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the bad girl songs

i got quite the chuckle while reading some comments on blogs this morning. there is quite a following of idol and i enjoyed following the comments. one struck me funny. it was by my cousin and said that she liked carrie and might have to become a country fan. her friend commented she loved the song but sent her daughter out of her room b/c while she likes some of those "bad girl" songs she doesn't want her daughter to, yet. he he!!!

so why is it we like these bad girl songs? i know my cousin is far from a bad girl. and i assume her friend is too. and of course i'm far from a bad girl as well, but i concede that is one of the draws to country music for me as well. now, i only like the bad girl country songs, not the pop ones, because frankly they seem a little less blunt in the lyrics. i call them sassy songs. and from time to time i get sassy and sing them at the top of my lungs. hubby will sometimes start the car and then give me an odd look when the radio is blaring.

okay, i digress...why is it we like these? i don't know that for sure. is it the need to pretend like we lived a rebellious bad time in our life? maybe, but i don't really have that secret desire. i like that i was a good girl - but i admit to being a little sassy in school, maybe?? (i hear my dad reads this and he probably knows more than i think, but you never know!) my final conclusion as to why i like them is simple - it is something that is different than what i know. plus, my secret passion has always been to be a singer and we all know those songs are so much fun to sing with your hairbrush in hand in front of your bedroom mirror. confess, ladies, we have all done it and some still do today.

if you drive by my house you occassionaly will see me dancing crazily in the bathroom to some kind of country music that has some sassy lyrics. if it isn't too sassy the kids join me and we have a ball.

does all of this make me bad?!!!!?!?!?!?!?

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The Gang's Momma! said…
oh snap! You caught me! Yes, I love bad girl music. I like bad boys. I love David Cook.

I think the sassy, "rebel without a cause" side of me needs that outlet sometimes. A friend recently told me that she loves my little celebrity crushes and secret confessions. Why? Because I take most other areas of my life so seriously (oh, no, that's a post for another day right there!) that to see me get silly, crazy, or rocker-chick rebellious over something like country music or David Cassidy (ha ha!) or David Cook is fun for her.

It's fun for me too. Right now? I've got Keith Urban cranked on my iPod - steel guitar screaming away in the background. Mmmmm, love me some Keith on a Friday afternoon!

Come on Nat! 'Fess up - why do YOU love bad girl music?!
May 23, 2008 at 1:11 PM
Natalie said…
Hmmm, why do I like bad girl/boy music? You know, sometimes it gets old and boring and predictable being a good girl. And since I really don't have the nerve to be a true bad girl, I have to live it through music.
May 23, 2008 at 9:11 PM
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