Hey Hey!

So at the aqua fitness classes, since I've been going solidly for a few months now, the "regulars" are pretty friendly and that's a nice surprise I wasn't expecting.  

I also really enjoy the (good) songs that some of the instructors use and so will happily sing along when I can (I'm not the only one!)

Before class last week, I was floating around and a Monkees song was playing and I was quietly singing along.  After a bit one of the ladies looked at me and said, in a friendly manner "Victoria, aren't you too young to know this song?"

I think I stammered in my response and said something about having older brothers but I also suppose it was a flattering sort of question but also I do like a lot of music that you might say is from a generation or two above mine and that's totally ok!

So we talked for a bit about the Monkees and Pink Floyd (she said how surprised she was when her son started listening to them and she said to him "but that's MY music!?") and I said that in high school I listened to the "golden oldies" station on the radio (I really did, I loved me that sweet stuff from the 50s and what have you!). And then class started and I sung along to the ones I knew and it was fun fun fun til her daddy takes the t-bird awayyyyy! (Whoops, sorry, got distracted there.)

But yeah, it's kind of a neat thing to share music with folks a good bit older than me.  Sometimes I think music can be a great uniter, you know?

But I also thought, after I got home that day, that I likely heard many of these songs on the radio growing up and that my parents would have chosen the station so it was more likely my parents rather than my brothers who guided my initial love of music from "before my time" you know?