Let's Trade Butts!

    Today's Song To Chew from my Fan Club Favorites album, has been a big hit in junior high schools all across this country!  It's called LET'S TRADE BUTTS, so of course, it's humorous. When teens are asked about their bodies, they often express self-criticism, and strong feelings of inadequacy, jealousy and shame.  Our adolescent years are difficult because our bodies AND our role in society are changing.  As teens we often want to look like someone else.  We want some body part to be bigger or smaller.  We know our life would be better we were taller or thinner or our hair was a different color or length or texture.  Our appearance seems to be the ticket to acceptance from our peers.  So I figured, "Why not just trade body parts with our friends?  They might want something we have, and then everybody wins, right?!  Yet beneath the humor of this song, lurks the painful feeling for some of us, that if we're just ourselves, we're "never enough", and then the grass always look greener when we look in other people's yards, or at their bodies, or their lives.  And that's a recipe for painful depression, and as the song says "If you don't like your own, you're nuts!"  We don't have a music video for this one yet, so if you're inspired by the topic, please feel free to make one!  You have my official permission to put it up on YouTube!  And let your friends know about this podcast.  It's free!  I'm Peter Alsop. See you next week with another Song To Chew!* Subscribe to Songs To Chew podcast ~ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/peter-alsops-songs-to-chew/id1446179156 * CAMPING WITH DADS - my newest album! ~ https://www.amazon.com/Camping-Dads-Peter-Alsop/dp/B08CS871QW/ref=sr_1_1* E-mail/ Website ~ [email protected]  ~ https://www.peteralsop.com * www.FaceBook.com/WeLikePeterAlsop * Youtube.com/peteralsop ~ videos* Patreon.com/peteralsop ~ support my music, podcast & other artistic endeavors* CDs & downloads ~ http://www.peteralsop.com/music  Get full access to Peter Alsop’s Substack at peteralsop.substack.com/subscribe