Songs that now require a technological upgrade

Please Mister ISP Provider, look and see
(Oh yeah)
If there’s an email in your spam filter for me
(Please, Please Mister ISP Provider)
Why’s it takin’ such a long time
(Oh yeah)
For me to hear from that boy of mine

The Turtles, “Happy Together”

If I should call you up, invest some minutes
And you say you belong to me, my heart you’re in it

The entire song Western Union by The Five Americans would have to be completely re-imagined and rewritten from scratch. It’s probably easier just to toss it:

Paul Simon, “Kodachrome”

Instagram
You give us those nice bright colors
You give us the greens of summers
Makes you think all the world’s a sunny day, oh yeah!
I got an iPhone camera
I love to take a photograph
So Mama, don’t take my Instagram away

What would you do if I sang without Auto-Tune…

“Pictures of Lily” by the Who would now be a song about googling with safe search turned off

In what I hope was deliberate irony, Maroon 5 have a new hit song called “Payphone”.

My 12 year old son hears it and asks me,what kind of a loser uses a payphone, even homeless people seem to have cell phones.

While riding in my Cadillac
What to my surprise
A little Smart Car was following me
About one third my size

TEXT ME! (text me) on the line
Text me, text me any, any time

I got elastic bands keepin’ my shoes on.
Got those swollen hand blues.
Got ***thirteen hundred channels of shit plus Netflix streaming and my PS3 ***on the T.V. to choose from.

Pink Floyd - Nobody’s Home

“Oh, your hair is beautiful
Oh, tonight -
RENEWABLES!”

“Here in my car
I have mobile broadband
I can stream video
It keeps me stable for days
in cars”

“Don’t say you’re easy on me
you’re about as easy as a long, drawn-out fight against a
committed insurgency”

You could do a whole series on Kraftwerk:

“I program my Raspberry Pi
beam myself into the early 1980s”

"Everything, and everything; everything, and everything
Everything, and everything; everything, and everything

everything - everything - everything - everything

Computer World"

"I’m an ordinary person
with my tablet
doing everything
with it

I am surfing
and chatting
not creating
just consuming

By pressing down on the oh shit no you have to
no, you swipe like that yes, there’s iTunes"

“Radio-activity
it’s in the air for you and me
as long as you have a cheap data contract”

*Spiderwebs *from No Doubt was obviously written before common cell phone ownership. Also, who still has a stand-alone answering machine?

[del]*I gave a letter to the postman,
he put it his sack.
Bright in early next morning,
he brought my letter back.

So then I dropped it in the mailbox
And sent it special D.
Bright in early next morning
it came right back to me.

She wrote upon it:
Return to sender, address unknown.
No such number, no such zone. *[/del]

She blocked me.

Ooo, I’ve got one. I still use it, but the battery no longer holds a charge so it is permanently plugged into the wall.

As I write this post
Send my love to you
Remember that I’ll always
Be in love with you
Treasure these few words 'till we’re together
Keep all my love forever

ETA: I love you

Over the river and through the woods
To grandmother’s house we go
Tomtom knows the way to drive the Hyundai
through white and drifted snow…

I’d love to see an update of We didn’t start the fire.

And everytime I hear Give me Hope Joanna I wonder how long it will be before people don’t understand the references.

So start a new text, Siri,
e-mail it to my wife
Say I won’t be coming home, gonna start a new life.
File that letter, Siri, in the sub-directory of my wife
CC it to my lawyer, gonna start a new life.

One whose cellphone isn’t getting no reception, at 3am in a strange city…

*I love her
I need her
I charge her

Yeah, she turns me on
All right, Insight
You’re my hybrid car*