This episode of All Songs Considered comes to you from the NPR Music Podcast. You're home for the best new songs of the week, interviews, whatever else we've got rolling around in our music brains, including Alt Latino every Wednesday. And then, of course, we have New Music Friday to close out every week. We've got Mother's Day coming up. It is May 10th this year.

So that got us just thinking about our moms and all the things that we got and learned from them,

including music. So we asked listeners to tell us all about a song that reminds them of their mom,

maybe one that their mom played for them or sang all

the time. It's a question we've asked a handful of times over the years, and we always love

hearing what our listeners have to share. We were absolutely inundated with song picks and stories

this time. In fact, the song that we're listening to right now playing in the

background, this is Hogi Carmichael's Stardust. It was just one of the tracks that people

mentioned. And it's a beautiful song, so I wanted to play it. I am here with MPR Music's METRA

Arthur. Hey, Maitra. Hey, Robin. I think this is a good one for you because I know you're close to

your family. I know you love your mom. Yes. And I know music's important to you. So I thought of you and I thought, oh, we should totally have this conversation. So what we're going to do is we're just going to share some of the stories and songs that we got from listeners. People wrote in. They also recorded voice memos and they sent those in. And

we're only going to get to a fraction of what people submitted. We also have our own picks that

we're going to share. But Mieter, why don't you start us off with one of the voice memos we got?

Yeah. So this first voice memo we have comes from Grace, a listener out in Seattle, Washington.

We'll let her tell you a little bit more, but the song that she picked is Christina Aguilera's

beautiful. When I was in middle school, the song came on the radio while we were driving.

My mom turned it up and started singing. This surprised me because I wouldn't classify my mom as a

Christina Aguilera fan.

In fact, she was usually turning down her music because she didn't like the lyrics. I remember

looking over at her and noticing that she was tearing up. I asked her why, and she said that she

hadn't been feeling beautiful lately. This was around the time she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer.

She was going through chemotherapy and had lost her hair.

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