Customer Reviews

Kidz Bop 6

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With songs such as "Toxic", "Are You Gonna Be My Girl?", and "My Immortal" (all unchanged, I must add here),this CD is 100% unsuitable for children there is no merit to this CD as not only is it not appropriate, but every CD in this series sounds as though as a group of children are singing with their babysitter at a birthday party, and that the babysitter is allowing them to use suggestive language.

Honestly, these CD's seem to be for cheapskate lazy parents who won't shell out money for or time to find "real" CD's such as the Radio Disney series, which contain edited versions of the real songs (by the real artists no less) and the awesome soundtrack to Sega's "Sonic Heroes" video game.

And I have experience with these reprehensible discs because my nieces insist upon listening to them, and I have a feeling that we will all be subjected to another year of having to listen to "Kidz Bop Christmas". You know, it's funny that my mom and stepdad find real Christmas CD's such as Gary Hoey's "Ho Ho Hoey" annoying and refuse to let me play them at the family Christmases, but that squawking children aren't annoying and children who have no business singing "All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth" played over is entertainment. And God forbid we say anything negative about it or my 8 year old niece throws an ungodly fit. Someone pass the eggnog...heavily spiked please because I have a feeling my niece is getting this one for Christmas...yippee and woo hoo.This being said, I really give this no stars, but one is the lowest this system goes, so I guess I have to be happy with that.

I'm a 21 year old summer nanny to 3 kids under 10 and I have toddler-age cousins who I watch as well, and I am really disgusted with some of the song choices for these cds. I realize kids are going to talk about many subjects that would have been taboo when I was little, and they are exposed to a great deal through the various media forms, but I wouldn't let my kids listen to my Maroon 5 cd. Seriously, isn't it borderline pedaphillic to make "My pressure on your hips, sinkin' my fingertips into every inch of you, cause I know that's what you want me to do.." children's lyrics, DIRECTLY marketed at the toddler to tween age bracket?
What's next, "Let's Get Drunk" by Jimmy Buffett?
I can hear it now, angelic children's voices singing, "Barmaid, bring a pitcher, another round of brew, Honey, why don't we get drunk and screw" Seriously people, stop buying these cds. There are a lot of things your kids like and like to do but that doesn't mean they're in their best interest.
I give this negative stars, black holes.

Reasons why the "Kidz Bop" series of compilations are signs of the end times (or damn close, anyway):

1. Every (and I do mean EVERY) song is endlessly recycled mainstream pop radio fodder. It's all here, folks. Everything from lipsynching flash-in-the-pans, to Hot Topic rejects, to uber-bland alt radio muzak. Lousy, lousy taste in source material to begin with. Throw in a Limp Bizkit or Nelly album and you'll have all the bases covered for intellectually sterile crap.

2. Ironically, a good deal of these songs contain sexual (Are You Gonna Be My Girl?, Toxic) or dark (Hold On, My Immortal) subject matter, completely unedited. Would you actually expose your tyke to a lyric like "I've tried so hard to tell myself that you're gone/and though you're still with me/I've been alone all along?" Might as well throw them a Joy Division album while you're at it. The music is actually worth a serious listen.... unlike Evanescence.

3. They actually get ahold of bad songs and make them WORSE. Phenomenally WORSE. How so? Well, remove the original vocalists and replace them with way out-of-key children and equally tone-deaf adults. I can sing better than this, and trust me, that ain't saying much. Hell, I'd rather listen to this with the sounds of screaming rhesus monkeys overdubbed. At least it would accurately represent the evolutionary state of people who buy this for their kids.

4. They take last year's rehashed crap and make dance remixes out of them. If you thought Sk8ter Boi (and I lost 10 IQ points by just typing that song title) was bad in its original form, imagine a buttpounder remix with the aforementioned "vocalists" over top. It's enough to drive any sane adult batsh-t crazy.

5. Even their album covers suck arse. Am I the only one who notices this? The awful backgrounds, the HUGE block lettering in random bright colors...nice job with the sales aids, guys! Almost gave my cat a seizure. Negative stars for packaging alone.

