Isabella: Future Singing Sensation?

As you may know, my daughter recently turned 5-years-old. She is the most amazing person I know. It’s so fantastic the way a child will change you. What’s better, is how a child can entertain you.

Isabella loves to sing. When she is not talking, laughing, eating, or sleeping, she is singing. She sings in the car, she sings while she plays with her toys, she sings while she plays video games, she sings all the time, I think you get the point. The greatest thing about this is that she is into the same music I am. Bella doesn’t just rock out to Disney tunes or something she heard on Spongebob Squarepants; her internal playlist is constantly updated with the latest hits and even some obscure music from the past. The other day, for example, I heard her singing something that sounded very familiar. I asked what it was and she replied, simply, “Radioactive.” I started laughing, because I don’t even know all of the words to that song, but she apparently had it stuck in her head.

*Listen to Radioactive by Imagine Dragons HERE

Bella is a wonder to travel with. We usually have no problems when it comes to music in the car. Most of the songs I play, she will sing along with and dance to. But on our way back home from Berea, the other day, we had been playing songs that she liked the entire way, and when we got close to home, I turned on a song I hadn’t listened to in a while: “Learn to Fly – Foo Fighters”. She was NOT happy. I knew she had heard the song before, and it’s obviously a good one, therefore I thought she should like it, but she covered her ears and said, “I just don’t want to listen to a BOY song!” My fiancé and I both found this very funny, considering that most of the songs we had listened to were, in fact, boy songs; all of which she had enjoyed thoroughly. We came to the conclusion that, in her aggravation, she used the first excuse that popped into her head to get us to turn the song off. We didn’t. I started singing and dancing to it, and she soon followed.

*Listen to Learn to Fly by Foo Fighters HERE

When Bella was a baby, I loved to listen to ABBA. Dancing Queen and Money Money Money are a couple of my favorites from ABBA. Bella still loves all ABBA songs, to this day. Anyways, when she was a baby, she would stand in her crib by holding on to the rails. I would play songs by ABBA and she would dance. It was the most wonderful thing, watching her dance by bending her little, chubby legs and bobbing her head, all while holding on, because she couldn’t walk yet and would surely fall.

Bella’s favorite singer is currently Taylor Swift. Any time we get in the car, I immediately ask what she would like to listen to. Her reply is, generally, always the same, “Taylor Swift.” Any song I turn on by Taylor Swift, she knows every word to. She is starting to catch on to the pitch at which Taylor is singing to. Bella now knows when to make her voice higher and when to make it lower in a song. It’s so fun listening to her. When she is singing, I wish I could just turn the music all the way down and listen to her sing, but obviously I can’t do that because she would #1 stop singing and #2 be mad that I turned the music off.