Day 40 – Black Monday
The continuing adventures of “Eric’s Trip Around the Sun”. One final trip with the iPod.
I came home today, on this Monday, running into a very excited three and a half year old asking me if I liked the song that was being played on Spotify. It was from a band named Houndmouth and the song was titled ‘Sedona’. Having never heard this song in my life, I was a bit confused at first wondering where Dylan had heard this song. After hearing the story from Lisa, it sounds as if he had heard this song off of WXRT.
An oh shit moment for sure.
Backstory: Dylan has graduated to listening to WXRT when he goes to bed. We typically keep the radio on all night so he has music playing in his room all night. We have used this as a little bit of back noise to combat some of the airplanes flying overhead. While this has been helpful getting him to sleep, it has also caused some issues such as an episode last week when Dylan ran into our room when both of us were still sleeping and informing us that the “The elephant song is on the radio”. (i.e. Tame Impala – Elephant). So he does listen to plenty of music on his own only being influenced by the nighttime DJ’s at WXRT.
Here was a song that he had listened to by himself on the radio without any influence from either of the parent figures. I know that they are not listening to this kind of music at at school as they are too busy watching me Nae Nae song.
It was not just that he had picked out this song but that it was actually good. It was not some crap band or song (i.e. ‘Bert – Doing the Pigeon’) nor a song that was preferred by one of us.
Immediately, we had to check out the schedule and found out that they are playing Talia Hall soon. I think both of us looked at each other and wondered the ethics for a moment about going to a concert for a band that your 3 year old turned you onto but not bring him along because he is too young. I am not really sure of the answer to that one yet.
I am wondering at what age I am going to start digging through his collection to see what he is listening to.
• Catherine Wheel – Black Metallic
• St. Vincent – Black Rainbow
• Women – Black Rice
• Elliott Smith – Bled White