No, I have no idea why my kids are all into Rock and Roll, Rap and Electronic music now. Damn kids these days.

  • booly@sh.itjust.works
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    2 hours ago

    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.

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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.

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    My kids have an amazingly eclectic taste in music because (I’m convinced anyways) we never did the kid music thing.

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    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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    13 hours ago

    My heart was about to burst with pride when my kids asked to add Meshuggah to their playlist.

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    10 hours ago

    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).

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    I could put on an Aerosmith record before I knew how to put 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.

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    20 hours ago

    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.

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      16 hours ago

      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.

      • Dragon Rider (drag)@lemmy.nz
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        13 hours ago

        Just tell them that Eminem is more popular with old white people because his melanin levels are less threatening to their old people sensibilities