Seriously? What isn't current these days? Everything that is seen or heard or touched or tasted for the first time is happening right now. Over breakfast the wise child sings along to a song on the Bose ("You've paid the tax, he's the queer of the shore"), and her mother corrects her.
"A what?" she says.
"A mondegreen," says the mother.
A kid in my neighbourhood has discovered the Beatles. She thinks they're the same age as Arijit Singh. Because her ear is a microphone, and her hands are huge and flexible, she can play whatever she hears.
This is a problem for her mother, who channeled her daughter into expensive piano lessons with a teacher who quit on them because all she wanted to play one day was the Beatles' "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds", and when she started to sing along he barked at her and she responded with Rachmaninoff's "Allegro Agitato" and "wiped his ass with it," the father keeps saying, proudly, and the "real reason" why his daughter's teacher quit.
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