Which is why I can't stand most pop music these days. I turned off the popular music station back when that 'disco stick' song was out, and the other one about 'you spin my head 'round when you go down'... the underlying message I think is worse than a single curse word.
Yeah, count me as way more uncomfortable with letting the kids hear the content of something like "Bust a Move" on their Glee soundtrack (which so far has sailed over their heads, but someday soon it won't) than any curse word. Although I still hate the fact that they hear women called "bitch" on Survivor with regularity.
Even so, when we're listening to the iPod in the car, I tend to dump the volume when I know there's an f-bomb coming up - my 10-year-old knows all the curse words, but that doesn't mean the 7-year-old needs to yet. My no-Prince, no-Phair playlist helps.
Frankly, I don't even mind them hearing songs that are about sex, as long as it's not explicit. The kids will get it when they get it, no pun intended. If you took sex out of music, music would mostly suck. Song about two people having consensual sex, nothing inherently wrong with that. Song about passing women around backstage, don't need my kids to hear that.
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Nephew #1: You know Eric B. and Rakim?
ReplyDeleteMe: What??
Nephew #1: They make good music.
Nephew #2: I can rap.
My brother introduced his kids to hip hop ages ago - which makes for some funny little kids walking around freestylin'.
i think hip hop only took off in the white community because baby boomer parents pushed '60s rock and roll on their kids.
ReplyDeleteAlso, "It's Tricky." Or, as I taught my niece to say when she was very little, "Twa-twa-twa-twicky, twicky, twicky!"
ReplyDelete"these girls are really sleazy/all they say is please me"
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"this girl named Carol follows Darryl every gig we play/Then D dissed her and dismissed her/now she's jockin' Jay"
Frankly, I'd rather (and do) have my kids listening to curse words. If someone learns to say "fuck," all they've learned is to say "fuck."
How about Slick Rick's "A Children's Story" ?
ReplyDeleteAgree completely, isaac.
ReplyDeleteWhich is why I can't stand most pop music these days. I turned off the popular music station back when that 'disco stick' song was out, and the other one about 'you spin my head 'round when you go down'... the underlying message I think is worse than a single curse word.
Yeah, count me as way more uncomfortable with letting the kids hear the content of something like "Bust a Move" on their Glee soundtrack (which so far has sailed over their heads, but someday soon it won't) than any curse word. Although I still hate the fact that they hear women called "bitch" on Survivor with regularity.
ReplyDeleteEven so, when we're listening to the iPod in the car, I tend to dump the volume when I know there's an f-bomb coming up - my 10-year-old knows all the curse words, but that doesn't mean the 7-year-old needs to yet. My no-Prince, no-Phair playlist helps.
If you want a story with a moral, there's always Slick Rick's "Children's Story."
ReplyDeleteThis ain't funny so don't ya dare laugh
Just another case about the wrong path
Straight n narrow or yo soul gets cast.
Even "My Adidas" advocates pimp stomping and perpetrator slaying.
ReplyDeleteFrankly, I don't even mind them hearing songs that are about sex, as long as it's not explicit. The kids will get it when they get it, no pun intended. If you took sex out of music, music would mostly suck. Song about two people having consensual sex, nothing inherently wrong with that. Song about passing women around backstage, don't need my kids to hear that.
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