Multitasking may be my new favorite topic. Ok, maybe it’s my second favorite, because piracy is still on my mind.

On occasion I actually listen while I sing. I don’t mean listening to the sound of my own voice (boo). I mean really listening to the song lyrics. Given my affinity for 1980’s cheesy love songs, I frequently belt out these ballads as I drive. I’ve heard most of these songs hundreds of times. And due to the fact that you can’t put too much thought into a cheesy love song I rarely think about the lyrics or the “storyline”.

Doing two things at once can be productive and sometimes insightful. And last week my insight came via one of these singing sessions. I was driving and I heard a classic: Heart's “All I wanna do is make love to you”. I won’t get into the morality of it all, but suffice it to say a woman’s one night stand leaves her with child and when she runs into the baby daddy at future date she's got some explaining to do. She tells him that she’s in love with someone else, but that there was one thing that her true love couldn’t give her. Here’s where the insight comes in…. I realized that this is a song (at least partially) about infertility. Her true love couldn’t have children! Can you believe it? How many other songs about infertility are out there? I want to know.

Fascinating in a who-in-the-world-cares sort of way!

A few years ago this same multitasking brought me to the realization that “The Gambler” died at the end of the song! Who knew? I was shocked.