<< sigh >>
I’m too tired and disgusted to put the energy into a full on pitting of the current situation.
Look, you’re supposed to be adults. Many of you are supposed to be educated adults. No matter how much whining I have from the students or phone calls from parents, I will not be playing Soulja Boy Superman at the next school dance. I know it’s the hottest dance craze. I know “the kids love it”…Do you know what the song is saying? 'Cause I do, and I certainly wouldn’t want my young daughter or son dancing to it.
Please people. Try to investigate what your children are hearing.
“It has a great beat, it has a cute dance, and there aren’t any swear words!!!111”…Yes, I know Mr. and Mrs. Parent Person, now please sit down while I explain “Superman that hoe” and “Supersoak that hoe” for you…
Christ. This is an Elementary School Dance…kindergarten through 5th grade.
:mad: :rolleyes:
This is the part where you’ll all call me mean, horrible, and scream censorship at me…like all the parents have.
Well, I don’t know what that song is about, but I am a teacher and can understand your feelings. Many parents just don’t care to find out what their children are listening to/watching.
Parents are letting their little kids listen to music like that? My friends and I ridicule that song because it’s stupid and disgusting. I like some rap for the fun quotient, like when I’m out partying, but songs like that one suck and are stupid. Too bad they don’t like ‘Independent’ by Webbie, at least that one has a good message (women who don’t rely on men for money).
Mahaloth, the key questionable phrases from the song are the ones I quoted in my post: “Superman that hoe” and “Supersoak that hoe” are both found in urban dictionary.
I have parents mad at me because I won’t let their 6 year old daughters dance to this song. Oh, and I’m a racist, too, for refusing to play this song, because, clearly, not letting someone’s first grade daughter dance to a song about being unwittingly hosed down with semen means I hate minorities.
I agree that the littler kids don’t know (some of the 5th graders do, though, as there was much snickering when they suggested the song in the first place), but a slim few of the parents do know, and once those parents call the school board, I don’t think “well, the little kids don’t know what it really means” will fly with them.
I don’t really care if a parent lets their children listen to it all the time at home, or lets their pee-wee cheerleaders dance to it at the city park, but when it’s my teaching certificate on the line, and I know what it means…the tune changes (pun intended)
I think they shouldn’t play the song because it is really bad rap. The kids don’t know what the words mean, most adults don’t either. But the music is just really really bad. That is reason enough not to let the kids listen to it. Play Kenye or Nas’ softer stuff. Kids love that.
I don’t know the song but I support your decision.
I don’t let my daughter (now 6) listen to that wretched “We all wanna be big rock stars” song because they come right out and say all people desire is owning lots of cars and houses and have sex and do drugs.
I have no problem with traditional classic rock because they were, if not tasteful, at least poetic about it. You don’t often know what the songs about unless you know the lingo or think very carefully about the lyrics.
I’m still finding out what some of these songs are about. It was only a few weeks ago I had an epiphany about Aerosmith’s “Walk this Way.”
I agree, it is a problem. Heck, I learned half of what I knew about sex as a kid from music and pop culture, and my parents never really knew what I was listening to at all. It’s the same thing as a few years ago, when everybody wanted to play that Britney song ‘Slave 4 U’ (or whatever) at school dances. Granted, this is worse.
Perhaps print out the lyrics to this particular song, with the definitions from UD added as footnotes, and just whip a copy at each parent who objects to its exclusion.
What really killed me was at the convenience store one day, this mom (about 21-23) and her small daughter (no older than 3) were shopping, and the kid is singing over and over “Pop, lock, and drop it!” and doing the dance, wiggling her little butt and grinding around. I almost threw up. Sometimes I think that some of these parents know full and damn well what they are exposing their kids to, and just don’t care.
Around here that song is incredibly popular from kindergarten or first grade up to young adult. I only recently read what it really means. The kids don’t know, they like the sound of it and the word Superman probably. However, I can now see that the rumor of what the song really means will make it’s rounds in middle and high school.
