Day 345

We listen to The Disney Channel on our car radio.  Which SOUNDS like it should be playing It’s A Small World and The Lion King Theme Song.

But, it doesn’t.

Instead it plays the Disney ingenue of the moment singing her “hit song” that is most typically the theme music to her sitcom on the Disney television channel (many cross marketing opportunities here).   There are also several obligatory boy bands and teen heartthrobs with their own catchy ditties thrown in for good measure.

My kids can sing many of the tunes by heart.

I suppose there is some point when every kid eventually starts singing pop songs into a hairbrush. I just hadn’t expected it to come this early.

The other day I was listening to them belting out these lyrics:.

 So, I said, “What did you say?”   I mean given that the Disney channel launched the careers of famous drunks like Lindsey Lohan, Brittany Spears and Miley Cyrus it didn’t seem like that far of a stretch.

But, I had misheard.  Apparently, when the kids sung it back slowly the words were.

 Oh, yeah that’s much better for my first and fourth grader to be singing.  But whatever, at least for now, I’m pretty sure they don’t quite understand the lyrics.

This band that is advocating “getting some while they’re young” is called One Direction and consists of five young men with skinny jeans and shaggy hair. It is the classic teen heartthrob look that has been handed down through the ages. It is always paired with weird pouty looks and creepy synchronized choreography.

At some point, my kids figured out that One Direction was coming in concert this summer and pleaded to go.

Now, I can remember really wanting to go to a Rod Stewart concert (did I mention I was a weird kid?) and my mom telling me no.  Clearly I was disappointed enough to still remember it, so I figured I would at least check it out.

Yes, apparently the One Direction band sold out like they were the Rolling Stones in about 30 minutes when they went on sale in December.   I told my kids the bad news.

Then, because she didn’t believe me, my oldest did a quick internet search and was very pleased to show me that indeed, I was wrong and we could actually purchase USED tickets which were OK with her and perfectly acceptable under The Simple Year rules.

Which, I guess is technically accurate.

But given that USED tickets started at $195 each, they still aren’t going.