For this blog I interviewed my mom, Jennifer.
Me: Who was your favorite band when you were younger?
Mom: Band would be Chicago.
Me: Do you have a specific song?
Mom: No, not really.
Me: Do you have a specific album? You just like the group?
Mom: No and yeah I just like the group.
Me: Has your music taste changed from when you were younger?
Mom: Yes.... well no
Me: Why do you say no?
Mom: Well not that it's changed, if I listened to the music that I listened to when I was younger. I still like 80's music pop. It's the best, but it's not like I listen to that all the time.
Me: Did you ever take music classes or any type of music lessons?
Mom: No
Me: Did you want to?
Mom: Yes
Me: What instrument did you want to play?
Mom: I wanted to play the flute when I was in junior high, but when my mama married Scott (her stepdad), we moved from Pacolet to Union and I missed that year of beginner band. So I wasn't able to make that up. So I wasn't able to take band like I wanted to.
Me: What was your earliest experience with music?
Mom: I remember when I was little my grandmother use to listen to Elvis a lot and we would go to my aunt Evelyn's house, which is my grandmother's sister, and she would listen to George Jones and country music. She was all about country music. I remember listening to country music at her house and then Elvis was my grandmother's favorite.
Me: What music from your youth do you think was overrated?
Mom: RAP. I hate rap music. It still is overrated.
Me: Like 80's 90's rap?
Mom: Like all of it. It's different from what it use to be back then.
Me: What's your favorite and least favorite genre and why?
Mom: Favorite, 80's pop. least favorite is rap. all rap.
Me: Why is 80's pop your favorite?
Mom: That's what I grew up listening to. I can hear a song in a story and it brings back an instant memory of something that happened when I was a teenager. That why I still like it because it makes me think of my childhood and teenage years.
Me: Did your music selections that you use to listen to changed how you viewed things in society?
Mom: I don't think so.
Me: What music do you dislike today other than rap?
Mom: ................ I don't know. None that I know of other than rap.
Me: What about rock or heavy metal?
Mom: Well I never listened to heavy metal or head banging music. Some hard rock bands had some good songs in the 80's that I listened to, but it wasn't like I listened to them.
Me: Have you ever gone to a big music concert growing up?
Mom: The only concert that I went to that I can remember, I went to a Donny and Marie concert when I was little.
Me: What year was that?
Mom: Oh Lord, I don't remember. Maybe late 70's.
Me: So you were little little?
Mom: Yeah, I was probably 8 or 9. I don't know I can't really remember. I just remember going and there was a lot of people there.
Me: What kind of tech did you use to listen to music at various points in your life?
Mom: We had a record player, we had a boombox, we had cassette tapes, and walkmans. Nanny had a turntable (her mom) that had a cassette tape player on the front of it. Mostly a boombox and a walkman.
Me: Did you ever get into CD's?
Mom: No, that was more of the 90's.
Me: Would you like to learn a new instrument, if so then why?
Mom: I would like to learn the piano. It's been something I've always wanted to do and I just haven't never done that.
Me: You wanted to play the flute in middle school, would you want to learn how to play the flute?
Mom: Umm, I think if I could play a band instrument. I would want to play the clarinet, but if I had a choice of an instrument it would be a piano.
I thanked her for her time and we ended the interview.
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