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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Not really for kids and awful to boot....., November 27, 2004
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.
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17 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Kidz Poop is more like it, December 7, 2004
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.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Totally Inappropriate, November 29, 2005
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.
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