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2 unusual facts about Parents Just Don't Understand


Double knitting

Double knit fabric became popular within 1970s fashion; in the 1989 Grammy Award–winning song "Parents Just Don't Understand", Will Smith comically excoriates his mother for forcing him to wear outdated, 1970s-era "double-knit reversible slacks".

Parents Just Don't Understand

Shakur and Pinkett had been attending the Baltimore School of Performing Arts.


Difference theory

A main proponent of the theory is sociolinguist Deborah Tannen, whose work, especially her 1990 book You Just Don't Understand, is often cited in the discussion of the theory and is considered to be the main reason for its popularisation.

Sleep It Off Records

Reissues of Goodbye Blue and White, Pezcore, Losers, Kings and Things We Don't Understand, and the DVD The People's History of Less Than Jake were released on March 18, 2008 with new artwork.


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