No, I have no idea why my kids are all into Rock and Roll, Rap and Electronic music now. Damn kids these days.
If your kids aren’t shouting “Oi, oi, oi, oi” to AC/DC’s TNT, are you even a real father?
Yes, Raffi made some fuckin bangers. Have you heard bananaphone?
Kids in college, but Bananaphone still gets referenced semi-regularly in my household.
Honorable mention to Baby Beluga and Joshua Giraffe as well.
it’s so sad the way that the phone rang and rang and rang and rang and rang and rang and rang and no one answered.
Raffi helped make this during COVID: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-tQjeT5bD6k
Do people actually play kids music to kids? I thought that stuff was exclusively used for background noise in YouTube kids Elsa impregnation videos.
One of my aunts played Christian kids music until my cousins were like 16 and everyone was expected to sing along
Somehow, that’s actually much better. It looped back around from silly to amazing
My 7 year old was in a car pool to go to an after school activity. Each girl got to pick a song and apparently all but once picked a kids song. My daughter asked if they could play Green Day.
I played Casper babypants for my kid when she was young. He was the singer of the presidents of the United States of America and it’s honestly just pusa music but a little more kiddie like. Absolute bangers plus my kid live pusa now.
I successfully used the Barenaked Ladies Snacktime! album to move one of my friend’s kids from kids music to folk rock to hard rock. She now occasionally drags me to big concerts and we got tattoos (not matching) at the same time for her very first tattoo. I’m her favorite uncle, even though she has two that are actually related and pretty good guys.
Sunrise, sunset.
Can confirm about the Caspar Babypants bangers, and would also like to add Secret Agent 23 Skidoo for totally amazing kidhop, his daughter even raps with him.
My parents played fucking Shlock Rock cassettes in the car when we were kids.
Can you imagine my shock when I find out that Chumbawumba’s “Tubthumping” doesn’t start with “We’ll be praying… in the morning… in the evening…”
I’ve never heard anything about schlock rock. What a bizarre concept. I fully believed that you were messing with me until I heard “M-m-m-m-m-m-my menorah” to the tune of “my Sharona”
I’m glad I was able to enrich your day just a little bit.
I just played the music I’ve always wanted to listen to. If there was bad words, I’d either turn down the volume at that point or skip that song.
Elsa impregnation videos, you say. Huh. Hmm.
YouTube got real weird for a bit
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.
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.
My six year old niece on her first day of school after riding with my wife all afternoon the previous day.
My neck, my back
Lick my pu…The teacher:
as long as its the richard cheese version
My little daughter got her own baby music, but she enjoys listening to the Temptations, Apollo Brown or Gojira with me. She knows Daddy doesn’t play her shit.
This raises kids with cool music tastes. My 14yo might be a bigger fan of 2000s indie rock than I am, and I was, y’know, both a fan of and the target demographic of that music when it was being made.
My heart was about to burst with pride when my kids asked to add Meshuggah to their playlist.
my sister used to make me put on death metal on youtube but scroll down away from the cover art because it scared her. she was like 5 😂
My son’s favorite song when he was 5 was Walk by Pantera
Apparently I had the down with the sickness “oh-WA-A-A-A” down before age 3
My kids are well aware that the Wu is not to be fucked with.
But as ODB said, “Wu-Tang is for the children”
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.
My offspring knows more than they should about underground hiphop, punk rock, and electronic music.
My offspring knows pop punk.
Is this blink 182?
Wow. This was Drax level of obliviousness.
I was never really into the offspring I keep forgetting they exist
No kidding, that’s obviously Green Day
That is The Offspring
Oh I get it now.
My daughter loves rage against the machine and jazz24. However ever since I showed her the Sound of Music (1965) to introduce the topic of fascism and Nazis to her, she’s been listening to that nonstop. Its a great film with a great soundtrack though so I can’t complain too much. Still, slowly weaning her off. Maybe I should have let her watch the producers?
Maybe I should have let her watch the producers?
Nah, dive in fully and let her watch ‘downfall’.
When my son was three, in the back seat of the used squad car I was driving at the time, Beastie Boys would come on: “LOUDER, DADDY!”
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.
My 6 year old says Wu Tang is for the children anytime their music comes on lmao
My kids have an amazingly eclectic taste in music because (I’m convinced anyways) we never did the kid music thing.
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).
That comparison sounds a little unfair to the kitten.
