Ros and Robbie

[przed]

Ros will frequently get on a kick where she wants to hear the same song constantly so she can learn the lyrics. Fortunately, she has so far always done this with songs I like. (Mancunian Way, Wooden Boat.) Her fave of the moment is Robbie Williams' Let Me Entertain You.

Leaving aside the wisdom of letting an eight-year-old listen to a song with the line "shake your ass, come over here," (hey, at least there's no f-bomb in this one) it's led to the occasional interesting question.

Ros: Why does he say "Little Bo Peep has lost his sheep?
Me: Because Robbie likes to play with gender....Do you know what gender is?
Ros: Yeah.

Half an hour later.

Ros: Why does Robbie like to play with gender?
Me: That's a good question. ::launches into a discourse on the frequency of cross-dressing in English culture::

Comments

[moonlightmead.livejournal.com]

Do you have pantomime over there? In the style that we do? With principal boys and principal girls, and the dame, and cross-dressing everywhere? Like this (http://moonlightmead.livejournal.com/2014/01/04/)?

(I think in the states they think that 'pantomime' is a mime thing, but it isn't here, and I certainly don't know what it is in Canada.)

If ever you are over here in December or January, get thee - well, no, get you all - to a pantomime.

[przed.livejournal.com]

Not only do we have panto here, but we've gone to it the last couple of years! I should totally have brought that up in the gender fluidity explanation! I'll be better armed the next time she brings it up.

We're just trying to decide whether to do the panto again this year. Ros always enjoys it, but this year another theatre is doing an figure skating musical, and given Ros' current figure skating obsession that might be more up her street.