You make the call!

A friend of mine was searching a few weeks ago for concert tickets for his daughter. He wasn’t having much luck finding reasonably priced ones. He has a young teenaged daughter so I assumed he was looking for tickets to one of Taylor Swift’s shows. Oh no, I couldn’t have been more wrong, or behind the times. He was looking to surprise her with Bruce Springsteen tickets.

Oh, silly me.

As I thought about the two different concerts — 70,000 screaming Swifties or 70,000 Bruce Tramps as they’re affectionately known — I kept thinking about a slew of pop culture battles that exist right now. You make the call:

–Taylor Swift or Bruce Springsteen.

–Actor Harrison Ford in Star Wars or Indiana Jones.

Star Wars is always going to win in my mind because it’s one of the best movies ever made, the series is a notch above, but I do love when Professor Jones takes umbrage and yells out that a certain relic “belongs in a museum.”

–Summer vacation trip to the Beach or Mountains.

–Movie Theater or Live Show.

—Ted Lasso or Yellowstone.

Which do you prefer Ted Lasso’s there’s a morale in every story or Yellowstone’s tough guys have the sweetest hearts? I’ll think I’ll choose Lasso’s syrupy stories simply because there’s so much anger and greed everywhere that sometimes you want to see the good guy win.

–London or Paris.

–Book or Tablet or Kindle.

I go back and forth, but in this day and age of technology, I still often times prefer a real book to highlight and jot notes down in. The hardback or paperback book lives to fight another day!

–Barbie, Oppenheimer, or Mission Impossible.

Barbie and Ken go Hollywood, a dramatic A-lister actor look at the development of the atomic bomb, or the Mission Impossible Team on another fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants case. Where’s an animated kid’s movie when you need one?

–Spotify or Apple Music.

–Movie Theater Popcorn or Candy.

Sweet buttery popcorn every time! Yes, I love American Candies: Twizzlers, M&M’s, Junior Mints, and Swedish Fish too, but there’s nothing like a big tub of popcorn.

–Adele or Beyonce. 

–Laptop or Tablet or SmartPhone.

Yes, yes, I’m a dinosaur, but I still like writing on my laptop.

–Coke or Pepsi or Water.

Gen Alpha, Generation Z, and Millennials may be the future, but The Pepsi Generation still rocks. (Pepsi started advertising the Pepsi Generation in the 1960s and promoted “The Choice of A New Generation” with Michael Jackson in the mid-80s.)

–SpongeBob SquarePants or Homer Simpson.

I had to look it up the other day. The Simpsons are in their 34th year. Now there’s some staying power. Homer easily. D’oh.

–Cake or Ice Cream.

As I’ve already come out on this issue in past blogs, it’s always a good time for ice cream.

–Netflix or Amazon Prime or Disney + or Paramount or Peacock or Max or etc., etc.

Oh, the days when streaming was limited to a few choices. Now there are more choices than days in the week.

If only, all choices were like these.