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March 3, 2008
Naughty Bits
My kids love the music. They are super entertained by music -- dancing, singing along and humming melodies long after the track has ended. Henry, while only 10 months old, immediately calms down or begins dancing at the first few bars of a hummed, sung or played song. Liv loves videos, often talking for months about one she loved... a few examples: Modest Mouse Dashboard -- she references as the song where the guy had a microphone on his hand, and Vampire Weekend she talks about the band where they play each other's drums and sing under water.
So, music is a big part of our house, and we don't generally listen to distinct kids music (except for Music Together stuff and They Might Be Giants). We listen on the radio (KALX), XM (XMU), the car stereo, the ipod, and the computers. And I listen freely -- I don't sensor what we play, because for the most part naughty stuff didn't register. For a long while Liv's favorite song was Falling Through Your Clothes buy the New Pornographers -- which repeats "god damn" over and over. She loved Lily Allen's Alfie, which is about a teenage boy who smokes weed and masturbates in his room, and Vampire's Weekend has a chirped 'Whothefuckcaresaboutanoxfordcomma" which starts the lyrics to the semi-eponymous Oxford Comma. Oh, and who can forget Magnetic Field's Too Drunk to Dream's repeated use of "Shit-faced"?
At some point, and I hope this is a while off, she's going to ask me what all of this means. And then perhaps we'll need to talk about strong words and their place in Art and Music and not in casual five-year-old conversation.
Posted by tdotjay at March 3, 2008 3:38 PM
