{"id":10035,"date":"2015-05-06T08:41:43","date_gmt":"2015-05-06T12:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/?p=10035"},"modified":"2015-05-06T08:41:43","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T12:41:43","slug":"kids-keep-you-young","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2015\/05\/06\/kids-keep-you-young\/","title":{"rendered":"Kids Keep You Young"},"content":{"rendered":"

A week or so ago, this statistical analysis of listening trends in pop music<\/a> got a bunch of play on Twitter and Facebook, but I was too busy to do anything with it. The headline result, reported with all the accuracy you should expect of such things is people stop listening to popular music at 33<\/a>. <\/p>\n

By coincidence, in another part of the social-media universe, some friends were sneering at Top 40 music by way of highlighting a list of the current Top 40 chart to show how little of it they knew. As I’m currently marking time until I can call my doctor to get some help with what I suspect is a sinus infection, I thought I’d repeat that exercise here. Italic means I know the song, bold means we own it:<\/p>\n

Ellie Goulding \u2013 Love Me Like You Do<\/em><\/strong>
\nMaroon 5 — Sugar<\/strong><\/em>
\nTaylor Swift — Style<\/em><\/strong>
\nNatalie La Rose \u2013 Somebody feat. Jeremih
\nThe Weekend \u2013 Earned It
\nMark Ronson — Uptown Funk feat Bruno Mars<\/strong><\/em>
\nAriana Grande — One Last Time
\nEd Sheeran — Thinking Out Loud<\/em><\/strong>
\nJason Derulo \u2013 Want to Want Me
\nFlo Rida — G.D.F.R feat Sage the Gemini
\nZedd \u2013 I want You to Know feat. Selena Gomez
\nNick Jonas — Chains<\/em>
\nPitbull — Time of Our Lives feat Ne-Yo<\/em>
\nWalk The Moon \u2013 Shut up and Dance<\/em><\/strong>
\nRihanna — FourFiveSeconds feat Kanye West<\/strong><\/em>
\nToveLo \u2013 Talking Body <\/em>
\nTori Kelly \u2013 Nobody Love
\nCalvin Harris — Outside feat Ellie Goulding
\nSam Smith — Lay me Down
\nTaylor Swift — Blank Space<\/em><\/strong>
\nVance Joy \u2013 Riptide<\/em>
\nMeghan Trainor — Dear Future Husband<\/em>
\nOne Direction — Night Changes<\/em>
\nDavid Guetta — Hey Mama feat Nicki Minaj and Afrojack<\/em>
\nDJ Snake \u2013 You Know you Like it feat AlunaGeorge
\nHozier — Take me to Church<\/em><\/strong>
\nEchosmith \u2013 Bright
\nFifth Harmony \u2013 Worth It feat Kid Ink
\nLunchmoney Lewis \u2013 Bills
\nWiz Kalifa — See You Again feat Charlie Puth
\nMeghan Trainor — Lips Are Movin\u2019<\/strong><\/em>
\nChris Brown — Ayo feat Tyga
\nGeorge Ezra \u2013 Budapest<\/em>
\nNick Jonas — Jealous
\nSheppard \u2013 Geronimo<\/em><\/strong>
\nRyn Weaver \u2013 Octahate
\nSam Smith — I\u2019m Not The Only One<\/em>
\nNate Ruess \u2013 Nothing Without Love
\nIggy Azalea — Trouble feat Jennifer Hudson
\nAndy Grammer \u2013 Honey, I\u2019m Good.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

So, I come up just short of knowing half of the Top 40 at the moment, which is pretty good for an old dude a decade past when you’re supposed to stop listening to new music.<\/p>\n

Why is that? One word: SteelyKid. As previously noted, she’s taking an interest in pop music now, and when I drive her back and forth to taekwondo, we listen to the Top 40 station. The songs I know are ones she likes; the ones we own are for the most part songs she’s specifically requested that I buy and put on her tablet.<\/p>\n

(A subset of her requests, actually, as she’s asked for a couple of Pitbull songs that I refuse to buy because I find them a little too date-rapey for my six-year-old, and she’s repeatedly demanded a Matt and Kim song that I would rather set fire to the car stereo than listen to ever again. There are also a few of these that she’s asked for but I haven’t gotten around to buying yet.)<\/p>\n

This is the spot where I’m supposed to make some reference to what torture it is to have to listen to this stuff, and I will sometimes do that jokingly. But this is the Internet, and there’s no joke that somebody won’t take seriously and then overanalyze to prove that you’re a Bad Person, so at the cost of any tiny shred of street cred I might otherwise have had, I’ll say honestly that with a few rare exceptions, I really don’t mind. I actually enjoy a bunch of these, and not in a Stockholm Syndrome kind of way, either.<\/p>\n

In the end, my relationship with my kid is a whole lot more important to me than any pop-culture credibility I might have. So, you know, I’ll roll my eyes a little at the thousandth sing-along with “Shut Up and Dance,” and I’ll do what I can to push her toward other higher-quality music (I’ve added some songs from my iTunes library to her playlists as well). But I like knowing what she’s into, and encouraging her to like music, so I’m happy to change my radio presets and will gladly sacrifice the purity of my Amazon recommendations for the sake of the huge grin she gets when a song she knows comes on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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