No, I have no idea why my kids are all into Rock and Roll, Rap and Electronic music now. Damn kids these days.
Am I crazy or are the comments in this thread all about different ages? Well, I’ll defend the existence of children’s music.
Children’s music is great for teaching young children (under the age of 2) the basics of music. A clear melody (often in C major), simple rhythm, some basic song structure, rhyming lyrics, and lots and lots of repetition gets children listening and singing at an age before they can form coherent sentences. These are skills they learn to encourage not just later composition and performance of music, but also basic human functions like speaking and listening.
They’re doing it with their books, their TV shows, and their games, too. Developmentally appropriate material is important for learning that category of art or culture, and provides a basis to build on after that.
Getting told Linkin Park is old people music feels worse
Does Babymetal count as music for the babies?
I bop to Kidz Bop.
Only time I had “kid” music must have been when I was, like, a toddler. Because I don’t remember a single time getting in my mom’s car without Boyz II Men or something playing. I didn’t even get to suggest music to play until I was in college 😅
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It’ll make them better adjusted. Playing music specifically for children shelters them and is going to make them alienated from their average peer.
You just also have to teach them that in school (and later professional/work contexts) they keep their words clean for the puritans that walk amongst them.
My kids have an amazingly eclectic taste in music because (I’m convinced anyways) we never did the kid music thing.
My heart was about to burst with pride when my kids asked to add Meshuggah to their playlist.
My son’s favorite song when he was 5 was Walk by Pantera
my sister used to make me put on death metal on youtube but scroll down away from the cover art because it scared her. she was like 5 😂
Well my 3 year old always asks for Kraftwerk and my 5 year old likes the pumpkins (not my first choice billys voice sounds like a mentally handicapped kitten being drowned in engine oil).
That comparison sounds a little unfair to the kitten.
I could put on an Aerosmith record before I knew how to leave and my Disney VHS tapes in the VCR, of course then my older cousin brought over her Master of Puppets album and I fell in love with thrash. As she still likes to remind me, “I turned you into a metal head before you were out of diapers”. I still love the classics too BTW.
I love how, almost without exception, every parent of a single-digit-age kid’s so proud that their offspring enjoys the same music that they do. Things (generally) change DRASTICALLY shortly after they reach that second digit.
You are correct.
Mine are barely in the double digits but they still retain some of their old taste.
However, I am not so sure I should be proud that my 11 and 13 year old’s first choice, when they ride shotgun, is Eminem.
Just tell them that Eminem is more popular with old white people because his melanin levels are less threatening to their old people sensibilities
If your kids aren’t shouting “Oi, oi, oi, oi” to AC/DC’s TNT, are you even a real father?
Yes, Raffi made some fuckin bangers. Have you heard bananaphone?
it’s so sad the way that the phone rang and rang and rang and rang and rang and rang and rang and no one answered.
Kids in college, but Bananaphone still gets referenced semi-regularly in my household.
Honorable mention to Baby Beluga and Joshua Giraffe as well.
Raffi helped make this during COVID: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-tQjeT5bD6k
When my niece was born, she fell asleep to Slayer in the car. Now she’s 6 and know the Goreillaz catalogue better than I do, competes in Highland dancing, and is learning drums and violin.
Do people actually play kids music to kids? I thought that stuff was exclusively used for background noise in YouTube kids Elsa impregnation videos.
I just played the music I’ve always wanted to listen to. If there was bad words, I’d either turn down the volume at that point or skip that song.
My parents played fucking Shlock Rock cassettes in the car when we were kids.
Can you imagine my shock when I find out that Chumbawumba’s “Tubthumping” doesn’t start with “We’ll be praying… in the morning… in the evening…”
I’ve never heard anything about schlock rock. What a bizarre concept. I fully believed that you were messing with me until I heard “M-m-m-m-m-m-my menorah” to the tune of “my Sharona”
I’m glad I was able to enrich your day just a little bit.
My 7 year old was in a car pool to go to an after school activity. Each girl got to pick a song and apparently all but once picked a kids song. My daughter asked if they could play Green Day.
One of my aunts played Christian kids music until my cousins were like 16 and everyone was expected to sing along
Somehow, that’s actually much better. It looped back around from silly to amazing
I played Casper babypants for my kid when she was young. He was the singer of the presidents of the United States of America and it’s honestly just pusa music but a little more kiddie like. Absolute bangers plus my kid live pusa now.
I successfully used the Barenaked Ladies Snacktime! album to move one of my friend’s kids from kids music to folk rock to hard rock. She now occasionally drags me to big concerts and we got tattoos (not matching) at the same time for her very first tattoo. I’m her favorite uncle, even though she has two that are actually related and pretty good guys.
Sunrise, sunset.
Can confirm about the Caspar Babypants bangers, and would also like to add Secret Agent 23 Skidoo for totally amazing kidhop, his daughter even raps with him.
Yes. I’d rather my kids sing the abc’s rather than about bitches or their pussy and ass crack. Very little ‘adult’ music doesn’t have seriously adult overtones. Maybe 80’s rock with coke and pedophilia. Nah
How do you feel about necks and backs?
Very little
I think that depends quite a bit on what you listen to.
Give me some 80 rock bands that don’t talk about doing drugs or teenagers.
Lol that’s what I thought. You got nothing but down votes cause you know I’m right. Denial is a hell of a drug.
You got nothing but down votes cause you know I’m right. Denial is a hell of a drug.
I down voted and didn’t bother replying because your comment was too plainly stupid to merit followup, you absolute tool. Not only are there plenty of great songs from the 80s that aren’t about sex and drugs, but you also just proved my point by picking a specific sub genre and acting like it represents all of music.
Not every song is going to be a winner. But generally speaking:
- Heart
- Led Zeppelin (this one is more 70’s than 80’s, but I think my point stands)
- Huey Lewis and the News
- Bon Jovi
- Hall & Oates
- Journey
Just to name a few, all have plenty of songs without sex, drugs or violence.
If you sit down and listen to every album straight through, sure, you’ll probably find a song that talks about sex. Because humans have been singing about sex for as long as we’ve known how to sing. It’s not forbidden knowledge for teenagers, they’re allowed to know that it exists. Some genres go overboard with it - a lot of modern rap, for instance - but you’re essentially arguing that an entire decade’s worth of a genre of music is just all trash that only talks about sex and drugs. That’s just silly, and definitively untrue.
