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Wednesday, June 29, 2011

My First Kiss

I know I’m seriously behind on the times especially when it comes to music. When I was younger, I always knew the newest best songs on the radio but in the past few years I’m lucky to know any songs that aren’t sang by The Fresh Beat Band or the Backyardigans. A few months ago, I turned the television to CMT and fell in love with Kelly Clarkson after hearing her sing Don’t You Wanna Stay with Jason Aldean. I’ve watched the video over and over and finally for the first time heard it on the radio today. I had a three hour window in my car by myself….it was heaven! I’ve listened to the song numerous times and have finally come to the conclusion it’s a song written about a first date or either a rekindled love. It really doesn’t matter, the song is awesome. It makes me think about my first kiss. Oh, how long ago that was!

My first kiss happened when I was in the seventh grade. It was nothing like I imagined nor what I expected. I’m not sure what I expected but certainly not what happened. It was one of those awkward moments when you’re not sure where to place your hand or which direction you should tilt your head. All I can say is that it went wrong, terribly wrong. During the middle of this “passionate” middle school smooch, the guys tongue went straight up my nose when I adjusted my head. Sadly, I was too grossed out that he had tried to suck my lips off of my face to even think badly of him cleaning my boogers from my nose.

That happened on a Friday. By that next Monday, everyone at school heard what happened and I broke up with him. It was just too humiliating to walk around with him knowing more about the texture of my snot than I did. Summer break was a week later. And now almost 20 years later, I’m finally talking about it. I need a therapist.

Monday, June 13, 2011

Dirt Road Anthem

Last Wednesday night I watch the CMT Awards and was sooooo happy to see Colt Ford doing a little bit of entertaining even though he was cut to a commercial. I was even happier at the end of the show when Jason Aldean performed his cover of "Dirt Road Anthem" along with Ludacris. "Dirt Road Anthem" was written by Colt Ford and Brantley Gilbert. The song is about the good ole days and was written about the small community where I was raised. Potts Farm is about 1/4 mile down the road from my parents.

I've been reading blogs and comment posts about the performance with Ludacris and so many people have been really negative about the entire thing from Jason Aldean doing the cover to having a rapper included in the song. There wasn't anything wrong with the song or the performance. I guess my irritation with the complaints is the fact that the complainers don't realize how much the human products of the 70's and 80's (and the 90's but they aren't my generation) around here don't care if you're black, white or purple. We grew up liking everyone and listening to all kinds of music. One minute we were listening to The Judds on Y106.7, then we changed the station to V103 to listen to Luther Vandross, and we finish up with Weezer on Bulldog 103.7.

It's just nice to be able to listen to Brantley's and Colt's song and be able to think back to the good times when we didn't have any worries. It lets us remember where we came from.