Manga, Music and Me


I learned a few things about Kyle and Hayden this week. 
Unfortunately, for them, they also learned something about me this week.
I was introduced to manga and BTS. 
The kids were then introduced to the origins of my musical tastes that were formed during a cold and dark winter in Fairbanks, Alaska.  

Let's start with manga.
Manga are comics or graphic novels that originated in Japan.
And you read them from back to front and right to left. 
Kyle's current favorite is Fullmetal Alchemist.
I was never big into comics or graphic novels but I did read one of my favorite magazines (Entertainment Weekly) back in the day when people read magazines from back to front. 
I have no idea why but it made sense to my brain. 


Now onto BTS
Are you familiar with these guys? 
They are a South Korean boy band and I hear these lyrics several times a day from Hayden: 

Smooth like butter, like a criminal undercover
Gon' pop like trouble breaking into your heart like that (ooh)
Cool shade, stunner, yeah, I owe it all to my mother
Hot like summer, yeah, I'm making you sweat like that (break it down)

It's a catchy song called "Butter" and I've caught myself on more than a few times humming it to myself. Sweet Lincoln's mullet! 
But it's not too surprising as my go-to karaoke jam is "I Want it That Way" by the Backstreet Boys. 

Finally, the beginning of my craptastic taste in music. 
I was watching some music videos on YouTube and Kyle mentioned that the music was depressing. 
He was not wrong as the video (Chris Stapleton "Fire Away") was about a woman who committed suicide.
So I thought I would liven things up and show him the music I started to get into when I was his age and he got met these guys: Ratt and their first music video, "Round and Round." 
I was into hair metal and hard rock for the next few years reading Hit Parader magazine religiously until the grunge scene hit and Nirvana rocked my world in a whole different way. 

I don't know what it all means but it does seem that my two little apples don't far too much from the tree. 

Meme dump







I will persevere. 
I will keep moving forward. 
I will be the stream.

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  1. "I Want it That Way" good song. Good harmony.

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  2. Yes, I know about BTS, but they’re no BSB, and that’s not BS!

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    1. I like what you did there, Bijoux.

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  3. I just had a niece ask me if I had ever heard of The Eagles. I said I had. Then she asked if I ever heard of Melissa Etheridge. I said yes, where are you getting this? She said her friends mom let them listen to the stacks of her and her grandma's vinyl and it's wild. But we are really liking some of the music. Her mom told her that they all played instruments too. That was more important than dancing she said. Isn't that funny Aunt Peg? Oh my God that made me laugh. Out of the mouths of babe.

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    1. Made me laugh too. Thanks for sharing, Peg.

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  4. Music does remind us of certain periods of our lives, both good and bad. My grandson likes to dance to funk which holds many memories of college for me. :)

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    1. Sounds like the grandson has good taste, Margaret.

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  5. I often ate in a Korean restaurant in Savannah that had three different TV, each with a different Korean band playing. But I was either with someone and talking or by myself with a book, so I paid no attention. Their clients were mostly Korean.

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    1. Korean is one of the Asian foods that I have not tried a lot, Jeff, but I need to change that.

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  6. My musical taste is stuck in the 90's/ 2000's alternative and grunge. I am incorporating some new bands into my library, but very slowly.

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    1. I heard or read that after you hit a certain age like 35 you are pretty much set in your musical ways, Bathwater.

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  7. BTS is wonderful! I wonder if they would exist if they were from China? Anyways,...How grand to share musical memories with your children. Perhaps you could share the harm that will come to GAY children with the far right laws being passed. The music of the time of the laws was Grand Funk Railroad, Mama' and Papas, and Anita Bryant singing The Battle Hymn Of The Republic. *steps off soap box*

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    1. You are always welcome on the soap box, Jimmy. It is always appreciated. My home state is certainly trying to do its part and trying to pass some of those ignorant and hateful laws. We are making sure Kyle and Hayden are getting a well-rounded education in music and your suggestions will be added to the rotation.

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  8. I have heard of BTS only vaguely from others who are into Korean Pop stuff but have never heard of manga.

    Back when I read magazines, I read Popular Science and read it front to back, left to right.

