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Page A-4 - Shelton-Mason County Journal- Thursday, Sept. 12, 2019
THESE TIMES
JOURNAL EDITORIAL
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The boy and I had a chat
about music the other day
after school.
"The representation of our
age in music is variety," our
15-year-old boy, Ryan, told me.
"Here's something I agree with:
We have more musicians and
fewer genres now. Rock, coun-
try, funk. electronica,
rap you can find sev-
eral musical genres in a
single musician today.
For instance, Deca is
funk, gospel and rap.
Shiro is electronic, piano
and 1920s style. Baby no
money is pop, rap and
electronica. Yoalisten
He talked too about the lyrics~ helton School Districtother staff bought into the a ship or a head football
from the decade. ,~ Superintendent Alex district's "Shelton Proud, coach, his calm and cal-
"Serious topics were pre- ~ Apostle couldn t stop Shelton Now" and "Gradu-culated approach inspires
sented in a light-hearted way," talking about janitors dur- ation Matters Shelton" confidence among the
Ryan said. "Like, I didn't know ing last month's Sheltonmantras, staff he leads. During last
'Roxanne' was about a prostitute School Board meeting. The superintendent month's school board meet-
until I was in seventh grade -Thirty minutes after always aimed high. Less ing, Apostle said he is the
they're really good at making naming and handing than two years into the job, most excited he's been in
lyricssound family-friendly." awards to each indi- Apostle helped the district more than 40 years in edu-
Clearly. He also notedvidual custodian in the dis- pass a $64.7 million bond. cation.
that it was common in trict during the meeting's That money, approved by We think that shows in
1980ssongs to interrupt opening minutes. Apostlevoters, went to all seven the staff, community mem-
the lyrics to squeeze in again brought up the staff schools in the district, but bers and students he inter-
drum or guitar solos, whose work often goes un- most notably helped pay acts with every day.
"Eighties music was recognized, for a brand new MountainIt's easy to talk about
really emotional music, If everybody in the dis-View Elementary School setting lofty goals. It's an-
I think. You had a lot trict worked as hard as the and major construction at other to accomplish them.
of different tones that custodial staff, the super- Shelton High School. TheCongratulations to
convey emotion~while intendenttold the group district alsoreconfigured Apostle and the~Shelton
to the musician now, not By KIRK today's music tends to
the genre." ERICSON startwith a tone and
Got that? The song of stick with it throughout
the summer, "Old Town the song A lot of music
Road," a number by Lil Nas X these days is all over the place.
that mixed rap and country- It doesn't have a set bass line,
western, illustrates the boy's a set melody section and an
point, ending, like a lot of'80s music
Ryan and many of his friends does."
are fans of bands that had their The discussion veered into
peaks in the 1980s, including whether he thought he was liv-
Hall and Oates, The Police and mg in a musically barren age.
the B-52s, and all those bands Essentially, no, the boy said,
were on heavy rotation in the because his generation has more
house during his childhood, choices in music -- and those
Perhaps hearing those groups" choices come at the right price,
as a child encoded his musi- too.
cal sense - us baby boomers do "i've never spent any money
insist on imposing our cultural on music," Ryan said. "I don't
tastes on trailing generations - know if it's morally wrong to
but Ryan knows his music. He listen to music that I didn't pay
can play the piano well enough for, but there are ads on Spotify
to make little old ladies sing and YouTube I put up with."
praises into his earsand clutch He likes contemporary musi-
their pearls, if they're wearing cians, including the French com-
any. He knows the language of poser Yann Tierson, and Deca,
music, too. a musician who performed in
So, Ryan, what's characteris- Seattle on Tuesday night.
tic about music from the 1980s? "Deca deals with major topics,
"The music tends to have a religious stuff," Ryan said.
consistently driving beat that Here are some lyrics from
switches between melodies," he Deca's song "Silverline":
said. " See it started with a bang
He started playing the song A solitary sun spot
"Maneater" from Hall and Oates As strange words echoed
over the wireless speaker, through the void like a gunshot
"It's kind of like writing be- One drop of blood became a
cause you start with a bass line, pomegranate seed
then add some twists, which in Grew into a tree with forbid-
this song is the saxophone and den fruit for me and Eve
a synthesizer," he said. "They The landlord took his keys
really exerted their voices then, and kicked us out the garden "
too - you can hear it especially The kids are all right, still.
in a song like 'Roxanne' (by The
Police). He's really pushing his Contact Kirk Ericson at kirk@
voice." masoncounty.com.
of school administrators,its grades, mo~dng ninth- School District for upgrad-
district staff and commu- graders from Oakland ing school facilities, but
nity members, the Shelton Bay Junior High School to thank you to voters for
School District would easi- Shelton High School - a agreeing to flip the bill.
ly meet Apostle's lofty high long-anticipated change With Apostle's mspl-
school graduation rate goal that begins Monday during ration, we're sure those
of 100% by 2022. the first day school, hard-working custodians
Since he was hired as Even the most ardent will have no problem keep-
the district's top admin- Shelton School District ing these new facilities in
istrator in 2015, Apostle naysayer has to admit tip-top shape while other
has been a cheerleader, Apostle united the com- district staffkeep our stu-
not a pencil pusher. School munity behind his vision, dents engaged, motivated
principals, teachers and Much like the captain ofand safe in their new digs.
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