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November 19, 2006
Riding with Alexis
I was taking Alexis to BJ's in my car this morning, since Dianne was out shopping with a friend and we needed some real bread. My car radio was tuned to NPR from my commute so I immediately turned it off, the world is a bad place, so the less she knows about its current problems the better from my point of a view. Alexis pipes up "play some music daddy". In Dianne's Highlander we have a 5 disk changer and number 3 is just Alexis songs on random spin. My car predates the need for such luxuries. So she's just got my music disk, mentally I go through the CD's content, only 1 song I would worry about her hearing, so I'll watch out for it. I was listening along and "Victory" by Yolanda Adams came on the CD player.
Alexis: looking up from the back seat and said in that utterly amazed and awestruck voice only children can manage, "What kind of music is that daddy???"
Jamison's brain: What is she talking about?
Jamison's filter: This is not the song I was set to filter on.
Jamison's brain: What song is on?
Jamison's ears: "Victory"
Jamison's brain: Hey, I like that song!
Jamison's brain: What did Alexis ask?
Jamison's ears: What kind of music is that?
Jamison: "That's Gospel Music, Alexis".
Alexis: "Ospel Music, why ospel music daddy?"
Jamison's brain: Hmmm....how do you explain that one?
Jamison cynical side: Well you could tell the truth that before the rise of the Evangelical movement that Gospel music used to be the most uplifting and happy music on earth...
Jamison good parent side: Definitely wouldn't make Dianne happy, her people may have sucked the soul out of Gospel music, but we are definitely going to have to do some spin on that information to keep things balanced.
Jamison's politico side: Let's just be light on the facts and she can discover them for herself later.
Jamison: "Well Gospel Music is music about articles of faith dear."
Alexis: "It's so good daddy."
Jamison: "Yes dear."
Somehow I think that Yolanda may have destroyed her future as a funeral dirge singing evangelical spiritual type girl. Which is fine by me, it's supposed to be freaking uplifting. Too many no talent fools have been allowed to destroy Gospel music especially in the South. If you can't carry a tune, it's not a joyful noise, it's just noise! End of discussion.
Posted by Jamison at November 19, 2006 2:54 PM