For just about The Bella’s entire life, I’ve been regulated to listening to nothing but The Beatles. They are her most favorite, and for the first four years of her life, no other musical groups existed. I have every. single. released. The Beatles track. ever. in my iTunes. About 10-15 GBs of ‘em. All for her, and her sister.
Over the past year or so she’s been teeter-tottering between Michael Jackson and The Beatles, with a bit of Queen, David Bowie and Lady Gaga thrown in for good measure. It’s been better, needless to say, because while I fucking love The Beatles OMG PLEASE CAN WE LISTEN TO SOMETHING ELSE is what goes through my head every time we get in the car.
Anyway, recently, she’s been expanding her musical tastes. She proclaimed a while ago that she didn’t like the kind of music where “people talk when they should be singing” (ie., rap), but then she heard It Takes Two by Rob Base & DJ E Z Rock and she was won over. I was relieved. Since then, she bounces around to all the hip hop she hears in the car, and I love it.
The other day, she asked me to put ‘Love Will Tear Us Apart’ on her iPod. Cool. I obliged. Any child that likes Joy Division is awesome, needless to say. She was singing ‘The Crystal Ship’ to herself while she was coloring last week. The Doors? Girl you’re blowing my mind with this shit. I have a habit of playing The Smiths when I’m in the bathtub, and she has a habit of refusing to let me get any peace, and demanding I put ‘This Charming Man’ on repeat and bouncing around, singing along. I can’t even kick her out because really, that’s just amazing.
Then yesterday, she asked me to put ‘Say Aah’ by Trey Songz on her iPod when we were on our way home. I was like, “okay, sure – glad to see you opening up to more than the classics”. When we got back, I was about to, but I decided to listen more to the lyrics because Trey Songz is a nasty (SEXY AS ALL HELL) dude. And, maybe I’m being paranoid, but am I wrong in thinking that this whole song is *really* about swallowing jizz, rather than liquor?
I’m not sure I want her singing this. It’s a great song, but it’s weird enough to hear her singing “Why Don’t We Do It in The Road” at the top of her lungs. I’m pretty sure I can’t handle this, even if it’s not about that, because in the back of my head, I think it might be.
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Listening to: Trey Songz – Say Aah ft. Fabolous
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March 11, 2010 at 10:07 am
HURRAH FOR CHILD MUSIC NERDS!
My single most greatest achievement (apart from having the two wee babas) is that Ben (he’s 5) also loves the Beatles and Joy Division, he likes the Prodigy, he likes the Dead 60′s, Micah P. Hinson and loads of other stuff that is not HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL.
Small blessings, indeed!
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March 11, 2010 at 11:14 am
Oh, don’t get me wrong: she likes that kind of stuff too! All of us are pretty much in love with the boys from the new Nickelodeon show “Big Time Rush” and their adorable little songs. They’re so cute! :)
But yes, it feels pretty good to have a kid with such well rounded musical tastes. We can definitely pat ourselves on the back!
I love that kid!
March 11, 2010 at 11:18 am
LOL, she’s pretty great.
March 11, 2010 at 10:49 am
Let me start by saying you’re an amazing mother. Secondly, it’s amazing that Bella is expanding her musical taste. I’m happy for her! Say Aah is a really vulgar song and it’s a good thing you won’t let her listen to it. Teachers use songs to help children her age memorize things, and that presents a problem when kids remember everything they heard in a song. I was faced with the same choice when my twelve year old sister asked me to put music on her mp3 player. She wanted Nicki Minaj and I refused. She’s brainless and a horrible role model for my sister. Good work, María. As always. :)
March 11, 2010 at 11:17 am
Aww, shucks. :P
She doesn’t understand what the song is about, which is fine, she really just likes the song itself, and I do too – when we hear it in the car it always gets turned up – but really, Trey Songz is completely inappropriate for her. For me, too, actually but you know. I’s grown.
We went through a phase of Puff the Magic Dragon on endless repeat. Now though, Springsteen, Pink Martini, Prince and the soundtrack to Hair are all in heavy rotation.
