Funky
Thursday, September 28th, 2006
I was having a conversation with my housemate last night who said she hates the use of the word funky, especially by people who are over 30 and are trying to seem cool (!). As in “I really think we could do with some more funky office furniture” or “I went to a restaurant last night” “oh,yes?” “yeah it was really funky”. I also had a friend who was in a band who hates any other band which described themselves as funky or retro-funk or funk-reggae-groove- with Swedish beats. or the like. I just nodded but embarrassingly remembered my overuse of the word and then felt really old (even though I’m not) and a bit of a country bumpkin = she is 22 and from London. Why the distaste - or is it a polluting of the word funk?: