Cornelia, you might only be five years and ten months old, but your maraca-enhanced drumming style will be your ticket to stardom.
On another note, who lets their kids listen to Rammstein (says the guy whose ten year old went around saying “that shit cray” a few weeks ago, inspired by a Kanye West/Jay Z track)?
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This article appears in Apr 12-18, 2012.
Initially, I attributed the five year old playing the drums with marimbas instead of drumsticks as an accommodation to the usually clumsy, short fingers of most children her age, but that theory was immediately shot down when she started playing the harp, which requires a rather refined touch. The bilingual guitarist (singing in both German and English) was also pretty darn impressive in addition to every other element included in this performance.
I also got a real ‘kick’ out of watching the deadpan look on the keyboard player’s face while she performed. She showed less expression than the fashion models pretending to play instruments in Robert Palmer’s music video for ‘Addicted To Love’.
This was a fascinating ‘kick-off’ to my week – the very concept of kids preferring Rammstein over Justin Bieber-type music simply amused the hell out of me.
Trilingual guitarist, Joan. He starts in German, switches to English, then switches to Romanian before finishing in German. And people whose kids barely speak *one* language, and badly at that, are going to criticize these parents for letting their children listen to Rammstein? ROFL!
John,
I forgot about the Romanian! You’re right about the potential ignorance factor of certain critical people – while I was raising them and still had a ‘say’, I exposed my children to every kind of music, art and literature imaginable. I never censored a single thing, although I did have to initiate a conversation regarding drug addiction and celebrities, when my two sons saw Ozzy Osbourne bite the head off a bat at a concert. Seriously.
Chamonix