Poor little Bessie may soon starve and die

Who is the audience for a version of "Somewhere Out There" sung by a little blind girl named Courtney on her album "Perfect in His Eyes"? Also, what meaning does a particular audience lend to a song like this?
Louis thinks maybe evangelical suburban soccer moms, but I think maybe widows (also evangelical) with lots of angel figurines and commemorative plates. Or, I suppose, another audience would be people such as me and Louis who appreciate these things in an ironic way or an academic way. What we both found surprising was that many members of the grad seminar liked it from the standpoint that she has a really lovely voice for little girl, and, being as many of them are music educators returning to school for their masters degrees, they wish their students could sing like that.
It also reminded me of a recording of the temperance movement era song "Father's a Drunkard and Mother is Dead" by Mrs. E.A. Parkhurst (or something similar) that I first heard at the beginning of last summer.

rokenroleg

It's my favorite Russian's birthday today.

rock and roll music

Pop music is weird because it's about itself. How many rock songs are about how great rock music is? Or about being in a band, or playing the guitar or whatever. I wonder if this phenomenon is specific to pop music. I'm sure that there are exceptions, but genres like musical theatre or opera don't seem to like to call attention to the fact that they are singing (with exceptions like that fabulous episode of Buffy which is a great example of postmodernism's willingness to point out its medium), nor do "serious" art songs. To my knowledge, anyway.