pandora laughs

alright so im sure most of yall have been exposed to pandora by now....if not, in a nutshell...its an internet radio station where you type in an artist, band, or song name....then pandora generates a playlist similar to that taste of music....i was skeptical at first but the site is VERY accurate

anyway, in class on day we were doing some coloring of skulls and skeletons for my students' day of the dead project and i asked what music they might want to listen to. given all the differences in taste, i brainstormed my head for music that EVERYONE likes....the closest i could think of was music from disney movies. lets be serious, its hard NOT to like songs from the likes of Alladin, Little Mermaid, Lion King, etc.....

so i type in Disney in pandora...what luck, the first song was that phil collins song from tarzan (be in my heart or something)....next was whole new world, followed by beauty and the beast....what a great station with all the disney hits!.......then the shit hit the fan....

what followed was an endless array of hannah montana, jonas brothers, hillary duff, high school musical, etc, etc....at first reaction i started dying out laughing, then something even funnier occurred....almost all of my female students KNEW EVERY SINGLE WORD TO EVERY SONG...apparently, the other channel behind MTV that my students watch is the Disney Channel. i laughed even more on the inside at the thought of jamming out to the Disney pandora station with my students at Wingfield. their reactions and outbursts played out in my imagination

"WTF is this sh*t mr jimenez! you gay or something?"

10 miles.....only 10 miles separates these districts and students