The Key to Shaping a Young Girl's Life

(Nov 22, 2005)

On Friday I saw that there were $35 tickets still available for the Gwen Stafani concert last night at the Key. So naturally, I bought the $80 ones. I figured, if I was gonna do a show like that, I'd do it up right. We had great seats, though, in the 115 section which was to the left of the stage. There was a little girl beside us who was there with her dad. She had to be only 9 or 10, almost the same age that I was when my mom took me to one of my first concerts, Madonna's True Blue. WOW! My mom said between that show and the George Michael's Faith concert a few months later, she's never heard little girls scream more in her life. What does seeing Madonna live on stage, or even idolizing Madonna, at the age of 11 do to young girls? Well, basically, it gave us the courage to be ourselves, without boundries. To challenge the rules that society has placed upon us and express ourselves in any way we want, be it in a career, through a creative outlet, or using our voices. The father who took his daughter to Gwen Stafani said to her, "That could be you up there someday". The truth is, thanks to the gift that he's given her, it already is.