The first music I remember wanting and receiving was the Spice Girls' debut album Spice on cassette tape. Since I was nine years old at the time, I doubt I actually saved up my money and bought this for myself. It was probably something I asked my parents for and received as a gift. Still, I remember listening to this all the time at summer camp. In the girls bathroom. While my friends and I pretended to be the 1996 US Women's Gymnastics team. We also choreographed a dance to one of the songs ("If U Can't Dance") for the talent show. We were pretty awesome.
I believe that the first album I actually bought was Britney Spears ...Baby One More Time. I mostly remember my mom hating this CD, but I still have it.
So it's pretty clear that I was a pre-teen/teenaged girl in the late 90s. Who else would have owned both of those albums?
I do not own either of those albums. I have also never really bought music. I suppose by a technicality I got one or two video game soundtracks that came with a special edition of the game. I think Windwaker was one of those.
ReplyDeleteHow have you never bought music? What about that Cage the Elephant Album? (Or did you make me buy that for you?)
DeleteThe first music I bought is a tricky question. The first music I remember being mine is a cassette tape of Food by 'Weird' Al, but this is certainly not the first music I bought, although I wish it were. weird Al was such an important part of my musical coming of age. No, the first album I paid for with my own dollars at a store was Americana by The Offspring. What an amazing album, another work of mostly parody, it took me years to realize that so many of the songs I knew and loved from that album were adapted from much earlier songs with much happier stories. That album launched Offspring into superstardom (rightfully so) and was my first introduction into current music that rocked and I have never looked back.
ReplyDeleteWay to bypass 90s pop and be way cooler than me
DeleteYeah, I was pretty much raised on my Dad's music (Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Cranberries, RHCP, Pixies) so by the time I was ready to be self-aware and buy my own music the way had already been paved.
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