Fancy That!

I wish I knew why there aren't more singles put out by musicians today. In the 80's and 90's Mariah Carey did it right. You could look at the Billboard charts and see she was at number one with one song and debuting another. She had so many number one hits because people never got tired of requesting to hear her. She kept them interested. This was true of artists like Whitney Houston and Michael Jackson. So why do artists today wait until the radio has played their song till the rest of us are blue in the face? We are ready for new stuff. Where is the new music? I've listened to plenty of albums and thought, why didn't they release song #5 as a single for the radio?


I went into Walmart and Target recently and saw that the listening scanners were taken out of the music sections. MMMMm..... I don't know if anyone knows why. For me, if I had an album I thought I might want to buy, I'd pre-listen and then write down the songs I planned to download into my MP3 player later. So, is everyone like me? Do you pass on a CD based on that alone? Maybe it depends on the artist. If it's a new Carrie Underwood or Alicia Keys or Natalie Grant CD, I'm taking it to the register without any pretenses.


I am a music junkie. Just ask John. Let me tell you his collection of 80's Journey, Eagles, Phil Collins, and so on. . . is very thick. I wanted to buy him something for our 8 yr. anniversary, and as soon as he opened it, I got the look. He already had the 2 CD's I'd wrapped up for him. Back to Target. Frowns.....


Don't get me wrong, I love Christian music too. That's probably why I'm all over the place. Yesterday I was on a break and went off to the Christian Book store to do some homework. I wanted to listen to more of Babbie Mason. I went on a women's conference last weekend where we spent an evening with our guest, Babbie. I have not followed her too much. I knew she was teaching at Lee University. Her class is every Tues. on songwriting. She was so real, and made it look too easy. I suppose after you've been working in this kind of creativity for so long, it's second nature. She was so inspiring. She said she was driving to class one morning from Atlanta, and started humming a chorus, " God is in the room, God is in the room, Can you feel His touch, He loves you so much. God is in the room, God is in this room, Can't you feel Him, God is in the room." She went to class and gave it to her students. The assignment was to write 2 verses, and maybe a bridge. She said she had several that were good, and she picked her favorite to record on this new CD Everything. http://cdbaby.com/cd/babbiemason Babbie has so many CD's over many years, and we met her son, Chaz. Chaz is in college right now. (not sure where) Babbie is so proud of how Chaz is doubly talented compared to where she was in her gifting at the same age. Chaz is going to be great. He sang 2 songs and played a black painted guitar while singing to us ladies "Love Yourself". It was hard holding back the tears. I searched for Chaz on the internet, and his sites are still primitive, but he is slowly getting out here.

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