iPods, Music, and Me

I would probably die without my iPod. I love it so much. It's pink. Now don't take this the wrong way. I am NOT one of those girly-girls. But I do like this color. It's really pretty. But you will catch me wearing black just as much as I wear pink.

Anyway, the reason I love my iPod is not because it's pink. No, I love music. I grew up listening to music. Some history of me and music:

My mom is the choir director and organist at my church. And no offense, but the choir at my church is really something to brag about. We ROCK. Seriously, our children's choir starts at second grade, and they all sing Mozart and Rutter and Requiems and such. It's truly a sight to behold. So I grew up at choir rehearsals. My mom is also the director in a choral society called Harmonium. They rock too. They have rehearsals every Sunday night. So from ages about 2-7 I was there for several hours a week. Oh, and concerts 3-5 times a year. No wonder I'm so music oriented. I have a really early memory with that. Harmonium has certain songs they sing a lot. One of them is an arrangement of "Sidewalks of New York". So one day, after listening to them sing this a lot in rehearsals, I started singing it, that particular arrangement. Even the harmonies and descants. I was five and harmonizing to myself! My mom heard me and was pretty shocked. She told my dad, who denied it, saying I couldn't learn it just from listening. But I had, and I am definitely part audio learner.

Anyway, all this music I grew up with was choral music, so I wasn't really ever exposed to the popular music at the time. The closest I came to that was KidzBop, which everyone knows stinks. No one wants to hear kids sing popular songs, they want to hear the artist sing popular songs. If you like KidzBop, I'm sorry, but look up some of the songs on your CDs on the internet. Sung by the REAL artist. You'll enjoy yourself much more. Unless it's Justin Bieber, and then there's no difference between him and a ten-year-old girl. Okay, back to the subject. And we didn't have cable, so no Disney channel or Nickelodeon for me to even know. But in fourth grade I got cable, and in sixth grade I started listening to Z100, the radio station with "all the hits" as they say. So now I'm basically caught up.

I got my iPod in the summer before seventh grade, when my sister's boyfriend got a new computer that came with a free iPod. He already had one, and knew how much I wanted one, so he gave me it. I am forever grateful, really.

Before I got my iPod, I had an iTunes gift card, which I used through my sisters account. So I had about ten songs before I even had my iPod. But she left (to grad school) before my iPod arrived, so I never got to put them on. For my first few months I just listened to the radio (which actually opened me up to a lot of new songs and helped me develop a tolerance to rap). It was okay though, because my iPod can pause and rewind and fast forward the radio, which is uber-cool. When we finally went to visit my sister, she put those on, plus her Lady Gaga and Taylor Swift songs so I had a total of 99 songs.

Then she came to visit us, and put more songs I wanted on it (I had another gift card). She also put a bunch of her songs that she chose. She had to load each album individually, so I went outside to play. She could put anything she wanted on my iPod. Stuff she said was "good for me" to listen to. Resulting, I have everything from Pink and Green Day to Kelly Clarkson and Demi Lovato to the Beatles and my church choir. 591 songs. I still want MORE!

Also, some great artists on my iPod, no one's ever heard. Like Daniel Bedingfeild. My sister says he was a singer when she was like a sophomore or junior in high school, a few years ago. She says he only had one really famous song, but he's really good.

And Mika. Oh, Mika. He is great. He's British, so that might be why no one knows him here. But he has brought such songs as Lollipop ("Sucking too hard on your lollipop, oh, love's gonna get you down"), Grace Kelly ("I can be brown, I can be blue, I can be violet sky"), and Love Today ("Anyway you want to, anyway you've got to, Love love me, Love love me"). His songs are just ridiculous and amazing. One of his songs was the theme song for a movie, Kick-"Butt". It wasn't actually called Kick-Butt, but my parents read this blog.

Here are Mika's two album covers, for his albums Life in Cartoon Motion and The Boy Who Knew Too Much:

Okay. So I love music. YAAAY! Here's a funny picture!

Teehee! Byebye music lovers!