I could continue on ad nauseum, but I think I've made my point. Turn your kids away from mind-numbing contemporary radio. Go buy 'em something by The Beatles, Big Star, Beach Boys etc. for their pop fix. If you really want to stimulate their noggins, encourage an appreciation of Dylan. If you're an Ultra-Conservative Parent who fears pop culture and thinks that the inclusion of lyrics in music will make your children engage in random acts of violence, have them take some doses of Coltrane, Davis, Brubeck, and Parker and call me in the mornin'. Just don't buy this, concerned parents, or I may have to report you for child abuse.

i don't own any of these cd's, though i have been subjected to them here and there. reading these reviews i think a lot of people missed the point. a few got it, much to my delight. of course the cd sounds like trash. there are very few decent artists on it. the inclusion of britney spears rates it automatically trash for me. i'm not, however, so worried about the sound. i have a 2-year old niece and a host of other children in my life and listening to really annoying-sounding children's songs is something i have the fortitude to stomach.

the point here for me is that Kidz Bop is full of content i wouldn't want any child of mine listening to. as some have pointed out, the lyrics to Evanescence's "My Immortal" are quite poignant and require more understanding than a child's limited experiences can provide.

for the chap (or chapette) who said their hip 8 year old daughter loves these cd's, i have only to say that i wouldn't let my own child listen to this because the content is too mature. no 8-year-old child needs to know yet about toxic anything, being turned on, wanting someone, or any of the other of the array of frightening material on this cd. for me it's not a matter of whether the kids like the music. as a parent it is your job to take care with the things your child sees and hears. does an eight-year-old girl really need to be exposed to sexual content? it's already been proven that children these days are dabbling in things that are presented to them by the media in such a way that it's appealing to them, yet the implications of what they are dealing with is far beyond their capacity to comprehend or compensate for appropriately.

it comes as no surprise to me that while the first of these cd's was relatively benign, over the years the music included has become more and more suggestive. changing the lyrics as taken less and less priority over marketing these cd's to children in a hurry to listen to the latest top 40 garbage. this is not to say that all top 40 songs are garbage, but it seems to me that the more violent, suggestive, evocative the lyrics (and video and artist's image) the more popular the songs become. i am a fan of Maroon 5 but i'll be damned if i am *ever* going to listen to my child sing ANYTHING with the word "coming" in it the way it's used in that song. really? is it really okay for a little kid to sing "i tried to keep her coming every night, so hard to keep her satisfied?" what will you do when you have to explain that lyric to your child? personally i'd be ashamed to have that coming out of the mouth of any child of mine, because it would mean that as a parent i am lax in my job because it's too much work to be vigilant.

keep mature content where it belongs, in the hands and minds of mature people, who can understand and respond appropriately. this cd brings too much to children and i'm pretty sure it's contributing to the decline of society.

I read some of the other reviews...the reviewer "shotgun method" really made me laugh so hard, I couldn't hold it together. I agree with all this person's statements wholeheartedly.

And let me add my own manifesto. First of all, shame on music companies for doing anything they can to make money. That is why this CD is being sold. The companies believe that the kids will enjoy the melodies and the sounds and connect to pop-idols, and will be able to sing along with their peers on the cd ,which has kids singing, so thereby this creates a connection that now the kids can feel with the popstars.

And who needs to have popstars as influences. These people are actors; they put on a persona because that is what they think people want to see; that is what they get paid for. It is a facade. Why expose kids to fake sounds and imagery that will not help them at all with basic living skills and distract them from other more meaningful activities that could stimulate their minds in a constructive direction (how about reading).

Lastly, the titles of these songs and the lyrical content that make up these songs are incomprehensible to the young mind. So why have kids on a cd singing about topics that they know nothing about. Even when you get older, some of these songs don't make sense...they are a vast distortion of reality.

In conclusion, there are plenty of modes of entertainment that are both educational and fun for kids; kqed offers many great programs, and for listening, classical music is a great way to tune kids into different instruments that they may later choose to take up when they grow older; or, if they want to hear singing, at least let them hear what a true opera singer's voice sounds like, because many pop singers know only falsetto or other throat singing methods that don't engage the diaphram.

I've said enough.

