I just feel kind of sorry for the kid in the black sleeveless shirt, playing air-guitar to match up with the recorded guitar… and there’s no guitar on the recording, just a synthesizer, drums, and vocals. He’s just playing along, and doing some head-banging (with short hair, which always works so well), and there’s no music coming out…
See, I always knew there would be some long-term trauma from having your kids watch Barney and Friends, and this is it…
I remembered reading something about this…
I was never a Devo-tee, but these songs are pretty catchy! Heck, I’m buying the album!
Sex Pistols 2.0
Hey, don’t forget the Disney-fied lyrics …
I am a good little citizen
I am an honest student
Don’t know what I want but
I know how to get it
I wanna be good at school 'cuz I
Don’t … want … anarchy !
:: SHUDDER ::
How is it “subversive” if they’re changing all the freakin’ lyrics? All references to “girls” have been changed to “boys” to suit the female singer. In “Big Mess”, the line has been changed from “I’m a man with a mission/A boy with a gun” to “I’m a girl with a mission/A girl havin’ fun!” I mean, come on! This is just more cheesy KidsBop crap. Is KidsBop considered subversive, because it gets little kids to listen to Green Day only without the cursing? It’s nice to think that this will get a whole new generation into Devo, but may I ask what is wrong about introducing kids to the original rather than the candy-coated-Mousketeer versions?
I’m quite sure I am overreacting, but dammit, Devo is quite possibly my favourite band of all time, and the only thing more depressing than the fact that this is going on is the fact that the band is apparently so hard up for recognition that they are in on it.
My kids (5 & 8) love the real Ramones. Sometimes when we’re leaving the house my wife shouts “Hey, Ho!” and both kids yell “Let’s GO!”
Homosexuality and kids with guns aren’t really family-friendly.
I always knew it would be bad. Really, really bad. I just didn’t realize how bad really, really bad was actually going to be.
I would say that it could be worse but I don’t want to jinx us all.
DOH!
Precisely. So - why even bother? If the songs have to be rewritten to make them acceptable for that age group, why use those songs?
The whole thing gives me the Rage.
The day I hear a group of shiny, happy pre-teens sing “Too Drunk To Fuck”, I swear to Og I’m blowing my brains out.
Actually, there’s already a Devo inspired band from Japan - Polysics. They specifically made a point to visit Akron the last time they came to the US to play (last year).
Look, Devo was all about celebrating the authenticity of fakeness and the fakeness of authenticity and the freakiness of conformity and the conformity of freakiness and the horribleness and wonderfulness of the plastic age. This is project is entirely in keeping with the spirit of De-evolution.
Sweet Lord NO! That’s just terrible; the kids are awful to watch, and the vocals are just wrong.
We are Devo…
Are we not kids?
Brace yourselves, True Believers, and dig: If this is what they’ll do to Devo, what’s Pixar in for?
They should have done this with those little blonde neo-nazi twins. 
Different? Dev2.0 is better than that Kidz Bop pap!
Serious props to Casale for running with this idea. With Disney’s help, a whole new generation of kids could be turned on to the writings of Oscar Kiss Maerth and his theory of human descent from brain-eating psychic apes.
So, does anyone genuinely believe any of the execs at Disney knew anything about DEVO or their source materials before they greenlighted this project?
What I find funny in all this is how upset you children are getting about something that never had anything to do with REAL music anyway.
Now, the real sign of the apocalypse will be if some clueless corporate entity gets their hand on something meaningful like Led Zeppelin.
Oh, wait. What???
Wow this is an incredible [sub]downer.[/sub] 
Others have wondered what Disney might do to other groups.
How about Pla2matic2.0 ? :eek:
Maybe they would get a glue gun and repair a guitar?
Instead of driving a Cadillac into the stage, they’d sing about seatbelt safety and defensive driving?
I am not happy about this “trend” at all.
I say nay nay* to your reading of my post. My meaning was that I didn’t care that Kidz Bop was bastardizing modern hits since I don’t like those songs regardless of how crappy they sung it but now that they’re coming after songs I like and bands I like I say to them, nay nay!
You know what this is kinda like. Those old monkey movies only with kids. How long till Scarface 2.0?
*John Pinette’s a funny guy
Unless this word was the only one you were focusing on. By different I meant this isn’t just mining the pop charts to use for their own purposes, this is reimagining other bands … as kids. Reimagining is almost always bad as exampled by the other 2.0 suggestions. And by different I also meant that other bands could see this as a way to make money and not having to go through those small channels.
Really the first 2.0s I’d expect to see if this is popular are The Beatles and the Beach Boys. And I say Nay Nay!