I heard the sad news this evening that a suspected terrorist bombing cost the lives of 19 people, with another 55 or so injured. This happened in England at an Ariana Grande concert.
Who?
Really. I had to Google the name 'Ariana Grande,' as it registered not at all on my radar of current events and people.
According to Wikipedia, Ariana Grande was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world on the annual Time 100 list. And to think, I've never heard of her. I've never heard that her debut album in 2013 debuted at No. 1 on the US Billboard 200. As did her second album in 2014.
I must have been in a coma.
I've never heard the songs, "Problem", "Break Free", "Bang Bang" and "Love Me Harder" and couldn't identify them if they were aired over the grocery store's speaker system. I know I'm getting old, but where have I been these past four years?
When I heard of the attack, I wondered to myself, "Why a concert by this person named Ariana Grande?" Now I know. She's obviously the hot property of the moment. My heart goes out to the people affected by this senseless act, which obviously was targeted at a younger audience.
And yet, I was so clueless about the name Ariana Grande, that when the news hit, my first reaction was, "Huh?"