And I mean TRASH. I don't own this CD, but I've heard the songs and I have a lot to say about them. None of it good. First of all, Kidz Bop music is supposedly 'safe' and 'appropriate.' That could not be further from the truth, particularly when it comes to Kidz Bop 6. What the heck are these little kids doing singing, "You're toxic, I'm slipping under, oh the taste of a poison paradise, I'm addicted to you/Intoxicate me now, with your lovin' now" from Toxic or talking about your lover cheating on you in Me, Myself And I or the death of your lover/having suicidal thoughts in My Immortal or 'keep her coming every night, so hard to keep her satisfied' in This Love?? "Come Clean" is really the only song that fits this album. Kidz Bop should be focusing on stuff from like Hilary Duff and Raven-Symone and Dream Street and Aaron Carter and Lindsay Lohan and Jesse McCartney......not mainstream artists, whose talent couldn't possibly be understood, let alone appreciated, by kids this age. Because not only do they ruin (hell, BUTCHER) the songs themselves when they reproduce them, they don't even edit explicit lyrics! These are basically watered-down, far less enjoyable, far worse-produced versions of today's radio hits. If you honestly think listening to a bunch of kids squawking out covers of radio hits while horrific backing tracks fumble along in the background is what kids want to do, you are truly an idiot. You'd be far better off purchasing the original versions of these songs, or just go get a volume of NOW or something. This.....THIS....is complete and total garbage whose only purpose is to empty your wallet of twenty bucks and make you cringe in agony and disgust when you hear the noise they try to pass off as music screech out of your CD player.

This is total slaughter. I hear you teenies say 2But it's jsut for kiiiids, you heartless jerk!" but these covers are sold to make bunch of CA$H.

Behind these I.Q less kids singing are men in black suits who want to make millions. Using these innocent voices? Yes. Uncoordinated voices and loud screamings, this is pure crap. Especially the backing tracks supposed to be the artists (in "I'm still in love with you" and "Beautiful")

P-S : I don't think the kids singing know the true meaning of naughty songs like "Toxic". A sexual message is hidden and the kids don't know it.

Just when you thought it was over.
Just when you thought it had gone away.
Just when you thought it was safe to turn on Nickelodeon or the Disney Channel...

KIDZ BOP 6!
* screams *
And this time... it's personal.

Rated PG for Pretty Ghastly. Coming soon to a soccer mom's new minivan's CD player near you.

All jib-jabs aside, I have to know... how did this absymal series make it THIS far?! Or, WHO KEEPS BUYING THIS CRAP?! My God... the songs on here (or at least most of them) were awful to begin with, but add a bunch of screaming kids and an unknown talentless hack to the mix, and, well, you do the math. Parents, why not let your kids listen to GOOD music? Hell, I was listening to Green Day's "Dookie" when I was eight.

So I leave you with this: PLEASE leave this "album", along with the rest of the unlistenable claptrap from this completely talent-devoid series, to sit on the shelf. I assure you, if you buy this, not only will you hate it, but your kids will hate it as well, and the evil minds behind this will make another buck off of you and your ignorance, encouraging them to make more! It's a lose-lose-lose situation! Have a nice holiday.

Many of the songs on this CD sucked to begin with, but some of them were actually pretty good.

I bet when the original singers see/hear what these retarded children have done with their once-upon-a-time "music" they scream and want a lawsuit.

What I want to know is: who the hell came up with the idea to take these so-called kid-appropriate songs and then sentence them to death by idiotic four-year-olds who don't even understand the words?

If you're going to let your little kid listen to a teen's music choices, with only the inappropriate words edited (not the suggestive content) then you might as well let them listen to the real thing...

Kidz Bop is beyond horrible... Reading these reviews has made me laugh awfully hard, but it's so sickly true that it's (almost) not funny.

And to everyone who bought this for their kid (or kids who bought it for themselves): Go have your heads examined... Or possibly just allow yourself to be run over by a dumptruck to spare you this HEINOUS CD.

I had bought a Kidz Bop CD, but I got very sick of the songs. Although the cds held some of my favorites, I thought too much kids sang along with them. They over did it with the kids voice, and made it sound like a 5 year old's CD with a teens music choice. Sick.