Yep, after all those vivaldi CDs, Baby Mozarts, Baby Bachs and the entire array of music of both the classical and the kiddie variety, my son has decided his favorite song is “Hotel California” by the Eagles. My husband says he shows real good taste in music for a 9-month-old, but I am really baffled by it all. Neel (my son) refuses to go to sleep unless we play this song before bedtime. It soothes him the best next to my holding him.
Consider this - Neel is old enough to get stranger anxiety. He is a little scared around strangers. My husband wanted to get him used to others, so he took him to a friend’s place. Apparently, the little one just kept crying, sobbing real bad through the visit. After about 15 minutes, my husband couldn’t take it anymore and played “Hotel California” in the friends’ CD player. It was magic, how it calmed the baby and soothed him enough that he was actually quite happy and playing with the people around by the time I showed up there. Interesting choice in music, my baby’s got!
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I agree with your husband, Neel has great taste in music. A rocker in the making, eh? Try November Rain (Guns n Roses) too.
Posted by: Patrix at February 23, 2005 11:15 AM
I have known desi kids who got calmed down by backstreet boys. Another kids liked “Radha Kaise Na Jale” from Lagaan. (just that song from Lagaan). Every baby develops preferences very early in life.
Posted by: JK at February 23, 2005 11:28 AM
Patrix, I like these songs a lot too - it is just surprising that I would never have thought about Hotel California as an especially soothing song. A little rocker, only if he is destined to make millins by the time he turns 10 ;)
JK, that is pretty strange how babies suddenly like something and don’t like other things. It is like they are born with these innate preferences.
Posted by: Shanti at February 23, 2005 1:03 PM
I just read an interesting article about synesthesia linked to from the J-Walk Blog
http://www.intelligencer.ca/webapp/sitepages/content.asp?contentid=98953&catname=Local+News
Maybe Hotel California tastes good to him.
Posted by: John Davies at February 23, 2005 7:37 PM
whatever their preference is, its likely to be something other than what the parent expected (wanted?) it to be. atleast that is the case with my daughter. i particularly hate rap and as soon as she hears a rap sound byte in the TV, she starts dancing… any other song? couldn’t care less
-hari
Posted by: Hari at February 23, 2005 10:59 PM
John Davies, that sounds like an interesting theory :)
Hari? I guess these days they don’t even want to wait till they are teenagers to start shocking us, do thay?
Posted by: Shanti at February 24, 2005 9:56 AM
man..! that kid rocks big time..!! ;)
Posted by: chikuado at February 28, 2005 4:42 AM
Thanks, Chikuado :)
Posted by: Shanti at February 28, 2005 9:02 AM
Hotel California - the pulse and the minor key modality are just kind of homey for a little one. (And it’s not so much Rock as it is a Tango.)
If he had picked Life In The Fast Lane - then I’d be worried…
tpf
Posted by: Timothy Fox at February 28, 2005 10:27 PM
Thanks for that explanation, Timothy. Now, we play that song every day for him and he is fast asleep by the time it is over.
Posted by: Shanti at March 1, 2005 8:55 AM