The sound of music
Just recently as I was driving to work, a song
came on the radio that I remembered listening to when I was in my early
twenties. What had happened, was earlier
that morning my 23 year old son had been driving my car, and had changed the
radio station. When I heard the song “Liven on a Pray” by Bon Jovi, I started thinking
about the different kinds of music I had listened to over the years. From the
lullabies my mother sang to me as an infant. To my preschool years of singing “The Wheels
on the Bus Go Round and Round” or singing “Jesus Loves Me” in Sunday school.
By the early to mid-70’s my teenage years, I remember
listing to music from the Bee gees, Shaun Cassidy, and Leif Garret. Unless my
parents were home or in the car, then we would listen to country music. Usually
music from artist like Charlie Pride, Tammy Wynette or Donna Fargo.
Then the 80’s rolled around, it was time to Rock N Roll. My
husband and enjoyed listening to and attending concerts of AC/DC, Def Leppard,
Metallica, and Guns N’ Roses. Then in
the mid 80’s it happened, parenthood, what an amazing time. I went from listing
and attended rock concerts to singing lullabies. Before I knew it, I was back to sing “The
Wheels on the Bus Go Round and Round” and “Jesus loves me” with my children. As my sons were growing up, I noticed them listening to and enjoying
some of the same performers and bands that my husband and I enjoyed when we
were younger.
Music is a universal language that never goes out of style. I grew up listening to the same music as my mother, like you, Bon Jovi, Metallica, Judas Priest, etc. Then when I was in my teens in the 90's and early 00's, I started listening to heavier music. But it would never fail, I would go back to what my other listened to when she was younger and what I grew up with. Its funny how that works.
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