Ok, when did I put my head in the gutter recently? I have been listening to kid’s songs for months now, but just today I heard them a whole different way. Like the chorus of Yankee Doodle:
“Yankee Doodle keep it up
Yankee Doodle dandy
Mind the music and the step
And with the girls be handy”
“With the girls be handy”????
There is more, but instead I will pull myself out of the gutter and ask another question about music. Will my children be seriously demented because they listen to Jazz, Classical, Country and Janet Jackson? When I am in a rather odd mood, I have a Janet Jackson CD I listen too… a lot. That mood has hit me lately. The Country? Because it the station with the best Road reports. And I listen to anything and everything except Acid Rock. Just can’t hear Acid Rock as real music. To me it is just noise. From Stone Temple Pilots to Travis Tritt to AC/DC and so on… I’ll listen.
Lately though, it has been Jazz, Classical or Country. With Janet thrown in for a day or two. Wonder what my boys will listen to when they grow up after having this for months at a time?
6 comments:
I have a eight month old little girl. I often think the same thing. Will the fact that I play Dave Matthews Band over and over and over in the car have an effect on her?? What about my addiction to talk radio?? My only hope for her future "musical choice" is that she does not become a gangster rap fan. I hate gangster rap
Then my baby has no chance. Between the rock, country, celtic lullabys & Irish pub songs... and talk radio. No chance at all!
I forgot about Talk Radio... NPR... oh geeze... add that to the list. When I'm running around in the mornings I listen to that too.
My kids listen to Pink Floyd and The Who with their Dad and with me they listen to Alternative or 80s music. That is all they like now... except some classical (my influence).
If it matters at all, I think listening to several different kinds of music is probably better for kids that hearing the same thing all the time. It probably doesn't matter a whole lot though. I heard mostly country music until I was about 12 or 13, then a lot of pop and R&R in the 70's, and now I listen to classical most of the time with a few oldies just once in a while. Musically, kids will go their own way no matter what we do.
I found you at Harvey's, by the way.
Lynn
Reflections in d minor
[blushes]
Thanks, Lynn. I'm always flattered when I find out you've been reading me :-)
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