I cannot provide any personal or elaborate details of the 1950’s nor do I possess any reminiscence of sharing malt shakes at Woolworth’s ‘groovin’ to the coin-operated Jukebox. I did not jovially hand jive with the cool cats at any sock hops and I did not sport a finely groomed and greased ducktail.

I missed out.

I was also not a front-row witness to James Dean’s revitalizing discovery of teenage rebellion or the infamous gust of wind, which wrestled through the subway grates-perversely inflating Marilyn Monroe’s white dress.

I was not there.

Despite the absence of these particular pop-culture experiences, I know that in 1956, as a result of a series of hip gyrations, a 19 –year old Memphis truck driver, Elvis Aaron Presley, would lay the foundations of rock-n-roll and revolutionize traditionally held morals and values forever on the “Ed Sullivan Show.” Later in his career, “Elvis the Pelvis” wore outlandish jumpsuits and placed promiscuity into prom with a single thrust. He became the villain and ridiculous reason in some American families for all the “back seat bingo” at Friday’s drive in.

Presley’s smooth movements marked him as a principal figure in the changing American sexuality. He provided society with a new perspective, refocusing the outdated idea of heavily suppressed sexual expression into an idea that only a “hound dog” could grasp. Presley’s appearance, music, and swagger were considered very sexy and his influence epidemically became tantamount to teenagers and worrisome for concerned parents.

Society almost instantly accepts the assumption that each new generation is more innately corrupt. These emerging generations are considered violent from their video games and sexually voracious due to the “hypersexed” environment in which they inevitably inhabit.

Parents have recently become a bit shaken up and are concerned that their children are having sex earlier, but according to a recent article and survey study in NYTimes, this is not the case… statistically at least. Today, fewer than half of all high school students have had sex: 47.8 percent as of 2007, according to the National Youth Risk Behavior Survey, down from 54.1 percent in 1991.

 A musical progression and media analysis would illustrate that over time music has been a direct expression of many human sexual perversities. The statistic becomes additionally complex and harder to comprehend- how is it that female sensations in the music industry have evolved from The Supremes to the The Pussycat Dolls without increasing sexual activity, especially amongst the younger and media obsessed generations?

We as listeners have progressed from enjoying the innocent Chordettes with their hit pop single "Lollipop" --> To listening to rapper, Lil Wayne, singing a song about "Lollipops" - just in a very different sense.

Hopefully the lyrical difference was made apparent considering that we are naturally corrupt.

The Supremes were the doo-wop sensation in 1959. When observing the variances observed in the videos, it is important to keep in mind the direct relationship between societal sexuality and artistic expression.

This is perhaps a statistical error or the greatest example of reverse psychology. Maybe prom really is all about dancing. The 1950’s will never be lived out or experienced again. This groovy decade existed as a brief season and sprouted many new exposures and ideas to society.

… The jukebox is blaring and after carefully flipping through the song selections I press “1 – 9 – 4 - 4”. Poodle skirts and ponytails arrive shortly after. My twist is out of this world and I catch the eye of a stacked girl effortlessly doing the stroll. We begin to dance. I arrive at euphoria… I wake up and repeatedly realize.

I missed out.