# Kidz Bop Must Be Stopped **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 26, 2002, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kidz-bop-must-be-stopped/105825 "2002-04-26T18:37:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2002, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kidz-bop-must-be-stopped/105825/1 "2002-04-26T18:37:20Z")
Kidz Bop, for those who don’t know, is a compilation CD in which they take popular songs, record them using the Kidz Bop Kids as singers (they sound pre-teen) and then marketed the disks heavily on Nick and during kids programming on other channels. The first problem is with the absolutely cheeriness of kids singing songs about topics way over their heads. Now they’ve come out with the second release featuring the following songs: 01 Kryptonite 02 Turn Off The Light 03 Shape Of My Heart 04 Hanging By A Moment 05 Fallin’ 06 Absolutely (Story Of A Girl) 07 Survivor 08 Follow Me 09 U Remind Me 10 Higher 11 Crazy For This Girl 12 Lucky 13 He Loves U Not 14 Smooth 15 I’m A Believer I don’t recognize most of these, but did you notice #8? That’s a freakin’ song about an ADULTEROUS AFFAIR the singer is having with a married woman! What the HELL do you think the damned verse > [@](#): > > And I don’t worry 'bout the ring you wear > ‘Cause as long as no one knows > Then nobody can care > You’re feelin’ guilty > And I’m well aware > But you don’t look ashamed > And baby I’m not scared is talking about? Hint: It ain’t the freakin’ One Ring from Lord of the Rings. Several of the others which I have heard also adult themed. WTF! If you’re going to to make this insipid, uncreative dreck at least make the shit AGE APPROPRIATE you mother-fuckers. ---
**Author:** ![auntie\_em](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@auntie\_em](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/auntie_em)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2002, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kidz-bop-must-be-stopped/105825/2 "2002-04-26T18:42:39Z")
I had a similar album as a kid… 'twas a K-Tel version of the songs from the _Saturday Night Fever_ soundtrack. Of course, there weren’t KIDS singing the songs–only ersatz, never-gonna-make-it bands–but the album was for kids, so it’s kinda the same concept… ---
**Author:** ![Gundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b782af/32.png) [@Gundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gundy)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2002, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kidz-bop-must-be-stopped/105825/3 "2002-04-26T19:00:34Z")
I, too, hate the idea. But I’m pretty sure the lyrics are bowdlerized for the children’s protection. ---
**Author:** ![Cargogal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/48db29/32.png) [@Cargogal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cargogal)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2002, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kidz-bop-must-be-stopped/105825/4 "2002-04-26T19:09:26Z")
Ach, when I was a kid I listened to Chipmunk Punk. I hate to admit it. I did not understand the lyrics, at all - including the ones about rolling Blondie in designer sheets. I just liked the voices (it pains me to admit, now). Then again, look at how I turned out. ---
**Author:** ![Judith\_Prietht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b19c9b/32.png) [@Judith\_Prietht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Judith_Prietht)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2002, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kidz-bop-must-be-stopped/105825/5 "2002-04-26T20:53:35Z")
Every time I scan the thread topics and see this one, I get Poison’s “Unskinny Bop” stuck in my head. ---
**Author:** ![auntie\_em](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@auntie\_em](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/auntie_em)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2002, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kidz-bop-must-be-stopped/105825/6 "2002-04-26T21:13:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Cargogal \* > \*\*Ach, when I was a kid I listened to Chipmunk Punk. I hate to admit it. I did not understand the lyrics, at all - including the ones about rolling Blondie in designer sheets. I just liked the voices (it pains me to admit, now). > > Then again, look at how I turned out. \*\* OMG! I had _The Chipmunks Sing The Beatles’ Hits_! In “Twist and Shout”, they sang “dance all about” instead of “work it on out”. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2002, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kidz-bop-must-be-stopped/105825/7 "2002-04-27T00:01:20Z")
I had Disco Mickey Mouse! Macho Duck was the best! ---
