i like music. wait; scratch that...i love music. music makes me feel good. i used to study (the rare occasions i did study) to music. i love the classics and contemporary in just about every genre. i go out looking for music more than clothes and food.
during tour i realized that an ipod was definitely worth double its weight in gold because we would go through a virtual ghost town with little to no radio signal. returning to the south for vacation meant that i could really enjoy the radio stations that i listened to as a child.
but i was in for a surprise.
a surprise not from the stations, but from the music. pop culture and "what's hot now" dictates what i hear on the radio (this has always been true in so many ways), but apparently i am totally out of the loop. out of the loop as in the loop actually being the pacific ocean, and i'm in alabama...that much out of the proverbial "loop".
the hot thing on radio is auto-tune (i knew that one) and the word swagger. swagger is said so often in a song that i wonder if these people are simply overcompensating for the lack of swagger they have. i've already typed the word three (four counting the title) and my fingers are rejecting the keyboard, which leads me to typing with my feet.
so with all of that said, i would like to kill the word. i have never really wished death upon anyone, but i frequently wish death to many words and actions. i was sick of the term bling bling for the longest time and i really wanted to kill it, but news anchors and politicians killed the word simply by using it.
while anchors and politicians and even our parents are the type of people that normally kill the "it" word of the moment, swagger (ugh, physical response everytime i hear/see/spell that word) hasn't gone the way of the dinosaur as of yet. i seriously do wonder why, but instead of wondering i'm going to kill it by creating my own origin of the word swagger (ugh). i figure that if it's something that the "cool" kids wouldn't want to associate themselves with, they'll stop using the word
the "s" word is derived from pentecostal televangelist pioneer jimmy swaggart. jimmy swaggart was born in 1935 in ferriday, louisiana. at that time there was no such thing as the term swagger, but swaggart's early days in radio ministry quickly grew into televised programs and fans of his couldn't help but enjoy his style (which included wearing a butterfly collar shirt, waving a bible in the air, crying on cue like a seasoned actor), later to be called swaggar or swagger. people were so into swaggart that during the early 70s, viewers coined the phrase "it's time to get my swag on", meaning that it was time to turn on the television, jimmy swaggart's coming on.
due to the rise in christian networks (meaning the market was flooded), his popularity never reached it's full potential.
hopefully that will begin the death of a word that we know as swagger (ugh...gotta vomit now)
peace
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