RTP-area local music and culture

[Chris Rossi <nospam AT spacelabstudio.com>]

Chris Calloway wrote:
> Il Rossi:
> > The thing to keep in mind for your neice, though, is if she is like
> > most
> children she probably wants major label music which she isn't going
> to find on emusic.  Or I don't know.  Maybe she's way cooler at 9
> than anybody I knew back then.  Would she be into the Dischord
> catalog?
>
> this is my reason for asking. she's eleven now. she lives out in
> nowhere, nc where they only things she gets exposed to by chance are
> things that are probably going to cause permanent brain damage if it
> keeps up. her tastes land anywhere between toby keith, green day/good
> charlotte, and whatever is being pushed by the disney channel xm
> station. her cultural influences are already starting to inflict an
> if-i-have-to-think-about-it-then-it's-too-much-effort attitude where
> she used to be incredibly curious about things as recently as two
> years ago. maybe i'm making a big deal out of nothing. i suppose my
> parents felt the same way when all i wanted were beatles records. the
> toby keith thing really bothers me, though.
sometimes they grow out of that.  sometimes they don't.  an emusic 
subscription certainly couldn't hurt.  she might not use it.  but maybe 
she would.  she could turn into whatever the 2010s version of a punk 
rock chick is going to be.

i kind of wish i didn't know toby keith existed.

chris