March 12, 2010 at 12:22 am
Haha, I don’t think they’ve ever heard Puff The Magic Dragon. *Puts that on her iPod*
March 11, 2010 at 5:11 pm
I have the same uncomfortable feeling when some of my kids at school come in singing some of the more sexually charged pop songs. Worst, though, is when they know really risque dance moves to go along with them. I just want to slap their parents and tell them that teaching a 4 year old, whether intentionally or not, to dance in a suggestive manner while singing sexy songs is like inviting one of the pedophiles around here (and we have a 7 page long list of registered ones alone) to have thoughts about your kid that you don’t want them to have. And what if that’s just the push they need to DO something about those thoughts? *shudders* Some of these kids dress like prostitots anyways.
I know it’s innocent, and god knows I don’t shelter Rhi from anything I listen to, musically. And I don’t think it damages their fragile psyches or any nonsense like that. It just weirds me out momentarily. Way longer if dancing is also involved, like I said.
March 12, 2010 at 12:25 am
I don’t shelter mine from music either, really, but I’m really uncomfortable hearing her sing this shit. LOL.
See, I know for a fact that songs we listened to as kids were dirty, but as kids, we just had no idea. We liked the music – hell – we might’ve even liked the words – but we didn’t “grasp” what the hell we were singing about. So far, with Z, all I’ve really censored from her even hearing is Nirvana’s “Rape Me”, because I know she’ll ask me what it means and I am not really up for that conversation, yet. (And she freaking loves Nirvana.) As for all the rest – I know she doesn’t get it. So I listen freely – and encourage her love of music, even when some of it makes me cringe.
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March 12, 2010 at 12:27 am
I don’t remember every turning a song off because I thought it was inappropriate. Except Uncle Kracker. EVERYTHING HE HAS EVER DONE IS INAPPROPRIATE.
I want my kids to love Nirvana now. Stop being cooler than me, the both of you.
Holy hell his smile is sexy! It’s awesome she loves such good music. I have found myself listening and vetoing songs for my girls..
March 12, 2010 at 12:28 am
Fuck yeah his smile is sexy. Amongst other things, Jesus Christ. *fans self with church fan*
I’m along the same lines as Sybil Law. I pretty much listen freely when in the car or even in the house, but if there is a song that is just a little too much I’ll hit the skip button. I have nightmares about being forced to listen to “kids songs” while in the car, I can’t handle that, lol.
Rock on Bella =).
March 12, 2010 at 12:28 am
LOL. I like kid’s songs!! Some of them, at least. Some are really cute!
March 12, 2010 at 6:04 am
I’m with you. We have lots of fun evenings where we sit and listen through our iTunes library on random with my girls, and sometimes they find something we love that they like, too, and it’s awesome. This summer, they were particularly Michael Jackson and Madonna obsessed. But sometimes I want them to stop loudly singing Like A Virgin, even though I know it’s not that bad. But they also like Rilo Kiley and Outkast and other things I can’t think of right now. But I won’t hesitate to listen to their Radio Disney songs either! Right now, they only want to listen to the Buffy the Vampire Slayer musical soundtrack in the car.
March 15, 2010 at 7:48 am
They listen to Madonna in the car, and I think Ari is starting to like her, but I’ve not gotten an opinion on her either way. Yeah, I’d probably be a little freaked out by my kids yelling “touched for the very first time!” out loud. LOL.
I think you are right and the song is about jizz. Yeah, I’d have a bit of trouble listening to my kid sing that.
My kids aren’t quite as musically adventurous as yours are but the do tend to have good taste in music.
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March 15, 2010 at 7:50 am
I KNEW IT! I think it really hit me at the end where he says something like “open up girl, no hands” or something like that. I was like “wait…how is this supposed to…you can’t drink from a cup without…oh wait…what is this i dont even”
You are not appropriate listening material for my children Trey Songz! No more than ‘it’s on the radio and I won’t turn’ type listening at least.