I Just Can't Kick It New School
There was a time that I was addicted to the radio and music. I had an AM radio and from the moment I woke up until AM radio signed off at sunset I was listening to it or trying to listen to it. I would be breathless on Sunday morning waiting to find out if my favorite song made it to number one. I would feel sad if a song I didn't really like got there. Even worse if a song I hated stayed on number one. Top 40 music gave me a wide listening option and I loved soul, R&B, bubble gum, easy listening, rock, etc.
In my teens I was forced to choose. I say forced because I wanted to be like all other teens independent, a free thinker, different, and Oh yeah love the same kind of music my friends liked. One guy was talking about Led Zepplin and I said "Oh I Love Stairway to Heaven." OMG he and his friends laughed and gave me a tongue lashing about how all I probably listened to was top 40 (which of course was true) and that wasn't real music. I was then informed what was real music. I listened to top 40 at home and when I was with friends I listened to Zepplin. When my parents moved us to Winchester it was just as bad. I was still loving top 40 music, no longer listening to American Top 40s but now I was listening to Fleetwood Mac and more FM stations. When I moved back to DC, enter the Disco warp. I loved it. I could hear it on my old favorite station WPGC. I loved to dance and that's what they were playing at the clubs. The problem was guys hated it for the most part. Especially the one I would marry, Steve. He loved southern rock and introduced me to the Outlaws and so I wound up listening to album rock stations and carrying around a transistor radio so as not to miss my favorite djs.
Eventually the whole DJ thing became the show for me. Most of the music I liked was disappearing and although early rap was OK like Will Smith and all I really am not crazy about rap now.
Of course the songs played most on the rap stations turn into big I hate this stuff fests for me. For example, I am not crazy about "I ain't sayin' she's a gold digga. but she ain't messing with no broke, broke......", songs about booties, licking, lapping, etc, and one that really sets my teeth on edge is that shake your laffy taffy.Now just to show you how really old and out of the loop I am, a few months ago two boys in my class thought it would be funny to say skeet, skeet, skeet occassionally when I walked by or if I had my backed turn so I could point out something out on the board. I asked them to stop. I had no clue what it meant. I honestly thought it was a stupid sound effect. Heck years ago I had this boy who liked to make sheep noises in class because he thought it was entertaining and just like these two boys they got a lot of chuckles when they said it. So here I am stupid, 46 y/o, out of the loop, let's listen to some AC/DC or Ozzy, stuck on stupid. I'm thinking this is the some kind of thing just some stupid sound that they are making. I mean last year I had kids who would think it was funny to yell out I'm Rick James if the class was too quiet to suit them. So after about three days I had guessed who was doing it, caught who was doing it, warned them, and threatened to give them D-hall because they shouldn't be yelling things out in class. I went home and told my husband because I was just so frustrated.Now my husband is 14 years younger than me. He listens to rap and when I'm in his car I am forced to do the same. I told him how these boys are making me crazy with the stupid noise. He is about falling out laughing at me. He makes me swear I don't know what it means. Uh hello. It's me. I'm the one who recognizes the songs in the elevator. Well let me tell you when he explained it to me I was SO ANGRY!!!!!!!!!!!! I came to school that monday with fire coming out of my ears. I hauled those boys out in the hall and told them that now that I was aware what the definition of the word they were using was I would skip the D-hall and go straight to suspension. i told them that since it is my job to teach them how to get and keep a job they would be wise to realize that there are quite a number of men who find themselves in court when they harrass a woman in a sexual manner. Nothing else was said. They were quiet. They didn't try to ask me what i thought it meant or try to deny that it meant something wrong. I think the court thing kind of threw them. They have since stopped that. I HATE that song. Not only the skeet skeet skeet part but the stupid beat behind it and what the heck is laffy taffy if it isn't candy?
In my teens I was forced to choose. I say forced because I wanted to be like all other teens independent, a free thinker, different, and Oh yeah love the same kind of music my friends liked. One guy was talking about Led Zepplin and I said "Oh I Love Stairway to Heaven." OMG he and his friends laughed and gave me a tongue lashing about how all I probably listened to was top 40 (which of course was true) and that wasn't real music. I was then informed what was real music. I listened to top 40 at home and when I was with friends I listened to Zepplin. When my parents moved us to Winchester it was just as bad. I was still loving top 40 music, no longer listening to American Top 40s but now I was listening to Fleetwood Mac and more FM stations. When I moved back to DC, enter the Disco warp. I loved it. I could hear it on my old favorite station WPGC. I loved to dance and that's what they were playing at the clubs. The problem was guys hated it for the most part. Especially the one I would marry, Steve. He loved southern rock and introduced me to the Outlaws and so I wound up listening to album rock stations and carrying around a transistor radio so as not to miss my favorite djs.
Eventually the whole DJ thing became the show for me. Most of the music I liked was disappearing and although early rap was OK like Will Smith and all I really am not crazy about rap now.
Of course the songs played most on the rap stations turn into big I hate this stuff fests for me. For example, I am not crazy about "I ain't sayin' she's a gold digga. but she ain't messing with no broke, broke......", songs about booties, licking, lapping, etc, and one that really sets my teeth on edge is that shake your laffy taffy.Now just to show you how really old and out of the loop I am, a few months ago two boys in my class thought it would be funny to say skeet, skeet, skeet occassionally when I walked by or if I had my backed turn so I could point out something out on the board. I asked them to stop. I had no clue what it meant. I honestly thought it was a stupid sound effect. Heck years ago I had this boy who liked to make sheep noises in class because he thought it was entertaining and just like these two boys they got a lot of chuckles when they said it. So here I am stupid, 46 y/o, out of the loop, let's listen to some AC/DC or Ozzy, stuck on stupid. I'm thinking this is the some kind of thing just some stupid sound that they are making. I mean last year I had kids who would think it was funny to yell out I'm Rick James if the class was too quiet to suit them. So after about three days I had guessed who was doing it, caught who was doing it, warned them, and threatened to give them D-hall because they shouldn't be yelling things out in class. I went home and told my husband because I was just so frustrated.Now my husband is 14 years younger than me. He listens to rap and when I'm in his car I am forced to do the same. I told him how these boys are making me crazy with the stupid noise. He is about falling out laughing at me. He makes me swear I don't know what it means. Uh hello. It's me. I'm the one who recognizes the songs in the elevator. Well let me tell you when he explained it to me I was SO ANGRY!!!!!!!!!!!! I came to school that monday with fire coming out of my ears. I hauled those boys out in the hall and told them that now that I was aware what the definition of the word they were using was I would skip the D-hall and go straight to suspension. i told them that since it is my job to teach them how to get and keep a job they would be wise to realize that there are quite a number of men who find themselves in court when they harrass a woman in a sexual manner. Nothing else was said. They were quiet. They didn't try to ask me what i thought it meant or try to deny that it meant something wrong. I think the court thing kind of threw them. They have since stopped that. I HATE that song. Not only the skeet skeet skeet part but the stupid beat behind it and what the heck is laffy taffy if it isn't candy?
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