Old people: "I don't get Lil Nas."
Me: "I don't get Lil Nas, but I also don't get Steely Dan."
I've filed Steely Dan alongside Woody Allen movies in the folder of things that sophisticated people think are amazing but I will never understand the appeal of.
-k
You 'get' Steely Dan AND Woody Allen but you don't like them.
Steely Dan is crazy complicated music made to sound simple, recorded with the most perfectionism ever and delivered with wry lyrics.