.

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