Tonight I thought I would share some musical memories …
Growing up I was severely sheltered from the outside world… (that’s putting it conservatively) … I did not know there was other music besides what my parents or grandparents listened to. I had no exposure to outside my family or what I was allowed.
In 1983, I was in the 5th grade, one of my girlfriends got a stereo for Christmas and I went over her house to check it out…
She flipped it on and the first song I ever hear besides my parents music was this song…
That was the very first new song I ever heard!! 😮 and that just made me explode with music after that.
I said to her “Oh my god! What kind of music is that?!” And it was all over … I couldn’t get enough…
By 1985… I was a 7th grader in middle school… we would have PE… and then we would always finish WAY before the bell would ring for the next class – and back in the day everyone had a boom box lol (Oh my god!) so hilarious
So we would set up the boom box in the gym and all us girls would tag team each other and take turns dancing with each other to this song … while the boys just stood around watching …
It was amazing – both the music and the dancing!!! ❤️ was 80’s style sexy and robotic lol hilarious ❤️
I went to school in that moment in a racially divided area of the southeast… but after PE, in that gym before the bell rang – we all danced together – there was no race ❤️ just fun!! Unity through music 🎶
Sometimes in my life there have been moments that could have been on TV… one time when I was maybe 18? We went to a first night celebration for New Years … obviously I was underage, but we brought our own 🍾 champagne 🥂 and plastic glasses.
Our plan was to be downtown watching the fireworks happen at midnight and open that then … it didn’t really work out that way…
Instead we ran late and got stuck on the subway at the exact moment of midnight… so as midnight chimed … we passed out all the glasses on the subway and shared our 2 bottles of champagne with whoever was there on that subway with us at that moment.
And like a movie… everyone broke out into song and sang Auld Lang Syne ❤️ was pretty bad ass ❤️❤️❤️ I’ve never seen anything like it before or after… had an amazing New Years I will never forget with complete strangers ❤️
Moments of music – I will never forget ❤️ I love music 🎶 ❤️
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