Comments on: Song Content on Kidz Bop

By: smooshpopper

smooshpopper — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 23:18:35 +0000

I hate, hate, HATE Kidz bop. And I’m a twelve-year-old girl. In fact, my favorite band is Slim Cessna’s Auto Club. Ever herd of it? I didn’t think so. Wonderful, that’s what they are.

By: skittle tits

skittle tits — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 23:01:04 +0000

WIN!

By: nicholas

nicholas — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 16:30:51 +0000

i do not know how to make a kidz bop cd

By: =P

=P — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 06:49:03 +0000

It would actually be 24/7/52-ish because there’s not 365 weeks in a year :3 (24 hours a day, seven days a week, 52 weeks a year)

but I still like your idea!

By: zim=love

zim=love — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 23:55:22 +0000

rofl

By: katya514

katya514 — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:07:22 +0000

*Thank you all*. I’m just delighted not to be the only person looking at the song list on the back of a KidzBop CD and thinking, “You. Must. Be. Kidding. Me.”

By: Alayna

Alayna — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:50:05 +0000

When I was younger, I didn’t have alot of cds or anything, but my parents bought me KidsBop. Then they started listening to it and wouldn’t let me listen to “Underneath It All” by No Doubt. I guess they took it badly.
XD
Good times.

By: omgcheez

omgcheez — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 18:00:13 +0000

It’s better they don’t understand it…
Once they do, they won’t be able to enjoy it like they used to.

By: Tsuki

Tsuki — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 04:30:29 +0000

Something about 9-year-olds singing Green Day’s “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” creeps me out.

I WALK A LONELY ROAD…

By: A Noun

A Noun — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:54:52 +0000

We’ll make them listen to their own CDs 24/7/365 with tone deaf children singing along in the back seat and getting most of the sanitized words wrong anyway.

By: jjmblue7

jjmblue7 — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 08:23:00 +0000

I love how when I was a kid and got my first casette tape, “Dookie” by Green Day, my oarents had no problem when I sang the inapprpriate lyrics that weren’t swears I already knew. Now that I understand the lyrics, “I went to a whore./He said my life’s a bore,” gets me lectured as full-grown adult.

By: Jadeder

Jadeder — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:54:26 +0000

*scratches head* da heck is “Kidz Bop”?? is that old school slang for music that kids listen to or am i missing something?

By: modem

modem — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 10:03:56 +0000

Its really a awesome video and i am go with the green.. Its such a great video i like the concept of the video..

By: Isildo

Isildo — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 07:22:33 +0000

EPIC

By: Sorcha

Sorcha — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 03:24:44 +0000

Oh, and “Follow Me” by Uncle Cracker, where a guy is singing to the woman who’s cheating on her husband with him.

I should stop now.

By: Sorcha

Sorcha — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 03:23:53 +0000

The one that got me was “Hey Ya.” Did they, I wondered, leave in the line about “I don’t want to meet your mama, I just want to make you come-a?”

By: Dfrtbx

Dfrtbx — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 02:11:20 +0000

i.e. != e.g.

i.e. = id est (that is)

e.g. = exempli gratia (for example)

get it right

By: eedev

eedev — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 01:17:27 +0000

Definitely more orange than red.

By: moi

moi — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:02:13 +0000

I’m doing a KidzBop parody with my sister-we’re doing ‘I Like You So Much Better When You’re Naked’ and other songs like that.

By: Nobrainer

Nobrainer — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 20:27:19 +0000

exactly!!!! wth is wrong with parents who’d let their kids sing these!

By: Nobrainer

Nobrainer — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 20:25:16 +0000

FINALLY someone points out the fact that just because kids sing it, doesn’t make it appropriate for kids…

By: JC

JC — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 20:15:17 +0000

I would just make a solid circle of one color that says “crap” in the center.

By: Devylan

Devylan — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 20:11:10 +0000

That would be before Kidz Bop was even thought of.

By: dissimilitude

dissimilitude — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 17:41:09 +0000

And make them listen to their own cds.

By: Jessi

Jessi — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 09:02:50 +0000

No, no – Bob Marley, jeesh!

By: Rohammad

Rohammad — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 08:02:59 +0000

Hooray for learning!!!

By: Purrzephone

Purrzephone — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 07:01:33 +0000

The one that knocked me over was Bowling for Soup’s ‘1985′, with such child-friendly lyrics as ‘One Prozac a day’ and ‘… shake her ass on the hood of Whitesnake’s car’. That’s something I’d love to hear kids singing along to – a song about a woman’s mid-life crisis & her disillusionment with her soccer-mom lifestyle.

By: Grammarian

Grammarian — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 06:06:56 +0000

That’s pretty awesome, actually. Though the name may be misleading, I’m a pure mathematics major I’m also a Latin minor, which is the main reason I get so hung up on people mixing up the two abbreviations.

