No, I have no idea why my kids are all into Rock and Roll, Rap and Electronic music now. Damn kids these days.

  • 2ugly2live
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    12 months ago

    Only time I had “kid” music must have been when I was, like, a toddler. Because I don’t remember a single time getting in my mom’s car without Boyz II Men or something playing. I didn’t even get to suggest music to play until I was in college 😅

  • dohpaz42
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    22 months ago

    I had kid music in my car, while they were in booster seats. But as soon as the boosters went away, so did the kid music. Now my flesh listens to everything I listen to, and more.

  • @Korhaka@sopuli.xyz
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    32 months ago

    Your parents played kid music? Mine played The Pogues. Which I suppose isn’t exactly inappropriate for children.

  • CubitOom
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    132 months ago

    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?

    • @Lupus@feddit.org
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      52 months ago

      Maybe I should have let her watch the producers?

      Nah, dive in fully and let her watch ‘downfall’.

  • jecxjo
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    32 months ago

    Took my 7 and 5 year olds to go see Green Day, Smashing Pumpkins, and Rancid last summer. Taking them to a music festival this summer and probably Offspring in the fall. They listen to 80s and 90s music on their own, and I’ll turn on the older rock when we get in the car.

  • @BlackDynomite@lemm.ee
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    242 months ago

    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.

    • socialjusticewizard
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      152 months ago

      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.

  • IndescribablySad@threads.net
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    2 months ago

    Do people actually play kids music to kids? I thought that stuff was exclusively used for background noise in YouTube kids Elsa impregnation videos.

    • @Zexks@lemmy.world
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      52 months ago

      Yes. I’d rather my kids sing the abc’s rather than about bitches or their pussy and ass crack. Very little ‘adult’ music doesn’t have seriously adult overtones. Maybe 80’s rock with coke and pedophilia. Nah

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          Give me some 80 rock bands that don’t talk about doing drugs or teenagers.

          Lol that’s what I thought. You got nothing but down votes cause you know I’m right. Denial is a hell of a drug.

          • socialjusticewizard
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            12 months ago

            You got nothing but down votes cause you know I’m right. Denial is a hell of a drug.

            I down voted and didn’t bother replying because your comment was too plainly stupid to merit followup, you absolute tool. Not only are there plenty of great songs from the 80s that aren’t about sex and drugs, but you also just proved my point by picking a specific sub genre and acting like it represents all of music.

          • skulblaka
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            62 months ago

            Not every song is going to be a winner. But generally speaking:

            • Heart
            • Led Zeppelin (this one is more 70’s than 80’s, but I think my point stands)
            • Huey Lewis and the News
            • Bon Jovi
            • Hall & Oates
            • Journey

            Just to name a few, all have plenty of songs without sex, drugs or violence.

            If you sit down and listen to every album straight through, sure, you’ll probably find a song that talks about sex. Because humans have been singing about sex for as long as we’ve known how to sing. It’s not forbidden knowledge for teenagers, they’re allowed to know that it exists. Some genres go overboard with it - a lot of modern rap, for instance - but you’re essentially arguing that an entire decade’s worth of a genre of music is just all trash that only talks about sex and drugs. That’s just silly, and definitively untrue.

    • jecxjo
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      142 months ago

      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.

    • @PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca
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      52 months ago

      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…”

      • IndescribablySad@threads.net
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        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”

    • KingJalopy
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      72 months ago

      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.

      • @TexasDrunk@lemmy.world
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        32 months ago

        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.

      • @beccaboben@lemmy.world
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        12 months ago

        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.

    • Ms. ArmoredThirteen
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      172 months ago

      One of my aunts played Christian kids music until my cousins were like 16 and everyone was expected to sing along

    • @FattestMattest@lemmy.world
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      22 months ago

      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.

  • 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).

  • @Jinzul@lemmy.ca
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    72 months ago

    My kids have an amazingly eclectic taste in music because (I’m convinced anyways) we never did the kid music thing.

    • Quokka
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      12 months ago

      @Jinzul @cm0002 yep. i drew the line. no kid’s music in the cars. And we had Classic Rock Bathtimes.
      They’re better for it.
      And so am I

  • @HalfSalesman@lemm.ee
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    82 months ago

    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.