Musical Youth

Nope, not the popular 80s reggae combo, but a brief comment on the catholic, nay eccentric, musical taste which our four year old daughter is developing. She's always enjoyed music and dancing (she now takes ballet, tap and disco classes, very cute and, even better, surprisingly inexpensive, so far at any rate) but she's really developing an interest in a very broad repertoire of songs.

She likes her own music (mostly classic Disney songs, and a Charlie and Lola CD which she got for Christmas), but is also still young enough to like ours as well. This means that she's currently pinching my iPod to listen to Mauvais Sort, a Quebecois folk band which I saw at a folk festival in Nova Scotia last summer, and sometimes Lily Allen, but this worries me since the language isn't great so I tend to confine that to the car so I can skip over the inappropriate tracks!

She's also enjoying dancing with her Daddy to his vinyl collection, which includes The Quireboys, The Cult (her favourite song is Little Devil!), and the Grease soundtrack. I'm sure he'll be working his way through the rest of the collection over the next few years - at least until she starts to realise that by definition, as her parents, we are terminally uncool and should be avoided at all costs.