Good
Tuesday to ya friend? Need more fun in your life? I suspect everyone
does! Well, you've come to the right place to discover how music,
ministry and The Message can all combine to make your life more fun!!!
It's Tuesday's Musical Notes coming to you live, or email delayed, from
the palatial second story offices of The Notes headquarters. Where we boldly proclaim..."This "ain't no disco, and it ain't no country club either", it's Tuesday's Musical Notes!!!
There
is a misconception in our world that we should all be happy most of the
time. This is a confusing message in the fact that it is totally not
impossible to ever achieve. There are days that will be littered with
challenges. You say you've experienced them? So have I. The challenge
lies in what we do, how we act, and the way we handle ourselves when
our lives seem to be in "that" moment, facing yet another "brace for
impact" time in our lives. In these instances we find it very difficult
to be happy. In reality, at those junctures in our lives we may want
to step on down to the Tuesday Night Music Club and join the sing
along with Sheryl and William or Bill, maybe Billy or Mac or
Buddy...'cause all we wanna do is have some fun...
Since
the mid 80's the music industry has known of the
singer/songwriter/actess Sheryl Crow. She was a backup singer for music
icons Tina Turner, Bob Dylan, Stevie Nicks, and Don Henley. But it
wasn't until 1994 as a part of consortia of artists called the Tuesday
Night Music Club, that she became known by the world outside of the
music universe. She skyrocketed to fame with the #2 cut, "All I Wanna
Do", from her 1993 solo album named for the aforementioned creative
collective that got together on the ABSOLUTE best day of the week,
Tuesday. The song was taken from American poet Wyn Cooper's "Fun" (The Country of Here Below) and stayed at its #2 position for 6 weeks.
Based on the strength of "All I Wanna Do", Tuesday Night Music Club would catapult to #3 on the Billboard 200
chart. At the 1995 Grammys "All I Wanna Do" was nominated for 3 awards
(winning for Record of the Year and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance)
and it garnered Sheryl Crow a Best New Artist win. Her music would
continue to resonate with fans around the world as she would see an
additional 6 Grammy wins added to her accolades over the years.
While
mostly known as a pop artist, Crow's most recent album was 2013's
country flavored Feels Like Home, her 9th top 10 album. It debuted at #7 on the Billboard 200. In 2014, she was one of the opening acts for George Strait's The Cowboy
Rides Away tour, expanding her fan base to Country/Western
listeners.
The
sentiment expressed in "All I Wanna Do" is one that most of us
experience. We get so frustrated or bored with the tedium that can be
our formulaic lives, that we want something to come along and shake us
up a bit. The difficulty comes when that shaking it up isn't good for
us, even though at the time it may seem fun.
Christianity has
gotten an unfair reputation of being a religion that doesn't promote
fun. God is often seen as some cosmic killjoy that wants to keep his
thumb on us and keep us from having any "fun". Christianity is viewed by
many as being a religion of "dont's". This is far from being the
case. Christian musician Keith Green put this ideology of "dont's" into
perspective once by saying, "If your busy doing all the do's in the
Bible, you won't have time to do any of the dont's."
Dictionary.com
defines fun as "something that provides mirth or amusement". That
seems like it would encompass many things that we can experience in our
lives. It also seems to be a definition without boundaries. "Fun" can
be good things or bad things, much is left up to the person who is
attempting to have fun. On one extreme it may seem fun to sit on a
mountainside and contemplate the extremities of the universe (let's be
clear...this is an extreme case, not one suggested by Tuesday's Musical
Notes). On the other hand, to a serial killer, taking another person's
life in the most cruel way possible can be construed to that person as
fun (ditto the previous disclaimer). Your definition of fun will be
defined by the view you have of the world.
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