Crotchety Old Man Mode Activated!
Feb. 14th, 2012 07:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfs"That's Alizee!" (Wow, the boob fairy apparently visited Alizee' somewhere in the middle of her poptart career.) Storm came running into the kitchen and started eagerly listening to the mini stereo set, where J'en Ai Marre from her live album was playing as I cleaned up the wreckage of a well-made dinner.
"Yes, it is," I agreed.
"We listen to her in French class."
I sighed. Because I have been listening to, and playing, Alizee' for years. (Her first appearance in my LJ is January 6, 2009, three years ago.) But when her French teacher played it for her, it wasn't like, "Oh, yeah, my Dad listens to the French equivalent of Katy Perry all the time." It was something new to her, despite having heard it many times throughout the past three years. And then when she gets home, suddenly she makes the connection and says, "How do you know about Alizee?"
Omaha says that teenagers just don't pay attention to what their parents listen to, and that it's not personal when Storm has no idea what music I have in my collection, and never connects hearing what I play to what she experiences in the world outside our home.
But my worries about her go deep. I started learning French to keep up with her, and she continually brushed me off and said she didn't want to practice French. "I don't want to learn how to speak it," she said. "I just want to get an A in the class." (If she does, she'll have mastered the signaling mode of career advancement, which is a fine thing, I suppose.)
At 14, she has that air of teenagery "I know everything.". It's annoying as hell.
"Yes, it is," I agreed.
"We listen to her in French class."
I sighed. Because I have been listening to, and playing, Alizee' for years. (Her first appearance in my LJ is January 6, 2009, three years ago.) But when her French teacher played it for her, it wasn't like, "Oh, yeah, my Dad listens to the French equivalent of Katy Perry all the time." It was something new to her, despite having heard it many times throughout the past three years. And then when she gets home, suddenly she makes the connection and says, "How do you know about Alizee?"
Omaha says that teenagers just don't pay attention to what their parents listen to, and that it's not personal when Storm has no idea what music I have in my collection, and never connects hearing what I play to what she experiences in the world outside our home.
But my worries about her go deep. I started learning French to keep up with her, and she continually brushed me off and said she didn't want to practice French. "I don't want to learn how to speak it," she said. "I just want to get an A in the class." (If she does, she'll have mastered the signaling mode of career advancement, which is a fine thing, I suppose.)
At 14, she has that air of teenagery "I know everything.". It's annoying as hell.