    Probably once a week my kids say something that sparks a lyric from some 80's classic rock song. They always accuse me of making it up. Fortunately my Amazon Alexa device is always nearby to back me up. I don't think they understand how much better the 1980's were than the 2020's are when it comes to music.

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    1. I am sure your kids will not care but I agree with your assessment about the music of the 1980s and the 2020s, Ed.

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  9. My tastes go way back to the forty's and songs my mother sang. "Slow down, there's a rocky road ahead,", and then stopped in the sixties with Dylan and CCR, etc. Back in the first decade of this century, when I was the township's Fiscal Officer, there was a tax collecting arm of some government whose initials were CCR. I could never name them without two of the trustees breaking into "Looking out my back door."

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    1. CCR is good stuff, Joanne. My dad was a big fan and I heard it a lot growing up.

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  10. I may be nearly 70 but I know about manga and BTS! Tom and one of my grown sons are still into manga and watch some of the anime/manga TV series. You know each generation has to have their own "thing". It was hard on my two boys that we often liked the same things as them. 🙃

    Love the memes, especially the "How I feel when I have to scroll down to the year I was born."!

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    1. I think I am going to have to dip my toes into Anime/Manga waters to have something else for me and Kyle to bond over.

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  11. Ohhh love Manga!
    Especially because its love stories include all genders. And K-Pop has been a thing for awhile now. BTS are absolutely huge and the their fans span several demographics. Very catchy, too. And visually pleasing.
    I love the idea that BSB is almost nostalgic now. I have vinyl dating back to the forties and it is an experience to play that music to people under thirty.
    I loved Nirvana.

    XOXO

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    1. Nirvana was a game changer for me, Sixpence.

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  12. BTS, eh? Saw that and thought, hhmmm, you must have been a big Backstreet Boy fan... and then I read a little farther. I never liked Ratt. Bon Jovi was ok. Those were my eclectic music years. I've always thought graphic novels were for people who like pictures with their words, though, as an interesting side note: I was a Radar Specialist when I was in the Navy and we tracked all planes and ships on large plexiglass boards, which means I can still read and write backwards, or back to front.

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    1. I was in the Navy for a brief moment, Dave R. I think I lasted about 6 months. I got a medical discharge for a hearing loss. Bon Jovi has a few songs that tickle my karaoke bone.

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  13. It's good when parents and kids can share their tastes with each other - everybody learns! I think we tend to like most what we grew up with. I guess it just makes sense. My era was the 70s and I still enjoy the music even though I've realized since then just how suggestive the lyrics were. I was so naive at the time. Lately I've been branching out music-wise and it's been interesting.

    I love the sign about not playing Yahtzee with the squirrels - so funny!

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    1. I grew up listening to a lot of 70s music as well, jenny_o. Elvis and CCR are two that influenced my music tastes a lot.

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  14. I love BTS. I also like ATEEZ and MonstaX.

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    1. I will have to check out those groups, Mary.

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  15. I don't know manga, and while I've heard of BTS I don't know their music, though I might take them over BSB or NKOTB any day.

    That scrolling down to your birth year is painful!

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    1. BTS has some very catchy tunes, Bob, but I still prefer BSB or NKOTB.

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  16. I wish you could have been in the Rogue with me and the gg's when I put in the best of Jimi Hendrix and Abby's head exploded when she heard Purple Haze...Olivia liked it but she was more interested in figuring out the words. I thought Abby's head was going to fly off her shoulders from head banging so hard.

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  17. Tony likes the oldies, which to him is the 50's-60's, but he also likes Metallica. My oldies are 70's-80's and Faith has gotten a good dose of all of it.

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  18. Being as I don't have young children at home and my grandsons are still at the Baby Shark stage I am completely unfamiliar with modern music! I'll stick to the 50's through 80's thank you!

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    1. I don't miss the Baby Shark stage.

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  19. I'm too old to know who any of those groups you listed were. I like Motown and Dean Martin, Tony Bennett and the like. I rarely watch music video's and was never into head banger stuff e ven when I was younger. But, the apple falling from the tree thing makes sense to me. Had to laugh at scrolling for my age

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    1. I love me some of the Motown classics, Sandy.

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