It was the summer before freshman year. I was taking a hip hop class at Expressions Studio that made me feel like a slightly cooler version of myself, despite the obvious truth that dancing hip hop made me look like a flailing wet noodle. (Seriously.) One of the songs that we danced to was "Put it Down" by Brandy. Partly out of necessity to practice and partly out of the need to show off my almost nonexistent knowledge of hip hop, I yanked out the dusty iTunes gift card I had gotten from one of my friends for my 13th birthday and bought the song on impulse.
It still sits on my barely-working iPod, and I still listen to it occasionally, especially if I stumble upon the video of me dancing to that song while flipping through home videos. I'm not particularly proud of my song choice, especially now that I have decent-ish (or decent-er) taste in music, anyways. It's catchy enough, I guess, but I doubt I should have wasted my 99 cents (or however much it was) on it considering all the other choices I had. Also, I mostly bought the song because everyone else in my dance class listened to that type of music; trying to fit in isn't really the best reason for doing anything, even if it's something as simple as buying music.
With incredibly deep and meaningful lyrics like "With all this money, and all your cake/Girl you better stop, I got a big ego" and "Even the way you flex/That's what turns me on," I doubt my parents would approve now, let alone when I was 13 year old. But I think parents in general tend to overreact about these types of things (to go off on a tangent). They expect that explicit lyrics will somehow rub off on us and make us inappropriate too, but I doubt that ever really happens.
It still sits on my barely-working iPod, and I still listen to it occasionally, especially if I stumble upon the video of me dancing to that song while flipping through home videos. I'm not particularly proud of my song choice, especially now that I have decent-ish (or decent-er) taste in music, anyways. It's catchy enough, I guess, but I doubt I should have wasted my 99 cents (or however much it was) on it considering all the other choices I had. Also, I mostly bought the song because everyone else in my dance class listened to that type of music; trying to fit in isn't really the best reason for doing anything, even if it's something as simple as buying music.
With incredibly deep and meaningful lyrics like "With all this money, and all your cake/Girl you better stop, I got a big ego" and "Even the way you flex/That's what turns me on," I doubt my parents would approve now, let alone when I was 13 year old. But I think parents in general tend to overreact about these types of things (to go off on a tangent). They expect that explicit lyrics will somehow rub off on us and make us inappropriate too, but I doubt that ever really happens.