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May 5, 2008
Crawfish Boil: Hot!
We’re all about music festivals, so Saturday our family headed downtown to the Crawfish Boil and saw Flo Rida, Gavin deGraw, and Fergie.
I don’t know that I’ve discussed the rap music phenomenon since I published the video of Drew and me trying to do the Soulja Boy dance. In a word, Finn continues to listen to this stuff and Bill and I can barely understand any of it. Earlier this year we persuaded Finn that we were both worthy and capable of learning the chorus to Flo Roda’s hit “Low.” Finn was doubtful but indulged us.
Once we got to the festival, I felt a surge of coolness that at forty-one I was able to sing “Apple bottom jeans, boots with the fur, the whole club was lookin’ at her” along with the rest of the crowd.
Flo Rida looks pensive, almost beatific in this photo. Don’t let that fool you for a second. At one point he scaled the scaffolding on the side of the stage while he sang, and his jeans sagged way below his cheeks in the back. On the up side, his underwear was sparkling clean. Still, it didn’t seem possible that he’d be able to dance and sing without revealing his family jewels. I was sore afraid, as I have only two hands but was responsible for six young pairs of eyes that would need to be covered in such an event.
Here’s a picture I found that shows this strange fashion statement.
I knew people were sagging, but this was a new low for me. (Thanks to al.com for the picture.)
I’d heard the name Gavin DeGraw before, and I pegged as for a country singer. Maybe he’d smooched Carrie Underwood a time or two.
Actually, he’s a singer songwriter with an edge, and you’ve heard his song “I Don’t Want To Be.” (caution: sound link!) He’s also quite the cutie, and if I were Carrie Underwood I’d be smooching him. He pounded the piano and sang and put on the type of show that makes you want to run buy the CD.
(If he can’t decide what to get his Mom for Mother’s Day, I have the perfect idea: the necklace he’s wearing in this picture. Big necklaces are back in for women, and he’d look much cooler without it.)
But my family’s aching buns can only be attributed to Fergie. She was full of energy, had awesome dancers, and had a charming personality when she talked to the crowd between songs. She was so enchanting, in fact, that when she sang “Big Girls Don’t Cry” I was able to ignore the horrifying subject/possessive pronoun disagreement in the line “and I’m gonna miss you like a child misses their blanket.” I even sang along. Nor did I shudder when she spelled tasty “T-A-S-T-E-Y” in her hit “Fergalicious.” She gets an A+ for showmanship because I’m the biggest grammar geek around.
Fergie wore three different outfits during her set. One showed her impressive abs, like this:
except that it was white.
For her hard rocking set she wore the same outfit she wore on American Idol a couple of weeks ago.
No one was more thrilled than Bill when she sang “Barracuda,” crawling all over the stage, and throwing in a couple of cartwheels to prove she’s not pregnant.
Fergie was highly amused that a city would plan a music festival around crawfish, but that’s what we do down here.
How much crawfish will Drew and Porter eat?
We don’t know. We ran out of money long before we were able to make that determination.
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One year ago in My Tiny Kingdom: My boys reviewed the 2007 Festival, which featured the Spin Doctors, Akon and Hinder. Their thoughts are here.
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May 5th, 2008 at 1:06 pm, Liz Says:
You RAWK!!!
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May 5th, 2008 at 1:58 pm, CourtneyRyan369 Says:
Awesome!
Gavin DeGraw is somewhat local to me and already became a HUGE hit in our neck of the woods. He has some great songs. You might enjoy “Chariot” if you haven’t heard it yet.
http://www.myspace.com/gavindegraw
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May 5th, 2008 at 2:33 pm, Jamie Says:
What a cool outing!
Glad there wasn’t any family jewel flashing.
May 5th, 2008 at 4:52 pm, mandy Says:
Man, I wish there was fun stuff to do around here like that. I might even try one of those thingies.
NOW I am self-conscious about my grammer. SO much so, I had to google self conscious and I HAD mispelled it! eek
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May 5th, 2008 at 8:44 pm, MammaLoves Says:
Oh I miss crawfish season!!
And PA-Flo’s got an awesome bod–you know through the tats and all.
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May 6th, 2008 at 7:00 am, Robin Davis Says:
Trust me ~ you do not want to know any of Soulja Boy’s lyrics.
You are the coolest mom. Our church staff (including me) “danced” to a Christmas version of Superman… yikes. Our youth director wrote it - titled - Hold Dat Reindeer. sad, hilarious, not cool. lol
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May 6th, 2008 at 9:15 am, Kate Says:
That “child misses their blanket” line annoys me EVERY TIME I HEAR IT, too. But, like you, I still sing along, cringing only slightly.
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May 7th, 2008 at 8:17 am, Susu Says:
Gavin’s song is the same one that Bo Bice sang on American Idol - I spotted him and his wife recently at a superstore on 119 - he’s not much taller than me and much thinner. I don’t know what came over me, but I told him that I loved him!!! He said that he loves all of his fans, too.
Did your car get towed like many others at the Boil?
May 7th, 2008 at 9:21 am, Michelle@Life with Three Says:
Wow — those pants do hit a new low. I would have been nervous they were going to drop, too! And the whole subject/possesive pronoun thing irritates me to no end, as well. Every time I hear that part of the song, something inside of me winces just a tiny bit.
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May 7th, 2008 at 3:37 pm, Elmo Says:
There really is nothing redeeming about Hip-Hop Culture . It is Cancer on the Black Community and the Wannabes.
May 8th, 2008 at 11:40 am, nandango Says:
You may have a festival in honor of crawfish but in my hometown ours is called Toad Suck Daze - um, yeah. And the entertainment isn’t nearly as great as what you have.
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