**Author:** ![syncrolecyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f08c70/32.png) [@syncrolecyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/syncrolecyne)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2002, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kidz-bop-must-be-stopped/105825/8 "2002-04-27T00:22:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Guinastasia \* > \*\*I had Disco Mickey Mouse! > > Macho Duck was the best! \*\* {I} Pictures Mickey Mouse with a white suit, half open red shirt, gold medallion, and sideburns having a martini with a duck in a construction uniform with ‘mom’ tattooed on his wing and cracks up \*. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2002, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kidz-bop-must-be-stopped/105825/9 "2002-04-27T18:38:15Z")
lol. But actually, I don’t think that “Follow Me” is about adultery, rather I’ve heard it’s based on heroin addiction, if that makes you feel any better. Personally, I think it’s hilarious that the little tykes have no clue what they’re saying. If we can get it on tape, what fun we’ll have blackmailing them in say…ten years? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![DoctorJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctorj/32/2904_2.png) [@DoctorJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoctorJ)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2002, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kidz-bop-must-be-stopped/105825/10 "2002-04-27T18:52:54Z")
Personally, I’m looking forward to the Kidz Bop rendering of Snoop Doggy Dogg’s classic, _Doggystyle_. Or maybe _Straight Outta Compton_. Dr. J ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2002, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kidz-bop-must-be-stopped/105825/11 "2002-04-27T19:46:22Z")
In the _Rugrats In Paris_ movie, Angelica sings the song “Bad Girls”, and there was a toy tie-in, a doll that sang it, too, a karaoke-like thing with a microphone so that the little kid could sing along with her. Uh, do you suppose anyone realized that song was about freaking **HOOKERS?!?** ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2002, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kidz-bop-must-be-stopped/105825/12 "2002-04-27T19:52:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Zoggie \* > **But actually, I don’t think that “Follow Me” is about adultery, rather I’ve heard it’s based on heroin addiction, if that makes you feel any better.** How the zarg-flarking wang do you justify that interpretation? Look at these lyrics and tell me how you interpret them to mean ‘herion junky’, will ya? > [@](#): > > And I don’t worry 'bout the ring you wear > ‘Cause as long as no one knows > Then nobody can care > You’re feelin’ guilty > And I’m well aware > But you don’t look ashamed > And baby I’m not scared Here’s how I parse it: [ul] [li]Ring = wedding ring. Not from the singer.[/li][li][A]s long as no one knows,/then nobody can care = Adultery is usually secret. It isn’t a criminal offense, but it’s grounds for divorce and a large legal battle.[/li][li]You’re feeling guilty = The wife feels guilt over sleeping around.[/li][li]And I’m well aware = that I’m infringing on another man’s nookie.[/li][li]But you don’t look ashamed/And baby I’m not scared = Both lines fit right in with an adultery interpretation.[/li][/ul] Now, out of curiosity, how can you interpret “Follow Me” as being about heroin addiction? Are we listening to the same wanging song? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2002, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kidz-bop-must-be-stopped/105825/13 "2002-04-27T20:41:57Z")
Well… > [@](#): > > All you know is when I’m with you I make you free > And swim through your veins like a fish in the sea Veins…as in heroin goes through one’s veins and makes one feel free. > [@](#): > > If you want to leave, I can guarantee, you won’t find nobody else like me and > [@](#): > > You cant turn around and say goodbye A threat/reference to being addicted, unable to get off it. The line about being guilty. As in feeling guilty about being addicted to heroin. > [@](#): > > I won’t give you money I can’t give you the sky > Your better off if you don’t ask why Making a point that when you’re addicted to drugs, you don’t really go anywhere (lose money, etc.) I can see your version of it, too. I guess it’s one of those times where it can be interpreted either way. I don’t know how Uncle Kracker intended it, but whatever…🙂 ---
**Author:** ![red\_dragon60](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ce73a5/32.png) [@red\_dragon60](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/red_dragon60)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2002, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kidz-bop-must-be-stopped/105825/14 "2002-04-27T21:13:48Z")
That’s exactly how I interpreted Follow Me as a song about heroin. And Chipmunk Punk kicks royal ass. Alvin could beat up Henry Rollins any day! ---
**Author:** ![BoBettie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@BoBettie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoBettie)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2002, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kidz-bop-must-be-stopped/105825/15 "2002-04-27T21:28:36Z")
Follow Me discussion taken up here: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=112011](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=112011) ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2002, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kidz-bop-must-be-stopped/105825/16 "2002-04-27T21:50:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by BiblioCat \* > \*\*In the _Rugrats In Paris_ movie, Angelica sings the song “Bad Girls”, and there was a toy tie-in, a doll that sang it, too, a karaoke-like thing with a microphone so that the little kid could sing along with her. > > Uh, do you suppose anyone realized that song was about freaking **HOOKERS?!?** \*\* _Entertainment Weekly_ had pointed this out, and talked to the producers of the film about it, who mentioned that they changed the lyrics for the film to make it about troublemaking kids-which I think is the type of “bad girl” Angelica is.