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My bloggy friend Sara tagged me as a Versatile Blogger about a month ago, and I’ve meant to post on it ever since, but have been stumped by the requirement: listing “seven facts about me that you are unlikely to learn elsewhere.” I’ve been blogging for over seven years, so the list of things I haven’t blogged, but am willing to blog, is rather short. But then again, who knows how many of you have been reading all of those seven years, so really, I decided to get over it and just make a list, focused around music in my life.
- The first cassette tapes I remember owning were George Michael’s Faith and Madonna’s True Blue. I believe that tells you all you need to know about which generation I belong to, both by the artists mentioned and the words “cassette tapes.”
- I will further incriminate myself by saying my eighth grade boyfriend bought me a tape for Christmas, and it was Naughty by Nature’s self-titled 1991 masterwork, featuring “O.P.P,” a song to which I used to know all the lyrics and probably can sing embarrassing portions of even today. It was my favorite tape for months, second only to Boyz II Men’s “Motownphilly.”
- I have a Mariah Carey station on Pandora, and I’m not ashamed. I also have a Britney Spears one, which I love as well.
- For our wedding, my husband and I made mix CDs and gave them out as favors. I’m still pretty proud of our tracklisting, and I still play the CD regularly, though I’m not sure how many of our wedding guests would say the same. Songs included the Indigo Girls, “Power of Two,” Van Morrison’s “Into the Mystic,” Al Green, “Let’s Stay Together,” and the Cure, “The Lovecats.”
- If forced to choose, I would choose the Beatles over the Rolling Stones, which my mother believes is one of the classic musical divides of our age. She’s a Stones fan, so we never speak of this.
- If forced to choose again, I would choose Led Zeppelin over the Rolling Stones. While the Stones have many amazing songs, from “Sympathy for the Devil” to “Wild Horses,” there’s something so epic, legendary, decadent and just plain rockstar about Zeppelin. Not to mention I know their albums by heart (III is my favorite), have read extensively about their lives, and went through several obsessive phases dedicated entirely to them. Plus, Robert Plant is hotter than Mick Jagger.
- I wrote a paper in graduate school on Eminem’s deployment of class and race imagery, which was accepted for presentation at the next meeting of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music. Chuck D was the keynote speaker, it was supposed to be my first conference presentation, and I was thrilled–until it was canceled, as it was scheduled for the weekend after September 11th, 2001.
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