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

[sarren.livejournal.com]

Bunny does that too, I like to introduce her to songs *I* like listening to lots too.

We now know all the words to Skullcrusher Mountain, for example. I may feel a tad guilty about that...

[soundofthesurf.livejournal.com]

I can't help it, but this makes me feel all warm inside. You and Ros are just simply made of all kinds of awesomeness. :)

[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.

[halotolerant.livejournal.com]

Heh! *g* That is a song full of vocabulary, for sure. I like to think of Ros learning the wonders of twisting expectations from Robbie songs. I was a bit older than her when I was listening to them as new stuff and thinking a lot, but I remember how radical he seemed at the time in amongst pop compilations which were otherwise all Spice Girls and Britney et al.