My four year old son requests songs off of this CD every time we are in the car. Last winter we introduced him to music videos, well his older brother was instrumental in this as well as he was already looking videos up on the Internet. My wife and I were already #ghost fans and had seen them live the previous year. Upon hearing about a video for their new single "cirice" we watched it as a family. It really struck a chord with the middle child, the video features a child in Papa Emeritus garb leading the band at a talent show. Kind of an over used concept but a striking video and great song none the less. Our little guy wanted to watch it over and over again and began requesting the song in the car: "play rock and roll ghost dad!" He quickly figured out how to use the YouTube app on our t.v. (despite not being able to read which shows how nefariously effective the design of these addictive social and media devices are) and found more Ghost videos (and his other two favorites: Gorillaz and Katy Perry, whom he adorably calls "Kerry Perry") He will occasionally ask to watch videos and I hope it's the lead off to a love of music. I speculate sometimes that Ghost might be his Kiss. The make-up clad rockers who started me on my path to fandom. Only time will tell.
My wife and I caught the band in their last tour and bought the boys some Nameless Ghouls masks to which we received a pouty "but I wanna be Papa"
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