Growing up my mom only got vhs tapes that were available at the local public library so everything we watched was a decade or so dated. The star studded “Free to be you and me” was one of our favorites. It was kind of like sesame street but nonchalantly slammed every stereotype in children’s literature out there at the time: : Mom’s a construction worker, lady-like girls are lame-o, boys can play with dolls cause they’ll learn to be dads, girls don’t have to get married, michael jackson as a kid singing about how he doesn’t have to change at all because he likes who he is. It’s a classic. I know every word to every song.
This short sketch above, “Brothers and Sisters’ by Voices of Harlem, was one my favorites and it’s one of those songs that’s constantly on repeat in my head. The playground they’re dancing in is right next to the MET in Manhattan. We loved to visit it growing up. Probably more than the museum.