Openly I admit the most difficult task presented would to sing our National Anthem in public without staring at the printed poetry on a karaoke screen. I have never delivered a lecture at Appalachian University, school of broadcasting, DARE Graduation, industrial motivation lecture or wedding ceremony without having the map near my peripheral vision.
I don’t do a radio show without having larger than life call letters of the station taped to the control board. Embarrassingly I’ll tell a visitor in the studio, “The larger and darker the letters are the easier it is for me to sell the emotion.” Truthfully I fear the fear, right in the middle of a brilliant connection between a busy listener feverishly fighting to get home and a story about Steve Perry the last thing you need me to do is say, “Here’s Oh Sherrie on Country 910 KOYN.” (The station I worked for in 1979)
Two reactions instantly consumed my IKEA Swedish Meatball eating Super Bowl moment when Christina Aguilera stepped off the stage; she’s just as human as 99.8% of the beer guzzling, jersey wearing, team supporting people watching and more importantly she didn’t stop. Billions of viewers and she displayed what Corporate America hasn’t been able to do for the past three years…she ran into a little bit of trouble and kept going whereas big business has fired everybody but themselves.
The problem with this country isn’t the people but rather leaders that search hourly for reasons to halt progress. Christina was completely focused on there being an end result and delivered it without having to seek out a trillion dollar loan from Britney Spears or Cher.
Aguilera displayed real leadership. She didn’t quit!
A recent news report recently exposed a hard to digest set of numbers that unveiled over 50% of this countries unemployed women over the age of fifty remain jobless. The new sixty may look like the new thirty but Corporate America is still treating one of the hardest working generations in American history as being retirement home ready.
Women and men aren’t trained to stop in this country just decision makers.
I’m completely comfortable when admitting that Christina’s Super Bowl appearance played a major role in the rebirth of this nation. Sadly it’s become the butt of every television and radio show which does nothing but suck the common person in like a stale TMZ rerun that you can’t find the energy to tune out of.
I don’t care how bad your day is, how evil the moment has made you feel, how eerie it seems to constantly drop the ball; the biggest and best decision you can ever make is to keep moving forward. The group Journey says it best, “Don’t stop believing.” Did they say take a break half way through or figure out a way to dive out of work for the day?
Don’t stop believing means don’t stop…
I will always believe in your first…
arroecollins@clearchannel.com
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