When I was in fourth grade, we got MTV. Paradise City by Guns N'Roses was really popular at the time, and you used to love singing and dancing along to the music video, which played endlessly.
Take me down to the paradise city where the grass is green and the girls are pretty...
You would get the words to the chorus right, but never knew any of the other words and would just sing along enthusiastic gibberish while dancing like crazy. You loved Axl Rose's head slamming. I think part of you was making fun of us for liking this music, but the larger part of you really loved it.
You also got (or rather tried to get) really into rap for a while. You never knew what any of the words to rap songs were, so you'd just sing along 100% gibberish while dancing or bopping your head along. Rap presented a problem, though, because you weren't into the vulgarity and misogyny of most mainstream rap, so eventually you gave up on it. At one point I tried to get you to listen to some less offensive hip hop, but Tribe Called Quest and Mos Def didn't do it for you.
I'm pretty sure you never got over Paradise City and the head slamming, though.
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Take me down to the paradise city where the grass is green and the girls are pretty...
You would get the words to the chorus right, but never knew any of the other words and would just sing along enthusiastic gibberish while dancing like crazy. You loved Axl Rose's head slamming. I think part of you was making fun of us for liking this music, but the larger part of you really loved it.
You also got (or rather tried to get) really into rap for a while. You never knew what any of the words to rap songs were, so you'd just sing along 100% gibberish while dancing or bopping your head along. Rap presented a problem, though, because you weren't into the vulgarity and misogyny of most mainstream rap, so eventually you gave up on it. At one point I tried to get you to listen to some less offensive hip hop, but Tribe Called Quest and Mos Def didn't do it for you.
I'm pretty sure you never got over Paradise City and the head slamming, though.
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