Kid-Friendly Music

I love popular music and always have CDs or the radio on in the car, but in pop culture, kid-friendly songs are few and far between these days.

It’s not just the language (ever listen to a radio edit of Eminem and Nate Dogg’s “Shake That”? There are pretty much no words left in the song, just big empty spaces), but the content that just doesn’t sound right when you picture children singing these songs that are on the radio all the time.

Little girls encouraging people to “Loosen up my buttons,” or singing, “Don’t you wish your girlfriend was hot like me?” or little boys singing “Smack that, all on the floor, smack that.” It just doesn’t seem right.

How do you deal with this? If the record companies would sell ‘family-friendly’ versions of their CDs, I’d be the first to buy them…but I’m guessing it ain’t in the cards.

There is a CD line out where kids are signing popular hit songs. It’s called Kidz Bop and they are always coming out with new CDs of current hit songs, edited and sang by kids, for kids…but I couldn’t listen to that all day or I’d go batty! ;-)

The latest version is the KidzBop 11 CD which features songs like “Walk Away” by Kelly Clarkson, John Mayer’s “Waiting on the World to Change” and “Lips of an Angel” by Hinder.