I can’t say exactly why this song came into my head, but it did. And once it did, I had to hear it. Which was surprisingly hard to find the original song by Baz Luhrmann from 1999.
With so much music on streaming services, it feels strange when I have a specific songs and version I want to hear and can’t find it. But if I dug through my old mp3s I could find it. That’s more of a commentary on the current state of music... but I digress.
Everybody’s Free to Wear Sunscreen was originally an essay published in 1997 and later turned into a popular song.
“Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young“, commonly known by the title “Wear Sunscreen“, is an essay written as a hypothetical commencement speech by columnist Mary Schmich, originally published in June 1997 in the Chicago Tribune.
For some of you, this may be the first time you’re hearing this. For others, a reminder from your youth. Either way, I hope you enjoy it and it’s worth reading the original essay on the Chicago Tribune.
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Section: Music
Tags: Sunscreen, Baz Luhrmann