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Music II

Olive is turning four this Tuseday, and there is both too much and too little to say. She's bright, and cheerful, and mischievous, and helpful, and emotional. She's everything that a child should be, and a few things that she knows she shouldn't be.

She's going to receive quite a few birthday presents this year, but the one which took by far the most effort from Christina and I1 is the second custom mix for her Toniebox. She loves music, loves dance, and loves precisely the first three songs from her previous iteration. We're hoping that she loves at least five of this mix.


Olive's Mix II

  1. Jump: Van Halen
  2. Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger: Scary Pockets
  3. Bad: Michael Jackson
  4. Lone Digger: Caravan Palace
  5. Shake It Off: Taylor Swift
  6. Love Shack: The B-52s
  7. Boyfriend: Best Coast
  8. Sprawl II: Arcade Fire
  9. Willow: Taylor Swift
  10. Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star: Best Coast
  11. Ballroom Blitz: Sweet
  12. I Wanna Dance with Somebody: Whitney Houston
  13. Funkytown: Lipps Inc.
  14. Rosanna: Toto
  15. No Cars Go: Arcade Fire
  16. Bibi & Tina Title Melody
  17. Monster Mash: Boris Picket

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Last time I put the mix together alone, but this time Christina took a much more active role selecting songs. Is it weird to compete a little with your spouse over the child's musical taste? Even if it is, that appears to be where we've arrived. For now, anyway; in the fullness of time, she'll become a teenager, and inevitably we'll be old and think that her favorite music is unlistenable noise.