Now I’m like everyone else. I go to You Tube for laughs but sometimes for information. So now I’m at the video and it’s called “Chocolate Rain”. Upon closer examination, I was beginning to think that it was dubbed or something. And what was with the mouth thing and leaving the mic to breathe in? Now I’m no musician and have no musical training, but I thought, “If this is real, does he have asthma? Is this why he needs to ** move away from the mic to breathe in**?” Now I was captivated – how courageous! I spent the next three weeks researching Tay Zonday. Did I mention that “Chocolate Rain” is over four minutes long, repetitive, catchy, haunting, and sticks to your brain cells while you are asleep? I couldn’t stop listening to it. I listened for days, causing friends and family to think I had contracted “Chocolate Rain” fever. I really started to appreciate his diverse music styles. I discovered a lot. I’m new at all of this alter-ego thing so I settled on referring to him as Tay Zonday instead of his given name. I realized that this was a new chapter in this guy’s life. For all intents and purposes as of the day his web page went up – he was Tay Zonday. He picked that name because it had no Google hits at all. It’s made up. Today, the hits returns in the hundreds of thousands. I’ve never liked an artist’s work this much since way back when. What was it like for those three weeks of research? “Internet Dream” for sure. Family and friends thought I needed to eat and sleep more and “shut up” about Tay Zonday. Tay this and Tay that. My son saw his videos so much that he asked me if Tay was my brother.
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