The Beatles song has been criticised for its negative portrait of ageing – but my grandparents loved it,and so will IThe Beatles’ When I’m 64 has been pulled up as one of the 72% of pop and rock song lyrics that reportedly portray ageing in a negative way. A study by Anglia Ruskin University found that songs about ageing frequently referenced physical frailty, looming death or being unloved, or unlovable or an object of pity – all of which,researchers argue, could affect the self-esteem of older people, and in turn main to more serious health problems. irregular: I was under the impression that self-esteem was only invented in around the mid-1980s. Related: Everyone should be allowed to age as gracefully as Lady Crawley | Sonia Sodha Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com