So I feel like I'm going to watch the music video for the first time now.
Martika - "Toy Soldiers"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=LvdLovAaYzM&si=r8vJ9H9LuC6ho_JR
It makes me think of friends from New York visiting Michigan in the summer and listening to a mix tape, and people making fun of this song and of "Patience" by Axl Rose (But why was it recorded and put on the tape? And haha I don't even remember any of the other songs that were on the tape. These are people's nostalgic 80s songs now, but they were very new once upon a time.)
It makes me think of hearing young people splashing around in a motel pool, by which I mean they were probably teenagers dating / boyfriend and girlfriend. And a mom saying, "oh they're young," and how she was young once and would have been doing the same thing.
It also makes me think that sometimes when adults are acting childishly, maybe they just need to be nurtured. Maybe their inner children are just asking for some attention and they need to listen better to their childish sides.
And it makes me think of the 2010s when I was in a modern dance class at a community college and we were put in a small groups and did some improv dance routines for fun. A guy complimented my group by saying, "I like that; looks like a soldier girl."
The song was still going around in my head this morning, so I had to look it up.
And then I found this!
"Like Toy Soldiers"
Eminem
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