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 Posted: Mon 1:42, 02 Sep 2013 Post subject: Music used to make me smile |
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Music used to make me smile,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]
While flipping through the menu, not really thinking about anything, I started quietly singing to myself: "All my life I've always wanted / To have one day just for me / Nothing to do and for once nowhere I need to be. . . "
I stopped as the server approached with my martini. But a few minutes later,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], while swirling olives and staring into space, I suddenly thought,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], "Was I just singing a song from Barbie: The Princess and The Pauper?"
And then, as vegetables were diced or magazines were exchanged, the LED graphic equalizer on the stereo would flicker to life and a medley of tunes would spill out of the speakers into our ears.
We never thought about music in the same way we never thought about oxygen: It was an invisible and essential part of our life,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych].
But these days,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], with four-year-old twin daughters in our midst, we no longer have much say in what we hear.
And so we do think about music. We think about it in the same way we think about root canal procedures. There are no surprises,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], only looming threats. Music is now a discomfort,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], a crusher of dreams,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], a complex antagonist.
It all started a couple of years ago when we entered the Nursery Rhyme Era (NRE). Preceded by the Lullaby Era (LE) and before that, the Prenatal White Noise and Other Comforting Sounds Era (PWNAOCSE), the NRE was the beginning of the end.
Music,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], as we once knew it,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], ceased to exist.
If I even tip-toed within five feet of my iPod, it was only a matter of seconds before a little person was tottering behind me, clapping and making binding demands disguised as charming requests:
"Me want Old MacDonald,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]! Me want Wheels On The Bus,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]! Me want Itsy Bitsy Spider! Me want Row Row Row Your Boat,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]! Me want Jack and Jill!"
"Okay,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], sweetheart," I would say, a grimacing smile giving way to a doomed negotiation. "How about we hear one of your songs and then one of Daddy's songs?"
Bands such as Arcade Fire or Coldplay no longer received airtime in our living room. The albums I purchased through iTunes invariably had the words "Toddler" or "Sunshine" or "Fun" somewhere in the title. Our ears were now at the grim mercy of singing dinosaurs and musicians with no surnames who believed only in lyrical repetition, absurdist situations and suspiciously similar melodies.
Yes, I get it. Bingo was his name-o. You don't have to tell me four dozen times. Really. Oh,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], come on. Why would Sukey take the kettle off again after Polly just put it on? This makes no sense. And have you ever listened to The A-B-C Song and Twinkle Twinkle back-to-back?
Spoiler alert: They are the same song,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych].
How we survived the NRE,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], I will never know. I still sometimes wake up in a cold sweat after having a nightmare about black lambs and little sheep and mulberry bushes.
But as bad as the NRE was,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the situation is now worse.
We are living through the Animated Soundtrack Era (ASE), a glittering catalogue of Disney Princesses and Barbie Characters. And the worst part? Many of these songs are actually catchy to adult ears.
So not only are my wife and I not listening to our music,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]. We are singing their music. We are prisoners inside their make-believe world,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych].
I don't know what to do. I've tried to get my girls hooked on "big people" songs. This plan almost never works. But even when it does, it backfires spectacularly and suddenly we're listening to K'naan's "Wavin' Flag" 142 times a day.
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