Soundtrack of my Life...

Hey Y'all!

I was asked by a friend to make a post about what kind of music I grew up with. So I'm going to post it to the best of my knowledge.

Now this may come as a shock to some people, but I wasn't always a wild eyed, twitter-hearted fan of Michael Jackson. There was actually a time before I even knew who he was.

I was brought up in church so I primarily heard gospel music all through my childhood and sang in the choir from the time I  was maybe 5 until I was about 20.
My father is also a huge fan of BB King and blues so there was alot of it playing in the background. I don't really like blues.

In the nine years before I discovered MJ, I was trying my best to fit in with the other children and listen to what they listened to. Beleive it or not I used to listen to rap. Of course that was before every line of it was filled with calling women all kinds of evil names.
I was in love with MC Hammer until he went bankrupt and enjoyed Will Smith and LLCoolJ and Coolio--Coolio was like the man when I was in grade school and everyone was singing "Gangsta's Paradise".
I think the reason why my tastes in music are so vastly different from others in my peer group is because, as an only child, I spent a great deal of time alone and outside of school, I really had no social contact with other people my age.
So basically I was rudderless and had no other child saying oh, "so and so is the hot thing, get this CD"
I was just the odd duck in a flock of pigs, it's not even a comparison, I was just out there.
I watched MTV alot and around my mid-teens, aside from Michael Jackson, I was into rock. and like that was my "rebellious" streak. I wore black clothing and black make up and wanted to be in a moshpit at a Limp Biscuit show.
Thank God I grew out of that. But I listened to alot of pop, Britney, Christina, Nsync, Backstreet Boys Kelly Clarkson,...That's what I played.
Overlapping with this was my love of 80s music.

The way I got into 80s music was kind of as a mistake. in 1999, BET was running old videos and I was losing my mind watching Michael and Prince and Debarge and Evelyn Champange King and the Mary Jane Girls and all these really great people and at 13 my thought pattern was: 
WHY THE HELL ISN'T MUSIC THIS COOL ANYMORE?
And thus began the Exodus. 
I started just finding best of compilations by other artists and picking out songs and soundtracks and music from the 80s I like. 
(I do like doo-wop from the 50/60s and disco--I'm an old soul in a younger bondy) 
And that's just what I like to listen to.

I just don't like newer acts and they don't excite me the way MJ or Prince do.
Like Michael's been in Heaven for two years and if I find a new picture or a new performancce I'm so excited and sharing it with my friends who in turn get excited too.
And with the new kids, I could care less. LOL.

That's my music history in a nutshell.