A better education in music, kiddo. We were watching the grammys last night while the kids were in and out of the room pretending to get ready for bed. There were some cool throwbacks to Frank Sinatra and the Beatles I guess becasue it was the 50th anneversary of the grammys. Whatever. During one of the Beatles tributes, my daughter (8) says “oh no, not the Target commercial!” It was All You Need Is Love by the fab four!
Oh man. I’m failing badly in the music education department. She didn’t know who the Beatles were! I hope to remedy this very soon. Now I’m worried what other perversions of music she has been subjected to that I should straighten out. The one funny one that comes to mind is this classic. Who ya gonna call? If you shout Ghostbusters — you’re with me. If you shout Auto-Way! I must assume you’re 12 years old or less. I can let the Ghostbusters go- it’s no great loss. The Beatles? I’ve got work to do.
Has this happened to other parents out there?
– steve
February 11th, 2008 at 5:42 am
Do you want to borrow the John & Paul statues I put on my daughter’s desk when she was 1?
She also has a small MP3 player with speakers on her desk. It’s filled with the Beatles catalog and other songs. Since she was very little, we’ve made a game of guessing who was singing lead when a Beatles song starts. She still guesses “Ringo” first 50% of the time.
All the Beatles indoctrination, and her favorite songs are “Werewolves of London” and “American Pie.” What can you do?
February 11th, 2008 at 8:00 am
Perhaps she would do well to start with Juice Newton?
After seeing your first 10 iTunes songs, I can see where some of the deficiencies are coming from . . .
February 11th, 2008 at 12:39 pm
Now, now. You have to work up to the Juice.
As for my iTunes list…it’s a lot less representative of my daily listening than an iPod 10 would have been. Looking at my iTunes stats, I have 10960 songs from 1943 artists in 62 genres. And I probably have about 100 cds I haven’t ripped yet. My tastes are catholic, yo.
And, I have seven (7) Juice Newton songs in that list. You want I should make you a copy?
February 11th, 2008 at 12:43 pm
…unless you’re talking about Steve’s iTunes list…which, uh, of course, yeah, now that was some crazy list. Poor kid.
(…slinks off to listen to Dev2.0…)