Kidz Bop 5

Kidz Bop Kids

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 13, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 2
• ASIN: B00015V5A8
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 1.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #230,859 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

• This item is part of The Kidz Bop Series.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com
Tempting as it is to dismiss the Kidz Bop craze as a temporary triumph of bad taste, the release of the fifth disc in the series signals that the time has come to start listening. Kidz Bop 5 cinches together a music scene fragmented beyond recognition for easy consumption. If you're not familiar with the rocker Headstrong it's probably because you're tuned in to a format friendlier to the pure-pop Crazy in Love; Kidz Bop snaps the barrier between the two and introduces kids and out-of-the-loop parents to both. The benefit of the all-kid chorus, other than confirming for 5- to 10-year-olds that they are where they ought to be, remains elusive, but it's not unbearable. Bottom line: If you've got to start bopping sometime, now's as good a time as any. --Tammy La Gorce

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars I can see both sides of this argument, but..., February 26, 2004

By	Devin DiMattia "dimattiafilms.com" (North Carolina, USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

...Even though parents do need better ways of making sure the music their kids listen to is clean, I honestly think Kidz Bop is not the way to do it. Not only are record executives getting rich off these blatant knock-offs of pop songs, they are caring less and less about the cleanliness of Top 40 radio, causing parents to buy even more of these compilations. Has it really gotten to the point where parents have to buy a compilation album of children singing edited versions of songs just to make sure there's nothing dirty on the album?? Hey, I have a crazy idea. TURN OFF THE RADIO!! Honestly, for parents, Kidz Bop is the EASY WAY OUT. Put a little work into finding clean music that is also quality music. There's a lot out there. Despite the Britneys and 50 Cents out there, there is clean music that is popular. All you have to do is look for it.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars This series must be stopped, February 26, 2004

By A Customer

Why does the music industry continue to inflict upon the general public this horrible series of children singing off-key versions of already terrible pop songs? As much as I immensely dislike the "Now!" series at least the songs are sung by the original artists. I guess that isn't enough therefore someone thought it would be a great idea to get a bunch of tone-deaf children to massacre a bunch of pop songs for the sake of the bottom line.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Can't you get them a Sesame Street record instead?, February 18, 2004

By	"ultramaus" (Pontiac, MI) - See all my reviews

The idea of kids singing popular songs is bizarre to me, I'll admit, but I won't let my confusion get in the way of my revulsion. Aside from the sheer audacity of trying to get kids to sound authentically like Jay-Z or whoever else, is it appropriate?

And how about "Hey Ya!," yes it's the best jam of last year but it is after all the bounciest song ever written about dumping a girl because you were only in it for the sex to begin with. When Andre says "Y'all don't want to hear me, you just want to dance," he meant the people responsible for this CD. Getting rid of the word "come" does not give the track merit as kids' music, any more than bragging about being "Ice Cold" is appropriate just because it comes out of a kid's mouth.

I'm not going to go into the taste issue, that seems obvious to me, and it's been pretty well stated in other reviews. Just think about it before buying it for your kids. Pop music is made for teenagers, not toddlers, and while the words generally go right past younger kids, is most pop's message what you want to be sending to them?