Grade School – The Effects of Sexy-Ass-Music

Holub Middle School. Oh how I miss those years. I think 7th & 8th grade were my prime years as a student in grade school. It was amazing! This entry is about 10 years late but damnit, I miss middle school!

The jammers:
+Kai – Say You’ll Stay
+Jocelyn Enriquez – Do You Miss Me
+No Merci – When I die
+Stevie B – Spring Love
+Pinay – Is It Real
+Angelica – Angel Baby

Those were the days when I thought I was born in to the wrong ethnicity, I thought I was Pinay and had a loathsome amount of Filipino boyfriends. I seriously got really excited going to school and particularly the school dances. My Filipino friends had gigantic families and they always threw parties, I mean ALWAYS. I think that’s how I developed my love for tree houses. My friend’s grandmother’s house had the biggest tree house I had ever seen.

Speaking of grade school and music… what were we, as kids, doing listening to all these sexy-ass songs. The 90s were seriously a decade of raw sex songs. Tyrese, 112, Joe, Xscape, SWV, Ginuwine, Keith Sweat, Montel Jordan!  The list just goes on and on. Is this an indication of anything? Are we effected by the music we all grew up on? I mean, I left 8th grade come year 2000, but still! ”Get It On Tonight”, I was lip singing this stuff.

Did we really start off that young, was it the effect of music and entertainment? We were 12/13 years old! Goodness I cannot grasp the reality of the fact that kids now, 12 and 13, are doing what I was doing back then. It’s all way too hypocritical of me.

I had my first kiss, surprisingly not a Filipino boy, in middle school behind some alley, hahah! If I could remember correctly my first boyfriend, of which I asked him out, is Filipino. I remember his name too, Bernardo Marinas. Whatever happened to him. He vanished from the surface of this earth sort of. Anyway, middle school was super fun for me. Of the 13 years (kindergarden) that I spent in grade school, I remember middle school the most. More so, of all the music I’ve ever listened to, I remember lyrics to the songs I listened to in middle school the most as well.

You can’t come out of Alief District without knowing rap music, hip hop, Filipino singers and chop & screwed music. While the rest of the world jammed Pop music and all of Texas were square dancing (kidding), we were kept true to the roots of Alief.

The other day I was watching a movie with my roommate, “Whip It” to be exact. He could name every white person that cameo in the film. Suddenly he was stuck on one, she’s black. I replied, “That’s Eve!” I know my rappers.

Well to be less random. Music is a huge influence, especially while you’re growing up. If you could remember a song that pin points an exact memory, it would probably be while you were young, depressed & going through teenage hormones. Isn’t it great?

Before I sign off on this matter,

This is for Houston.

That’s why we do the …….. !