I Have to Hate Your Music. That’s My Job
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Boy 12 and Girl 15 got Zunes for Christmas. What was Santa thinking?! I mean, c’mon Old Man! As if teens and tweens weren’t already hard enough to talk to, you bring them gadgets that invite them to ignore their parents. Plug in the old headphones and suddenly the “I didn’t hear you” defense is plausible.
Not only that, but it dumps directly into their brains the pop culture trash that it used to be easier for me to filter. Girl 15 registered an account at Amazon.com, using her own debit card, and promptly downloaded songs by…Fergie?! Yes, that Fergie: “Ima git git git you drunk, git you drunk on my lady humps. My humps, my bumps, by lovely lady lumps.” I guess I was hoping she’d go straight to the Zeppelin or Floyd. Or at least The Beatles, for Pete’s sake! So she likes Fergie, despite all my several minutes of erstwhile Fergie mocking. I’d rather not have known that about her. And I’ll never admit it—Girl 15, avert your eyes—but Fergie’s tunes are kind of catchy, even if the lyrics are mind numbing.
I can see the future, and maybe it’s just as well that it come quickly. In the future, I am no longer the pop culture gatekeeper for Boy 12 and Girl 15. It used to be easy to say to boy 12, “Turn that crap off! No way. Not in my house” when he pulled up Slipknot music vids on the family computer. Just like my dad said to me when I played Def Leppard on my crappy stereo. But it won’t be so easy now that he can download vids when I’m not there and watch them in his small private happy space that Zune creates like a bubble. I knew there would come a time when I would have to say, “Go forth and be wise. I’ve taught you well and you are capable of making good decisions on your own.” I just didn’t think it would be today.
January 2nd, 2008 at 8:56 pm
Unfortunately “High School Musical” was the most popular CD in our house until X-mas. Now the “High School Musical 2″ CD is most played.
*sigh*
January 3rd, 2008 at 5:12 am
What the heck is Zunes? Am I really that outta touch????
January 4th, 2008 at 4:41 am
By the time our kids are old enough to want music, it’ll probably be piped directly into their brains by some weird thought process - and Zunes will be SO last decade…
January 5th, 2008 at 7:56 pm
Zune?!? Zune?! You got them Zunes?! Ok, bad Dad. Bad Dad. You have to them iPods–then you will be cool. And smart too!
Thanks for making a Dad Blog, we need more of them!
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