Remember that thing about babies and classical music? When my kids were little, it was all over the parenting magazines I devoured with ferocity back then. You were supposed to play classical music for them to increase their IQ and make them, you know, way smarter than those jackass kids who were listening to- I don't know- country music or The Backstreet Boys. So I gave it a try.
And my poor daughter has been terrorized by Johann Sebastian Bach ever since.
Last night I put on an old Bach CD I used to play for the kids when they were little. Immediately Lele, who pretty much laughs in the face of fear under normal circumstance, screamed, "Aghhh! Turn it off! It's very, very scary!"
I kind of laughed at first. Scary?
But from under the pillow she yelled, "No! I hate it! Turn it off and that's final! I mean it!"
"Lele, what's the deal?" I asked. "You don't like this?"
"NO! I hate this song. It makes me think of very scary puppet shows. And I never, never want to hear it again."
So, uh, I guess it's a big N-O to Toccata and Fugue for organ in D minor from little Miss Lele. Sorry, Johann.
