Hoping this will help me when she’s 15…..

During a round trip FOUR hour drive to my parents over the past weekend, there were conflicting opinions over what music Mommy & Josie should be listening to.  The one who actually had control over the vehicle wanted to listen to her glaringly communist local public radio station.  The one who, until this past summer, still crapped in her pants wanted the corporate controlled Wiggles.  We were at an impasse that actually resulted in the least mature of the two (moi) to turn off the radio entirely, thus leaving both of us unhappy.  After all, if I can’t have what I want then NEITHER of us will!  Why? ‘Cause I am the MOMMY!

After several ill attempts at finding some common ground, Iron & Wine: no, Disney Princesses: double no, we finally stumbled upon one group we both can sing along to:

ABBA

Oh yes, my friends.  This is not my first foray into this Swedish foursome.  I once blared their euro-disco tunage from the windows of my first vehicle, a 1986 pee green Subaru legacy sedan.  But by the time I hit college, I had put my sequins and go-go boots in a storage bin and while they occasionally made their way out on a night out at the local disco bar “Flashbacks,” ABBA was no longer in my regular CD rotation.  It had been replaced with “Rent” and Ani Difranco.

My love of this fabulous foursome was re-kindled last month when I watched “Mamma Mia” with my little sisters while home for the holidays.  While the film is not necessarily one that really makes you think about you need to change your life/finances/way of thinking but it is a nice, heart touching movie ***MUSICAL*** (warning: I sing.  a lot.)  entirely based around, you guessed it: ABBA songs.  So, I cued up one of their bigger hits “Super Trooper” on the IPOD and waited to see how Josie would react.  Let’s just say:  we listened to ABBA the whole. ride. there. and. back.  Not only does she like to listen to it, she sings along!  Albeit, most of the words just SOUND like the words in the song but she is trying and it is so cute to watch!

I’m hoping this will last through her teen years, but for some reason I’m quite certain my ears will still be bleeding from my fair share of boy bands and pop starlets…..but, as ABBA would say “I have a dream, a song to sing, to help me cope with anything…”