Once upon a time, there lived a woman named Jennifer Thigpen and her 2 children Timothy and Jessie; they were twins. Timothy was the most attractive member of the family to everyone who knew the family.
Timothy loved music. Until he was 17 years old he had no easy way to tell what his favorite kind of music was. But one day, he found out that female singers are nice and pleasing.
During Timothy's life as a 20-something, his mother made him a special playlist with many female singers. Kimberly, Timothy's wife, thinks Timothy is very young at heart because of this.
The playlist had female singes of different decades and formats. A special note was that it was Timothy's only; no one else's. Songs of the 1954-2009 interval can be any format; songs of 2010 or later must be country music.
One day, it was 2015 (the year of Timothy's 30th birthday.) By then he was married for nearly a year and was really happy.
By then Timothy wanted to get listening to music every day into his routine, and so he did a good job. One important argument to avoid was that Timothy dislikes a song because the most well-known version of the song has a male singer. An example is "You're the One". The most well-known version to most Americans was by a male singing group called The Vogues; the most well-known version to the British was by a female singer named Petula Clark. Timothy, despite being from the United States, listens to Petula Clark's version.
In 2017, Timothy and Kimberly had a son named Timothy Thigpen Junior, who always thought the music was sweet and loveable.
Not long after this baby was born, Timothy and Kimberly got a new part of their routine. Every other Wednesday they had to listen to rap music to celebrate a game night; this is the like of most of the people who celebrate game night.
Sometimes Timothy calls songs by special titles to distinguish them from other songs. For example, he knows 2 songs titled "Breathe". Faith Hill's song Timothy refers to as "I Can Feel You Breathe" and Michelle Branch's song he refers to as "If I Just Breathe".
One day in late 2017, Timothy's father Thomas learned that Shania Twain is a nice singer Timothy himself loves. Thomas introduced Timothy to a new song, "Life's About to Get Good". Timothy said, "That's nothing like the nice version of Shania Twain that I love; that's a gravelly voice." Timothy understood this as meaning that Shania Twain has a new era of her life as a singer. Jennifer (Timothy's mother) understood it correctly, and for the day after Christmas she made a special playlist of classic Shania Twain songs for him to listen to to celebrate his love of the old version of Shania Twain.
Timothy loves to classify the songs he knows by the singer. To him, "Best Days of Your Life" is a Kellie Pickler song, not a Taylor Swift song. But others, such as his cousin Kirk, classify songs by their composer; to them, "Best Days of Your Life" is a Taylor Swift song.
Timothy always calls the female singers by the names the public knows them as, for example, he calls Debby Boone Debby Boone. But as an interesting way of having fun with Timothy, someone named Lowenstein (when he interacts with Timothy) refers to female singers with a married last name that is not used professionally; for example he calls Debby Boone Debby Ferrer. Lowenstein always wants Timothy to laugh at these statements, but Timothy himself gets mad.
One day, Timothy was talking with a man named Amos. Amos told Timothy, "I understand that Shania Twain's singing voice is not as sweet as it used to be, but it's still sweet." Amos wanted Timothy to be more flexible. Timothy responded by saying, "Shania Twain, between 1993 and 2005, was a sweet singer who I'll always love the songs of from that era." But Amos said, "Even for her 2017 songs she's still head and shoulders better than Janis Joplin or Tina Turner. You must remember, it is important that you're an adult, and there's no requirement that a singing voice that you love reminds you of the personality of a comforting teacher of a child aged 3 to 8 years."
One new song Timothy loves is Miranda Lambert's "The House That Built Me". There are a number of people he talks about this with. For people such as Emily Smith, Katherine Stein, and Meredith Reda; the response is "I'm glad you like this nice singer." But there are other people; such as James, Kon, and Eli; who get a different response. Whenever Timothy talks about this song with James, Kon, or Eli; he gets this response: "Try Tanya Tucker's cover." Timothy gets very unhappy when he hears this. Sometimes one of these guys responds by asking Timothy "How old is Tanya Tucker as of mid-2019??" Timothy uses the rule he learned as a little kid what defines one's age. Subtract your birth year from the current year and then subtract 1 if your birthday hasn't occurred. Timothy says, "60". But then James/Kon/Eli says, "No, 39. Tanya Tucker is special. Her age is 39 for every birthday starting in 1997 and continuing as long as she's alive." This was not at all funny to Timothy because he is too literal at interpreting statements like these. But the key is that these guys encourage Timothy to laugh as these statements because they intend for Timothy to laugh as if it were funny to him.
One day, in 2021, Timothy gets a big surprise. He does research on a singer named Jadyn Rylee. For a while, all the songs he learns by this singer are covers of other people's songs. But eventually Timothy learns a song by this singer that features a duet with a male singer named Brayden Ryle, and Timothy especially loves the parts by Brayden Ryle. Timothy himself was happy because he learned to be more flexible.