Spin Cycle: My Child the Music Critic

Basically, we listen to one of three radio stations in my car -

1. NPR. Which Jude finds painfully boring, so I mostly only listen to it when I'm alone.
2. 100.3 The Sound. "Album Rock. True Variety". Rock and Roll from the '60s to the '90s. Deep cuts. Tons of music in their rotation. LOVE this station. Jude calls this the "old music station".
3. 102.7 KIIS-FM. Top 40. Ryan Seacrest. We started listening to this about a year ago when I realized that Jude couldn't tell you a single Maroon 5 song. I decided I was doing the kid a disservice. Jude call this the "new music station".

FADE IN:

Gretchen and Jude are driving in the car. Gretchen drives. Jude rides in the backseat. The radio is tuned into the "old music station".

JUDE

Can you turn it to the new music station?

GRETCHEN

(reaching forward and punching the button)

Yeah, sure.

They drive on. LMFAO's Sexy and I Know It comes on the radio.

JUDE

Why does this station play the same music over and over?

GRETCHEN

Well, it's a Top 40 kind of station. They just play the top

most popular songs.

JUDE

(pondering)

Huh.

Eminem/Rihanna's Love the Way You Lie comes on.

JUDE

Is this Eminem?

GRETCHEN

Yep.

JUDE

I can tell because they bleep out all the words.

He is very inappropriate.

GRETCHEN

Yes, he loves his profanity.

JUDE

Why are all of his songs like this. Like...he just talks and then

some lady sings the singing part?

GRETCHEN

Well...he's a rapper. So he, you know, raps.

JUDE

(incredulous)

So he doesn't sing at all?!

GRETCHEN

Uh...no I don't think so. Just raps.

JUDE

(doubtful)

Rap is kind of like poetry I guess.

GRETCHEN

Yeah. It's talking poetry in time with the music.

JUDE

Is this rap a new kind of thing?

GRETCHEN

Well, not really. It's been around since the 1980's.

JUDE

(shaking his head in disbelief)

REALLY?!!

They ride on. David Guetta's Sexy Chick comes on.

JUDE

Why is all the music on this station so...futuristic?

GRETCHEN

Well...I guess that most of the music part is done

electronically. Instead of playing instruments,

it's all played on a keyboard. And they...

(vamping because she doesn't really know)

...sample music on the computer. And they use

electronics to make their voices sound different ways.

JUDE

(aghast)

You mean, the singers aren't really playing the instruments?!

GRETCHEN

Well, some of them do. But like in this song, that's not a drummer

playing the drums, it's a drum machine on the computer.

JUDE

That is just LAME! Ringo played the real drums!

The Beatles played ALL of their instruments!!

GRETCHEN

Well, yeah.

JUDE

And the Rolling Stones! And Bob Dylan! They really played

the instruments! And they sang the songs! They didn't talk them!

GRETCHEN

Yeah, they did.

JUDE

(disgusted)

Turn it back to the old music station.

I can't listen to any more of this!

Gretchen turns the radio back to 100.3. The Rolling Stone comes on. They are playing their own instruments and singing the music. All is right with the world.

FADE OUT.

 

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Lost and Found

"I once was lost, but now am found."

Is there anything that you've lost that you desperately wish you could find? Is there anything that you've found, and wish you hadn't?

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Comments

[Erica@PLRH]

I LOVE this!

[Sarah at 32Flavors]

Hahaha! That's fantastic.

[Alaina]

Your child is awesome. It truly is sad about music today, isn't it?

[Kendra]

This is awesome. And hilarious because most kids are the complete opposite. We have a Doobie Brothers station on Pandora and I told the hubby we should have Leo listen to it so he can experience good music at least a little bit!

[Arnebya]

Laughing because my kids can sing Motown like nobody's business and they too get tired of the same old new music. We watched the history of Soul Train last weekend and when they heard certain songs that they hear today, but only as samples, it made them sit with their mouths open: So you're saying that's NOT Kanye West's song? And all he does is rap (OK some of it's pretty damn clever) and jump across the stage in tight pants and sunglasses? Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying. Now be quiet; Jody Watley is talking.

Really laughing at Jude's sudden realization of the non-singing non-instrument players.

[Jan's Sushi Bar]

I. Love. That. Boy.

Seriously.

[VandyJ]

WE don't listen to much top 40 here--the station is seriously on repeat and I just can't stand the music, we listen to way more country, but we do pull out the MP3 player and do lots of 80's stuff. Turbo looks at us like we're nuts when we start singing along to the B52s or The Eurhythmics. Or even to the many hair bands we have. Bruiser, however, likes to grove to the beat when the music talks to him.

[Ginny Marie]

So awesome! All Lily and Emmy want to listen to in the car is Taylor Swift, so I force them to listen to the country station because maybe they'll play a Taylor Swift song. We have listened to her CD waaay too many times!

Here's my music spin:

http://www.lemondroppie.com/2012/06/music-matters/

[CaJoh]

I do find it amazing when my Stepson pulls out his iPod and starts playing random songs and it's up to my wife and I to guess who it is or sing along.

[Michele]

Seriously the kid knows his music.

[Sprite's Keeper]

Jude, I AGREE COMPLETELY!!!
Sprite is being exposed to a lot of the "new music" thanks to dance camp, and she came home singing "Call me Maybe". Sigh, oh well..

[Alaina]

So my husband read this and he just said that Jude is his new hero :-)

[Alaina]

Here's my spin for the week! http://viewfromdownhere-viewfromdownhere.blogspot.com/2012/07/lost-and-found.html

[CaJoh]

Here's my lost and found spin:
http://cajoh.blogspot.com/2012/07/tip-of-my-finger.html