# Help me brainwash a 6 y.o.-musically that is **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 10, 2011, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-brainwash-a-6-y-o-musically-that-is/602542 "2011-11-10T22:41:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2011, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-brainwash-a-6-y-o-musically-that-is/602542/41 "2011-11-11T23:20:26Z")
> [@gaffa](#): > > I do have one suggestion: Instead of “Guitar Hero”, get them a real guitar. Aldi has a crappy acoustic guitar in this weeks ad for $16.95! I just got back from Aldi. It is a child-sized guitar. They didn’t have one out of the box, but if you consider it a toy instead of an instrument, it is still a very inexpensive toy. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2011, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-brainwash-a-6-y-o-musically-that-is/602542/42 "2011-11-11T23:26:50Z")
> [@FriarTed](#): > > Rare? The “You’re so awesome just for being you” song genre has offerings by Katy, Pink (F\*ing Perfect), Christina Aguilera (Beautiful), Lady Gaga (Born This Way) & I’m sure others. Alas, they’re late-coming anthems for the “Self-esteem w/o earning self-respect” movement. Rare for Perry. I mean, Firework is scrunched in there between California Gurls and Peacock. That being said, Katy Perry’s only in her 20s so it’s not like she was lollygagging at making a GRRL power song. ---
**Author:** ![Critical1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@Critical1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Critical1)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2011, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-brainwash-a-6-y-o-musically-that-is/602542/43 "2011-11-12T03:03:33Z")
Tom Waits, Kids can totally get into him and his weirdness. ---
**Author:** ![Peanuthead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peanuthead/32/360_2.png) [@Peanuthead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peanuthead)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2011, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-brainwash-a-6-y-o-musically-that-is/602542/44 "2011-11-12T04:07:31Z")
> [@Critical1](#): > > Tom Waits, Kids can totally get into him and his weirdness. When my younger son was 6 years old he knew all the words to Tom Waits’ “Pasties and a G-String”. Everybody got a big kick out of that. About 20 years later I asked him if he still knew all the words. He said, “Yeah. But now I know what they mean”. 😃 [Link](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPSktrg6GO0) ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2011, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-brainwash-a-6-y-o-musically-that-is/602542/45 "2011-11-12T13:32:19Z")
> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#): > > Louis Armstrong > Dizzy Gillespie > [@Teufelblitz](#): > > ++Good Add Eartha Kitt to the list, then. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2011, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-brainwash-a-6-y-o-musically-that-is/602542/46 "2011-11-13T03:24:50Z")
> [@Beeotrice](#): > > I don’t know that you can really force/trick him into liking anything in particular. I think it’s more important to instill a love of music in general. I agree. What I would try to “force/trick” is an open mind about musical genres. But… > [@gaffa](#): > > Yeah, no matter what you do, he will probably hear more different styles of music and a wider range of artists than you have ever heard. I ran across a great article a year or so ago, and this grizzled music writer was at a relation’s wedding. He found himself spending most of the evening involved in what he described as the most wide-ranging and fascinating conversation about music he had ever had - with a 15 year old cousin. …this doesn’t seem as much of an issue with kids today. They seem to have much broader tastes now then they used to. ---
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2011, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-brainwash-a-6-y-o-musically-that-is/602542/47 "2011-11-13T06:41:26Z")
[This.](http://betterbookreviews.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/ludivico.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2011, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-brainwash-a-6-y-o-musically-that-is/602542/48 "2011-11-13T18:28:17Z")
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