...mixtape #4

Let’s sing and dance together!

 

Lulu is kind a sweet little-girl who loves to watch local tv. She’s 7^th, and she just beginner in English, she just learns to know about colors, fruits name, and some short conversations.

When she was 5^th, she loves ST12. Yeya, the band has a lot of on-air-show in so many-many early-morning-music-show. It’s okay, no way, as long as she’s sings and still loves Spongebob and Patrick, and also loves to turn on the Dancow’s CD collection. She’s enjoying her childhood, like I was crazy about Westlife. That’s about which media you see, so you’ll get your ‘superhero’, in music too.

One day, she asked me about, “am I have ST12 songs?”. Ah, sadly, I wasn’t. But, hei, to comforted her, I played “Sing” from Mocca for her. Guess what, she likes it. Who wouldn’t love that song, anyway? Then I leave some Mocca’s to her, yeah, even she never listens again.

And, here we are, pillow-ing and blanket-ing every night. So, she has to listen for every song I’ve played. Happy to know that she loves any. Okai, she dislikes Coldplay, then I wouldn’t play them to Lulu. I try other-and-other-and-other songs to her. Choose some cheery tone, and wait for her reactions, ‘til get her favorite songs.

I name it as: The Lulu Mixtape (a fun mixtape)

Which songs she likes? Here we go:

I’d Rather Dance With You (KOC)

She very-very-loves this song. O, who wouldn’t? When she watched the VC for the first time, she wanted me to replay the VC, again and again. For what, she was dancing like the ballerina on the VC. Hhhaaa… she always offers me to play that VC for her, then we dance together. Move our legs and hands. The funniest thing came when she said to me, “Mbak, the VC was made on 2004, Lulu wasn’t yet birth”. Ahahhahaaaa… :D

Beautiful - Cantik (Cherry Belle)

Hey, come on, I bet that every girl who watch TV must know this song. “You’re beautiful, beautiful, kamu cantik, cantik, dari hatimuuu…”. A local K-pop-fever-girlband with nine (or seven?) dool-look-wanna-be who dance like a kindergarten students and love to say “chibby, chibby, chibby, hap-hap-hap”. A sarcastic term, uh. But no, they're sweet anyway. In my opinion, whose barely enjoy this song, the song is about being positive thinking, like one of my friend said about them in his review. That’s good for their fans, the little-girls (like Lulu) and teenager. A funny, cheery, and lovely song.

The Best Thing (Mocca)

Lulu loves to follows Arina’s gesture when she shakes her head. Ahaahah… she loves to humming too. Try to says: “I've got the best thing in the world, cause i got you in my heart, and this screw little world, let's hold hand together, we can share forever, maybe someday the sky will be colored with our love”. An another cheery and funny song.

Sing (Mocca)

This song is a first touch between Lulu and Mocca. The easy English phrase in this song is easy to followed by Lulu. Short and clean.  “Sing. Sng a song, sing aloud, sing out strong. Sing a good things, not bad. Sing of happy, not sad”. That sooo easy to her who barely learn English and in a fun way too, anyway.

Aksi Kucing (White Shoes and The Couples Company)

Ahhahaha, that’s was genius when Sari and friends added clause “meong, meong” in this song. That’s  iconic. Hear the intro, that’s make us dance. A funny song, uh? And listen for this: “Apa guna Bu, malu-malu kucing (meong-meong), meong-meong di belakang suaranya nyaring. Jangan suka Bu, diam-diam kucing (meong-meong), sudah menerkan sebelumnya berunding.” In the end of this song, Lulu asked me, “Mbak, is the song tell about kucing (cat)?”. Hhhaa, then I tell her, that, this song is about to, don’t be a ‘kucing’, don’t be a gossiper, ah here: “Jangan jahat sama temen, jangan suka ngomongin kejelekan-kejelekan temen ke orang-orang. Ntar kamu nggak punya temen, itu jahat. Kalau misal kamu nggak suka karena ada temen yang nakal, kamu ngomong langsung sama dia, biar dia nggak nakalin kamu lagi. Kalau ada temen yang nakal sama kamu, kamu juga nggak boleh balesin nakal.” Is that an advice? Uh!

Settle Down (Kimbra)

I just barely very-serious-to-know this song and sing it very loud, almost every day. Such a shame, uh? We watched the video together, and, yeah, she loved the VC. In other way, Lulu loves to dance in the end of the song. Okai, we love to dance together. The VC is telling about our childhood, I think. We wanna seem like our mom, who has a husband, our father. Then, we play a-wife-y thing with our doll. Did you ever? Of course I did. Hear this part: “I wanna raise a child, i wanna raise a child. Won't you raise a child with me? raise a child. We'll call her Nebraska, Nebraska Jones. She'll have your nose, just so you know.” Yes, Lulu knows about it and she loves it. I bet, if she knows what the lyric wanna tells about, she will love to sing it. But, you know, its kind a not-easy to sing it. Then, I wish you agree with me, that it’s an incredible song.
 

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The conclusions:

Lulu is more interest on rhythm and video clip. She doesn’t care about lyric or song meaning. It shows the clause that, a child will interest in tone and visualization is true. :))))

Notabene:

She can’t spell English well, so, she just enjoy the music, humming, swinging and dancing. But, you know, that’s funny. Just maybe, kind like, if you’re boy and you have a little-bro, then you enjoy the match till midnight.  Anyway, she hates ERK’s “Cinta Melulu”, she hates phrase “lulu” over there. :))))

Post-script:

Let's sing and dance together with these songs:

1. I'd Rather Dance With You - KOC

2. Beautiful (Cantik) - Cherry Belle

3. The Best Thing - Mocca

4. Sing - Mocca

5. Aksi Kucing - WSATCC

6. Kimbra - Settle Down