What is that are we leaving together? Content driven by intellectual value, in favor of countdowns that aren’t as substantial as those of yesteryear.
Europe saw this coming, and they lamented this loss of apparent value in the first verse of “The Final Countdown”: “We’re leaving together / But still it’s farewell / And maybe we’ll come back / To earth, who can tell? / I guess there is no one to blame / We’re leaving ground (leaving ground) / Will things ever be the same again?”
The key term there is “frivolous.” Frivolous things don’t matter. They are also bite-sized and frivolous enough to be shared on social media.” Because they don’t take long to read, visitors to the site are more likely to click on another listicle that interests them, generating more traffic. explains: “They are easy for content producers to create or plagiarize, and unlike news content, they remain “relevant” for years. That brings us to today, the age of the listicle, the more prominent contemporary form of the countdown. As users realized the internet could be used for more and as content providers realized that they could provide that content, the World Wide Web was filled with less serious musings about entertainment, culture, and humor. Most of the early online written content was either newsworthy or informative, to take advantage of the most immediately useful utilization of the medium. In 1989, English scientist Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, the virtual space through which most users access the internet.Īs the internet became more widespread and allowed the efficient communication of information, the needs of the audience became more nuanced, and easier to fulfill. It’s important to understand everything that has happened-everything the band saw coming-since the song’s parent album of the same name was released on May 26, 1986. This has lead to great success for the song, but it has also overshadowed its invaluable, prophetic underlying theme: “The Final Countdown” truly was the final countdown… that mattered. They had the last one that would ever exist, “The Final Countdown.” At the time, it sounded like hyperbole, and the message of the song was taken lightly as the track, a fun and high-energy arena rocker, would go on to become a favorite at sporting events and other spirited environments.
The quintet's big-boy Epic inaugural, The Final Countdown deftly combines the Valhalla victory of Europe's heroic debut with the American poodle pomposity that devoured the band.It was on this day 30 years ago that Swedish band Europe alerted the world that the time-honored tradition of the countdown was coming to an end. This is the story this is the legend told by Teutonic guitars and predictable keyboards ringing pure and hurtling through each and every convention perfectly. In fact, the lofty ambition of "Danger on the Track," "Ninja," and "Cherokee" (each as tasty as its title) combines with heated drive and hot delivery to meld The Final Countdown into a unique portrait of propulsive prog and a worthy addition to any hard rock collection. Meanwhile, the rest of the disc packs so much power that Swedish superheroes Europe get away with all the processed pretension. But the full-tilt follow-up "Rock the Night" rules also: "You know it ain't easy/Running out of thrills." "Carrie" comes off a consummate butane ballad. One of the most glorious launches in history, the title track for the thrice-platinum The Final Countdown is so bombastically brilliant, such glorious garbage, that this nuclear hair assault could only spew from the vacuous '80s.
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