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Drove across the state today (after working all morning). For the record a lot of people drive on the Thruway on Friday afternoons.
Middle-Little was Christmas shopping. She knows the Southerly Niblings best of all of us, having lived with them briefly in Georgia a few years ago. Whenever she visits, the middle boy always asks her to play him We Didn’t Start The Fire on her phone because inexplicably he loves that song So Much. She has thought for some time that it would be good to get the kids some way to play music on their own; we had CD players and such as kids (I had a tape player from the time I was about 10, and a clock radio that could pick up FM even before that, though I didn’t know how to change the station from NPR until about 10), but music sort of doesn’t work that way now. So she found $45 mp3 players, and headphones, and SD cards to expand the storage in said mp3 players, and so us three aunts are going in on that as a gift. (I just pulled the trigger on buying them today because then we can charge them up and get music on them before wrapping them as gifts.)
So I was going through my mp3s. I use a streaming service now, but I have 30GB of mp3s in various hard drives.
I don’t know, though. These kids are 5, 7 no 8 this week, and 9 no 10 next month.
I figure that’s too old to just get ‘em kids’ music. I mean, sure, Sandra Boynton, but they’re old enough to want to listen to real music. (Even the little one, she loves to plug in her mom’s old iPod which is in the kitchen and loaded up with her father’s iTunes library circa 2007, which is a little uh sadly dated and way too heavy on the Faith Hill for my tastes but she’s five, she doesn’t care.)
So… what’s good music for small people??? I figure most classic rock is fair game, and a ton of the 90s stuff that’s still on the radio now, you don’t have to understand it to jam to it. I want to give them diverse genres, like electronica and blues and hip-hop, but like. if Kanye has any kid-friendly songs, they’re not on the albums *I* have. So that’s a challenge. (Dammit Nikki even “Fly” has one very clear “motherfucker” in it.)
I mean, their dad teaches them swears recreationally, so maybe it doesn’t matter. I’ll have to touch base with their mom.
(She, by the way, has gotten a high-powered job with the Maryland National Guard now, and her husband is currently in Estonia with same, so. Yikes.)
Drove across the state today (after working all morning). For the record a lot of people drive on the Thruway on Friday afternoons.
Middle-Little was Christmas shopping. She knows the Southerly Niblings best of all of us, having lived with them briefly in Georgia a few years ago. Whenever she visits, the middle boy always asks her to play him We Didn’t Start The Fire on her phone because inexplicably he loves that song So Much. She has thought for some time that it would be good to get the kids some way to play music on their own; we had CD players and such as kids (I had a tape player from the time I was about 10, and a clock radio that could pick up FM even before that, though I didn’t know how to change the station from NPR until about 10), but music sort of doesn’t work that way now. So she found $45 mp3 players, and headphones, and SD cards to expand the storage in said mp3 players, and so us three aunts are going in on that as a gift. (I just pulled the trigger on buying them today because then we can charge them up and get music on them before wrapping them as gifts.)
So I was going through my mp3s. I use a streaming service now, but I have 30GB of mp3s in various hard drives.
I don’t know, though. These kids are 5, 7 no 8 this week, and 9 no 10 next month.
I figure that’s too old to just get ‘em kids’ music. I mean, sure, Sandra Boynton, but they’re old enough to want to listen to real music. (Even the little one, she loves to plug in her mom’s old iPod which is in the kitchen and loaded up with her father’s iTunes library circa 2007, which is a little uh sadly dated and way too heavy on the Faith Hill for my tastes but she’s five, she doesn’t care.)
So… what’s good music for small people??? I figure most classic rock is fair game, and a ton of the 90s stuff that’s still on the radio now, you don’t have to understand it to jam to it. I want to give them diverse genres, like electronica and blues and hip-hop, but like. if Kanye has any kid-friendly songs, they’re not on the albums *I* have. So that’s a challenge. (Dammit Nikki even “Fly” has one very clear “motherfucker” in it.)
I mean, their dad teaches them swears recreationally, so maybe it doesn’t matter. I’ll have to touch base with their mom.
(She, by the way, has gotten a high-powered job with the Maryland National Guard now, and her husband is currently in Estonia with same, so. Yikes.)
