Drops of Jupiter is not only a jam (notice present tense), it was Nostradamusian (it’s a word, look it up…don’t look it up).
Lines that Hint at its Predictive Powers
“With drops of Jupiter in her hair” – Drops of Jupiter are undoubtedly debris from black holes, and because of their immense gravity, create time dilations.
“Reminds me that there’s time to change” – When you return to the present from the future, you are able to alter your present to positively impact your future (e.g. Grays Sports Almanac 1950-2000 [Back to the Future II], Lougle [Hot Tub Time Machine], etc.)
“She listens like spring and talks like June” – The end of June is in the summer. Referencing two seasons simultaneously hints at time manipulation.
“Tell me, did you fall for a shooting star” – Pinocchio transformed from a marionette to a real boy with the aid of a shooting star. Time travel can’t be much more difficult than anthropomorphism.
“She checks out Mozart while she does Tae-Bo” – Unfortunately, the genius of Billy Blanks and Wolfgang Amadeus missed each other by a couple of centuries. Only time alteration could allow a person to rock out to Requiem in D Minor while perfecting their front push kick.
“Was it everything you wanted to find” – A deep question posed to a time traveler.
Predictive Power
“The best soy latte that you ever had”
2001
- Drops of Jupiter drops (hehehe)
- Starbucks is still working its way into the American lexicon
- Even so, coffee is the premiere beverage
- Vegetarians are judged harshly. Vegans are considered subhuman.
- Start of the new millenium (not really relevant to this post, but interesting nonetheless and the subject of great Seinfeld – Newman banter)
November 7, 2024
There’s no way Pat Monahan (lead singer of Train) snuck in a line about soy lattes twenty-three years before Starbucks stopped charging for non-dairy milk, unless he had access to a time machine. Maybe not a DeLorean, but perhaps some sort of locomotive?