When Parents Text ... About Music
(h/t to Chrissy Wilmes for linking this.) Every so often, a gimmicky Internet site crops up that's legitimately hilarious. Such as When Parents Text, whose tagline is, "small keypads, old hands." The premise is simple: The site collects hilarious text missives from parents about, oh, anything you can think of. The simplicity of the idea is genius, however -- after all, parents are the funniest text-messengers around. (A to Z's dad is always keeping tabs on the weather in St. Louis and letting her know when the Weather Channel is broadcasting from there.)
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Of course, the occasions when parents discuss popular music are also often unintentionally hilarious -- especially when done by text. Here are a few examples from the site.
MOM: How do you pronounce Ke$ha? Like Key"dollar sign"haa.
MOM: Or is it Key"dolla sign"haa, bc that's more hip? Call me and tell me!
DAD: Thought black I peas were good! That furbie chick is hot
DAD: Well. It probably is an infection. If you have no fever, no big tender lumps on the side of your neck, but do have nasal drainage, them it is probably a viral infection and you just treat the symptoms. On a different subject. Why cant i stop listening to cold play?
ME: Ummm i don't know!
DAD: Is your snot yellow? Cold play reference!
DAD: whenever i try to type "rapper" it comes up with rapscallion. huh.
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