Be wary of your kids' playlists

I confess: I recently went through his playlists and swiped a whole bunch of songs off Squidboy's old computer.  I really can't bring myself to feel any remorse for doing so because, well, most of them were downloaded and paid for by *my* account anyway.  

At any rate, I now have some good country music to add to my collection, and that's really nice.  Most of what I've bought over the years has been rock and Celtic folk, with excursions into reggae, Hawai'ian, Native American drums . . . and a few sub-sub-genres I'm almost embarrassed to admit I like.  But Youngest Son managed to corrupt me and hook me on modern country before he left for the Navy.  His father is unamused by this, especially when it comes to occasionally being forced to listen to the stuff when we're in my vehicle.  Athos is more into Celtic folk, jazz, classical and orchestral-soundtrack stuff, and has never exactly been a fan of country music, either modern or more traditional....

I grew up with my dad and his parents listening to twangy C&W and older Grand Ole Opry music, most of which made my ears want to implode.  (And then there's the conservative talk radio Mr. Dittohead apparently has playing all night long.  I have no idea how my mother's kept from divorcing him all these years!)  Still can't stand "twangy" as a general rule, although I did learn to tolerate (if not necessarily appreciate) some of it, thanks to an old boyfriend who was a country kind of guy.  (Dirt track racing and honky tonkin' - those were good times!  But that's old history, and I wouldn't trade Athos in for him.)

So what does this have to do with anything?  Just a little rambling until I circled back around to where I intended to end up.  I had a philosophy instructor back in college who did that a lot.  He'd start at 'A' and take side trips through topics 'C', 'G', 'E', 'M', etc. until he made finally it back to 'B' and his point.  Come to think of it, I had two philosophy professors who did that, and both were theologians.  Which makes me wonder if it's something in the training that makes them that way, or if they went into philosophy/theology because that type of thinking is natural to them.  (Engineers, OTOH, seem to be more linear problem solvers than mind-mappers.)

And yes, I'm probably undiagnosed ADD.  It shows.

So....  I dropped Squidboy's music to my computer.  Some of it I dumped, some of it I'm hanging onto for occasional listening, and some of it (like the country) went straight onto my iPod.  I was listening to it yesterday while doing the dishes and this song started that I'd never heard before.  My initial impression was meh and I almost skipped it.  I'm glad I didn't.  But I really do wish Squidboy had warned me about it before I'd listened to it, which finally explains the post header.

The song is Alyssa Lies, by Jason Michael Carroll.  You can find the lyrics here, and a video is here.  Parents, make sure the kleenex box is handy before you check it out.....