Happy Saturday! It’s been a great week here. My kids’ school participated in the local competition for the National High School Musical Theater Awards and walked away with multiple honors, including Outstanding Musical Production. Four of the high school students were selected to compete for a shot at the national competition in June.
On a much smaller scale, I’m still plugging away at my various projects. My paragraph above may give away a clue about why so much of what I write is music and/or arts-driven. I’m continuing to snip from Nightsong this week, part of my Notes from Boston series in which the performing arts feature heavily. Last time, EMTs Izzy and Val were sent to pick up a dinosaur skeleton. Here, they’re on the way. With no other emergencies to worry about, Val’s got the radio on. The song referred to here is central to the plot of the first book in the series. 6 (very short) paragraphs, mainly dialog, instead of 6 sentences.
Some song with a guy singing about what sounded like a hell of a blowjob came on. Izzy glanced at Val, who shrugged.
“What are you listening to?” he asked.
“It’s like an off-brand Top Forty.” She snickered. “They used to play this one on Christian radio, but now it’s a mainstream hit because it’s definitely not about the Good Lord.”
“I can hear the lyrics. Did you just say this was on Jesus Radio?”
Val laughed harder. “Yes! It was popular in the spring. Pretty sure no one had a clue.”
“Oh, I’m pretty sure they did.”
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Did he share the lyrics with you? I remember odds and ends of lines, but I can’t recall if there was more.
I love Val’s ‘definitely not about the Good Lord’ – how could she tell? 😀
Oh, the song? They’re listening to Trevor’s ode to Andre. It’s in Anthem. I had some help writing that, and I sent it to a few of my guy friends to see if it was suggestive enough (they said it was). The whole thing came from the tendency of Christian pop to sound *exactly like* regular pop, just replacing “baby” with “Jesus.” Also, there are a ton of songs that sound…well, not much like they’re about God at all. I have a playlist, LOL. There was one in the late 1990s or maybe around 2000 which I now cannot listen to because the singer kept going on about getting on her knees.
As for Val, I don’t know whether she’s just particularly sharp (or has a filthy mind, LOL) or if it’s because by the time of this scene, Trevor is well and truly out courtesy of Nate.
LOL this was great–just the right touch of snark 🙂
TBH, this was how I felt on a weekly basis in one of those modern type churches that only sing knock-off pop songs. LOL!
Oh, my…(chortles)
Hehe, I need to tune into that radio channel 😉
Ha! Me too.
That sounds like a fun radio channel — and a fun song.
I think you need to record it and put it in a post for us to listen to…
LOL! I did write the lyrics, but I should have someone set it to music.
Just everything about this is fun.
Oh, this is awesome!