One of me and Paris’s favorite things to do is sing along to songs and make up dance moves. Sometimes she will sing and dance while I watch and then she’ll point to me and then it’s my turn to break it down. I love this and I hope that it will be as fond of a memory for her when she grows up.
The latest musical flavor of the month is Lady Gaga. At first, I wasn’t into her, but her over the top theatrics, soulful voice and catchy dance beats finally got me and they got Paris too. So when she gets in the car she immediately says, “Lady Gaga, number 3 please” and boom it goes on and we becoming the dancing and singing duo.
Watching her belt out some of the lyrics is one of the funniest things I’ve seen in my whole life. Take this one for an example, “We just like to party like to pa pa party yeah bang bang, we’re beautiful and dirty rich.” And she gets into it to let me tell ya. And if we are out in public, she has no problem at all getting down in front of everyone. She’s even gone so far as to throw on hat in Target and start doing the Thriller dance. Gotta love this kid.
Sometimes I have a moral dilemma though when it comes to letting her listen to certain songs. Lady gaga isn’t exactly Doris Day and when Paris copies her and sings, “I want to take a ride on your disco stick” I cringe because it just doesn’t feel appropriate to have a 7 year old saying disco stick. She even looked at me and said, “I don’t even know what a disco stick is.” Whew! Thank God for that. Or how about when Gwen Stefani’s Hollaback girl came out and she said, “Oooh that’s my sh*% that’s my sh*%. Paris starts singing it and I held my breath while she came to the word and she said, “That’s my ship, that’s my ship.” Lol. So of course, that’s how I sing it now.
My moral dilemma is I feel that even though some songs are a bit on the raunchy side, I don’t think they are bad enough that it’s going to turn my daughter into some video vixen but then again, I’m not really sure. Some songs I will absolutely not let her listen to but others I’m like, eh, no big deal. I guess how I justify it is as long as I’m creating the foundation for a good kid and have open communication then her chances of taking these words to heart and having them dictate who she is is pretty slim. I also don’t think that singing songs that are more provocative in nature is going to drastically change her relationship with boys. I could be wrong, but I don’t think so. I talk to her about boys and I told her the other day that sometimes boys and girls do and say things that doesn’t make the other one feel very good and asked her if that ever happens will she please tell me about it. We pinky swore so that means she will right? At least I hope so. I think it’s when parents don’t pay attention to their kids, act like they could care less what they do or who they hang out with and model poor behavior, that’s when you have to worry about kids behaviors are going to be heavily influenced by the music they listen to.
I can’t shelter her from top 40 radio all her life, just like I’m not going to be able to shelter her from wearing makeup and tight and short clothing. So give a little room to breathe and I think everything will be alright.
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