Making a mix tape for your parents

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What are you thinking?

The idea of making a “mix tape” of music you think your parents would like is foolish at best.

You don’t know your parents. They are, well, your parents. They grew up in a different time, a different culture, with different taste and values.

Giving them a tape that you feel might reflect your ideal of their musical taste may be a waste of time or worse, an insult.

Think about it this way.

How will you feel when your kids present you with music on a form of media you have never used with the best intentions of pleasing you? First you have to figure out how to play the thing, and then listen to it while smiling like you are enjoying it only to put it away in a dusty spot after they are gone.

Or you could make a “mix tape” of music you like and present it to your parents as a gift trying to find a common bond or give them a sample of your present taste in sound. If your parents don’t listen to the same type of music all the time (and if they do you may want to be concerned) it too will be put into a dusty spot.

Keep the “mix tape” idea for your friends to share a tune or phrase in hopes they will also like it and support the artist.