Again, though – nice graph! So sad, yet so true…

By: kszczepanowski

kszczepanowski — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 04:31:35 +0000

Oh, wow. I’ve been using it wrong for years then. I’m an actuarial mathematics major, so I admit I am lacking in the proper grammar category.
But that’s pretty interesting; I’ll have to remember that!

By: Grammarian

Grammarian — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 03:50:30 +0000

This graph is so incredibly true.

However, I’m miffed about the misuse of “i.e.”, so here’s a grammar lesson for you:

i.e. stands for the Latin “id est”, meaning “that is”. It should be used for purposes of clarification or specification.

e.g. stands for the Latin “exempli gratia”, meaning “for the sake of example”. It should thus be used when listing an example, as in this graph.

Thank you.

By: Bueller

Bueller — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 03:07:31 +0000

So, Jimi Hendrix then?

By: rose

rose — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 01:54:43 +0000

They are missing the songs that deal with one’s past that are compleatly silly for a kid to sing. My kid got some of the Happy Meal ones, and there are all these songs about adults looking back on when they were young.

By: whitey138

whitey138 — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:09:31 +0000

i third that…would have worked out a lot better especially with the 2 sections having to do with songs MEANT for kids and the songs APPROPRIATE for kids.

By: Kit

Kit — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 23:44:21 +0000

I agree. Then the whole thing could be surrounded by “EVIL”.

By: MAINEiac

MAINEiac — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 23:11:09 +0000

I certainly am.

By: Kendra

Kendra — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 22:11:49 +0000

Finally i am so glad someone pointed this out..I thought i was the only one who felt these songs were soo inappropriate for kids.Some are ok but others not at all.

By: penguin_man

penguin_man — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 21:58:17 +0000

I swear half the songs that have strong emotion in them loose all of it when played live.

They just look too happy on stage.

By: Nash

Nash — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 20:28:01 +0000

I can’t really understand/relate to most songs about psychological or emotional pain, so it’s not just a matter of being a kid. Sure, kids probably are less likely to have experienced such things, but it’s not like being an adult automatically means psychological and emotional issues. Fortunately.

By: Woodstock

Woodstock — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 20:16:20 +0000

Probably nothing more than the unspeakable Disney channel “pop stars LIKEOMG.”

Whoever thought this cold-blooded parketing scheme would work should be run over very slowly with a truck full of screaming soccer moms. Know how to get kids to love and appreciate music? GIVE THEM *GOOD* MUSIC. Not this pathetic excuse for a cacophony of squealing voices.

By: Woodstock

Woodstock — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 20:13:13 +0000

And then we’ll throw eggs at them.

By: Me

Me — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 20:07:45 +0000

Maybe it was back when popular music was good.

By: will

will — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 19:42:34 +0000

WTH “deep” kids bop songs are you talking about? Boom boom pow? Circus? Though I will admit, the emotional and physiological concepts brought up in Hoedown Throwdown are difficult to wrap my mind around.

By: Rohvannyn

Rohvannyn — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 19:06:36 +0000

Very true! Anybody up for changing that? It’s about time.

By: JJ Fad

JJ Fad — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 18:51:59 +0000

Didn’t you know? We only blame the parents in the rare case that said parents genuinely tried everything they could, and sincerely did their best to raise a well-balanced, disciplined child, and the kid still turned out to be a psychotic nut-job unfit for assimilation into the general populace.

By: RickieFromFacebook

RickieFromFacebook — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 18:46:34 +0000

isn’t it nice that we blame everyone but the parents?

By: Kidz Bop Sucks

Kidz Bop Sucks — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 17:48:51 +0000

I didn’t even want Kidz Bop when I was a kid. It’s probably just aunts and uncles who have no idea what to get a 10 year old for their birthday.

By: Reika - If I'm commenting, it'll most likely piss you off, and piss is really hard to clean up on carpets, so please try to restrain yourself

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 17:30:17 +0000

The orange should be bigger.

By: Reika - If I'm commenting, it'll most likely piss you off, and piss is really hard to clean up on carpets, so please try to restrain yourself

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 17:29:43 +0000

“No modern songs fall into the red category.”

….you don’t listen to much music, do you?

By: Huh?

Huh? — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 17:16:49 +0000

How does that work? When kids turn 8, then they magically gain a wealth of experience pertaining to how crappy life can be? I know some 20-year-olds who don’t understand emotionally mature lyrics…I don’t know any 8, 9, 10, 11, 12-year-olds who do…

Kids have the appearance of maturity these days because they can use “adult language.” It doesn’t mean they have a more mature perspective on life…

How did you come up with 7 anyway?

By: Emily

Emily — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 17:02:06 +0000

You would be surprised what kids actually know these days, unless they are 7 or under then they wouldn’t know.