MARK PARTON takes a sad song and wonders…

ONE of the downsides of working in news/talk radio is that you’re forever seeking information, but when I knock off on a Friday I don’t care what’s going on in the news.

I turn off the radio and listen to my iPod on the way home. Last week, I’d left the iPod in the other car and I was forced to brave music radio, where I found myself bopping along to the Good Charlotte song “Last Night”.

Then it began to annoy me because it spells out one of the great problems with Generation Y:

So here we have a young man who’s gone out on the town and met some gorgeous girl. He thinks that he may have had the best night of his life, but he can’t remember.

In the song, the only way that he recalls the face of the girl is the picture of the two of them on his mobile phone.

Now I’m sorry, but if you can’t remember, what was the point of it all?

If you were so inebriated that you have virtually no recollection of what happened, then why do it in the first place?

Stroll through Civic at three o’clock on a Saturday morning and you’ll come across dozens of young revellers, who may well be having one of the best nights of their lives, but won’t remember anything about it the following day.

Do these people not have any personality without alcohol ?

Mark Parton is the breakfast announcer on 2CC