My moms musical experience




So for this blog I will be doing something a bit different compared to my usual style. I will be interviewing my mother and sharing her musical experience in this blog. The format I will be using is like a script. So without further ado lets begin.

Me: Thank you so much for taking time out of your day to do this interview

Mom: No problem :)

Me: What is your earliest memory of music?

Mom: Oh, that's easy...my earliest memory of music was in bible school when i was little. The first song we learned was Jesus loves me.

Me: Would you like to delve deeper into how that experience went, if you can remember?

mom: Sure, at my church we had a little missionary group called GAs which would be all girls and in that group we would sing at bible school and begun with Jesus loves me and built upon that during bible schools and then performed in front of the congregation

Me: Do you remember any of the other songs that you learned? 

Mom: (Enthusiastically) YES, there was this one song that we sung which went like "If the devil doesnt like it he can sit on a tack (she did not know the name of the song).

Me: What kind of music would you associate with your childhood? please go through the stages of your childhood and how the music evolved as you got older?

Mom: well...I grew up in north Carolina so I think mostly throughout my young childhood I listented to country music. My granny and papa would listen to country music at there farm house and we would sit on the porch and play outside. Looking into my childhood the music I listened to was more on TV because that was the big thing. I used to watch Micheal Jackson on MTV EVERY SINGLE DAY.

Me: What do you mean you watched the song on MTV?

Mom: MTV was a new concept in the 80s and they had "How did Michael Jackson make his thriller song and video" and you could see how they made thriller video and how the cast learned how to dance with his music. It was amazing! We watched it literally 52 times a day by we I meant my cousins and me. It was great! High school was more Madonna and Bon Jovi and Death leopard was more big hair bands. Like hair spray bands...because I love Hair spray still in 2022. 

Me: What do you mean by Hair Spray? 

Mom: The band! Well I love hair spray in general sppppphhh (Her imitating the sound of hair spray)

Me: Ok 

Mom: In High school I used to love guns and roses and I used to have a poster of Eddy Van Halen naked with just chaps on his legs and his butt showing...this was when I was in high school so y'know. 

    Me: ....ok, moving on so how did your musical style move on as you got older...

Mom: Ok, As I got older it went from Van Halen, Mötley Crüe, Guns and roses yknow I love all of them to Nirvana and all these boy toy bands in the 90s like the back street boys and boys to men and Im like what happened to my 80s music with the big hair. 

Me: Ok really cool. How about music from your young adulthood?

Mom: I really liked Alan Jackson and George strait and I love Christmas music a ton now and love hearing my son play his horn. 

Me: You like to listen to christmas music year round? Like in june?

Mom: YES, It makes me happy and also I love to listen to marching band music. The last 13 years has been marching band music and Its all different kinds of genres and songs but your music is my favorite <3. 

Me:Do you have a favorite musical artist now?

Mom: well no, not really...Oh actually Ethan Watkins. Hes really good and works hard. I LOVE hearing you toot your horn. 

Me: What type of music do you listen to when your in a certain mood. For example happy.

Mom: I listen to Christmas music! well I dont listen to a lot of music because my office at the hospital is right outside of the speakers which usually plays like easy listening music and I hear that all day. I usually listen to his radio which is christian music. 

Me: well I think that about wraps everything up for today thank you so much for this and I cant wait to show you my final result. 

Mom: awwww, thanks sweety, I love you.



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