My son used to watch the Hannah Montana TV show sometimes. I mentioned not long ago that Hannah’s dad on the show, before he became a television actor, was a country western singer. The Child studied me, as if trying to figure out if I was pulling his leg or not.
“What?” I said. “He was a singer. Billy Ray Cyrus was his name.”
He thought I was kidding. I had to convince him that before that man was Miley’s dad, he was famous in his own right. Sometimes reviled and ridiculed (not unlike Miley) but still: famous.
I pulled up the YouTube video of Achy Breaky Heart.
The Child looked bewildered at first: Who is this person, he had to have been thinking. There stood Billy Ray in all his Kentucky waterfall-ed glory singing his little achy breaky heart out.“That’s him. Same guy,” I said. “Believe it or not , he had a life before Hannah Montana.”
It’s funny. Billy Ray Cyrus was practically a punch line to a 1990s country and western joke, whereas to my son, he was the actor who played Hannah Montana’s dad on the Disney channel. Our worlds are colliding.
6 comments:
Just think, Keetha, that The Child may never know who The Beatles were! ;)
ROFL! Yup yup. Being from Kentucky, I bought right into the Billy Ray craze. I had the neon sweatshirt that said "Achey Breaky" and had a broken heart. I knew all the movies to the line-dance and did them by a swimming pool, finishing with a coordinated fall into the shallow end.
Direct quote of Aint Daisy Ducasse: "I Luh me some Bee-Ray."
And you must admit---he was Achy-Heart PRETTY sometimes.
LOL...U R so old, ma.
David and I went to see Billy Ray after all the Achy Brakey craze was kinda over....and I made him get up and dance with me when he sang...."She's not crying anymore." Yep we danced in the audience. It was kinda of bucket list moment. I loved that song......
are you old enought yet to be somebody's grandma? and you been writin' when I wasn't lookin'
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