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Music was sooo important when I was 13 years old. I woke up to the clock radio, left it on till I left for school, insisted I had to have it on when I did my homework, and fell asleep with the nifty ’sleep’ feature. At that age, I was a music snob, and would not have dared to listen to country music, classic rock, heavy metal or anything viewed as ‘too popular’ at the time.

As I grew older, my restrictions relaxed, and I really enjoy a wide variety of music that people might not expect. I like world music, and love to watch the music videos on Link Tv. I like some jazz, and blues. I like electronic dance music. My latest hurdle has been Christian music.

For a long time, the only type of Christian music I knew of was gospel. At 13, I was So not going to listen to that. At 20, that would have been gross. Now? Gospel is still gross.

It’s just a style I can’t enjoy really. And I even like Opera! So anyway, the last five years or so, Christian music has started to expand it’s genre’s. Now you can find ‘country’ xian, rap xian, brit pop xian, grundge xian, and heavy metal xian. It’s weird. The market one day decided, hey, we need to keep the message, and change the music. Why they didn’t think of it sooner, I don’t know.

I still haven’t gotten to the point where I can turn on a xian radio station and just leave it there. I’d rather listen to the cds I have. I know those songs already. I know those musicians. That’s my problem as I get older. I’m more open to different types of music, but close minded about how I learn of new ones. Weird, huh?

See, I drive maybe 2 days a week for an hour or more each time. That’s the only time I ever turn on the radio anymore. I don’t watch videos on Mtv or Vh1, or BET, because I have little kids, and who knows what they’ll see shaking. I could leave the radio on all the time, but some songs, I just don’t want my kids singing. “Baby, hit me one more time”? So it’s back to the cd’s.

Maybe it’s not that I’m close minded about what stations I listen to, or what channels I watch, maybe it’s just that I’m paranoid that my kids will learn about relationships, or sex, or violence, or drugs before I can teach them that what most of the lyrics say about those things are all wrong or too true but so ugly. Hmmm…

So then just turn on the xian station and let it be? Sure it’s safe, but then would my kids ever really like music?