I have a daughter and I wanted her to play music too, but didn't want to push.
I gave her a keyboard when she was rather small, because she showed interest in music when it was on television. She saw I was enjoying it and I was always moving and dancing on music. But she wasn't really interested in that toyish keyboard. The guitar was too big for her, so I tried to get her on the ukelele. Nope, not interested. She was interested in dancing though and did Jazzballet when she was about 8 years old. Later on she went on to another danceschool, but stopped when she was about 14. In the meantime I bought a bigger keyboard - a more realistic kind.
She tried, but I saw she didn't have feeling for it. Suddenly she showed interest in drums. I tried her to start on electronic drums, but she wanted real drums! She has been taking lessons now for 2 years (she will be 18 in january).
But dancing is really her thing and I drive her every wednesday to Amsterdam to Hip-Hop-lessons, where she is dancing to Usher and other Urban music. And I watch and enjoy it.
I enjoy the music too.
I have come to value the rapscene of today, because there are some very good productions. I just saw the clip on MTV of Jesus Walks - a very impressive video and music production. (there are actually two video's of this rap).
I like singers like Christina Aguilera and Justin Timberlake and rappers like Eminem and Nelly (I really like the beat on "hot in herre"). And that small girl Christina Millian wrote some very good songs. She wrote Play, sung by Jennifer Lopez.

Recently I saw a 1989 documentary on the rap scene. I was impressed with black teens who are poor and use their body as musical instruments and rap with very interesting rhythmic patterns. They didn't have money to buy instruments and made use of whatever they had to express themselves with. Some of these "boys" live in Beverley Hills now.
On the other hand there are the richer boys and girls that had every opportunity and play an instrument and compose music, write lyrics etc. For instance Alicia Keys, who also sings with Usher, another very musical guy. Alicia performed at the North Sea Jazz Festival in The Hague.

There is a lot of music that goes around and a lot of musical children too. But there is not only music, but also different art-forms that have connections to music, like dancing and mixing (the "DJ/electronic route"). The many danceforms, like hiphop, lock'n'pop, streetdance,electric boogie, etc. are inspiring and far more sophisticated than the dances of the sixties and seventies.

Sorry guys, but I really love it today.
And "Laziness"? I don't think so!

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