The GCW Tour, Spain & Morocco: Let's Do the Time Warp

Before I left for Spain, one of my cultural informants mentioned that the niece might like shopping in Spain as the Spanish are a couple of years ahead of Americans on the fashion front. 

Given that I am completely lacking in that area, I can't really comment on the Spanish fashion sense, but I can say they're about 25 years behind America in popular music. 

It seems everywhere we go the radios are playing songs that were playing on my radio in high school. Madonna, The Police, Suzanne Vega, Mr. Mister, Wilson Phillips -- it's like two-plus decades of pop music haven't even happened.

It makes me wonder if they're choosing the music for their own benefit or, assuming most tourists who are now roughly my age will be more likely to hang out and spend money if surrounded by the music of their youth, for the benefit of tourists like me.

Yeah, I think it's probably the latter, too.

But that doesn't make it any less weird to hear "Like A Virgin" playing in the open air market.