Long distance information, give me Memphis, Tennessee

[ciphergoth]

Where are the songs that refer to email, SMS, and suchlike in the same way as so many songs refer to the phone, in a straightforward way without trying to be cool about it?

Update: http://www.pensive.org/jeff/mrfone/culture.htm

Comments

[zotz]

There was some cruddy chart single a year or two ago that mentioned (in passing) sending a message "by the internet". The problem is that these are text media and are never going to be as intimate as something with actual voice. After all, compare the number of telephone songs to the number that revolve around fleshly contact. Even the telephone songs are frequently about not being able to get through - the phone becomes a metaphor for separation rather than contact.

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

Sure... so I'd expect a song about being dumped by text message, or something...

[zotz]

Good point. They've only become common in the last few years, though. There haven't been many significant telephone songs per year, so we shouldn't necessarily expect to get many of these a years either.

Oh, and I think Republica's "From the rush hour with love" is implicitly about a mobile. I'm getting slightly closer.