You know how when you listen to some songs they remind you of times and places in your life? Well I had a song totally ruined for me and every time I hear it, I think of this one situation in time. I just heard it on the radio yesterday and mind when right back there to this most tacky event.
Someone I know, let’s call her CC (for Cowboy Cadillac by Garth Brooks), hosted a 25th wedding anniversary party for two people that I know. That sounds like a very nice gesture doesn’t it? Well I thought so too until CC brought out her “slideshow” that was intended for the happy couple. However, it was a total blast in the face to both the people since they are both Christian people and the song(s) selected by CC were totally inappropriate. Not only that, but the images in her little spectacle (I believe the intentions were to be hurtful) were of her and her family and has absolutely nothing to do with the happy couple or their marriage.
It started out okay musically, even though the images were strange and I wondered where she was going with it. You would think they would be photos of the couple and their life together but it wasn’t. I think it started out with “Memories” by Barbara Streisand which is a very pretty song. The inconsequential images kept going and the music changed into “All Summer Long” by Kid Rock.
Now what would possess someone to play that song for a couples 25th wedding anniversary? “Smoking funny things?” “Drinking whiskey from the bottle?” “Making love out by the dock?” What the hell? Are you kidding me?
I can’t even hear that song anymore without thinking of how tacky CC is and what lengths she would go to try to be disrespectful to these two people. I think there was another song after “All Summer Long” but after that came on I completely lost interest.
Read the lyrics below and tell me if you think that is appropriate at all for two elderly, Christian people on their 25th wedding anniversary.
"All Summer Long"
It was 1989, my thoughts were short my hair was long
Caught somewhere between a boy and man
She was seventeen and she was far from in-between
It was summertime in Northern Michigan
Splashing through the sand bar
Talking by the campfire
It's the simple things in life, like when and where
We didn't have no internet
But man I never will forget
The way the moonlight shined upon her hair
[Chorus:]
And we were trying different things
We were smoking funny things
Making love out by the lake to our favorite song
Sipping whiskey out the bottle,
not thinking 'bout tomorrow
Singing Sweet home Alabama all summer long
Singing Sweet home Alabama all summer long
Catching Walleye from the dock
Watching the waves roll off the rocks
She'll forever hold a spot inside my soul
We'd blister in the sun
We couldn't wait for night to come
To hit that sand and play some rock and roll
Now nothing seems as strange as when the leaves began to change
Or how we thought those days would never end
Sometimes I'll hear that song and I'll start to sing along
And think man I'd love to see that girl again
