To rap-style??? (A friend at work told me this). Now please don’t misunderstand me: I like some rap music (Funky Cold Medina comes to mind), but some things are better left alone and the theme from Sesame Street in my opinion is one. There is something very sweet about those slightly off-key youngsters singing the theme, and as my American grandmother used to say, “I ain’t havin’ it!”
I’m gonna watch the next new episode, and if it’s true, I’m writing 'em a letter. Any of y’all with me on this one?
Don’t feel bad. I had the same reaction. But you know what? It’s not rap. Not really, anyway.
They have also re-vamped the Canadian version. It is now called “Sesame Park” and it’s only a half hour long. I’m so glad my son doesn’t watch it anymore.
I don’t like Sesame Park. It’s only purpose seems to be differentiating Zee from Zed. No Burt or Ernie. No Big Bird. I liked it better when they added Canadian segments on the US version. I usually put the US version on instead for my kids.
We haven’t watched in a couple of weeks or so. I’ll have to check out the new theme song pretty soon.
I watched an episode of Sesame Street a few weeks ago, and I gathered that their key demographic is now urban children. I guess the new music is a way to be hipper, too. I mean, what’s hipper than hip-hop?
Jeez, Beagle! You could have warned me that that link was to a white supremacist website. Now I’ve got god knows what kind of cookies, and the thing’s in my history file. That’s really inconsiderate.
Yeah, Beagle! That will teach me to click on a link without reading the whole thread (if the university checks my machine, between this and the dolphinsex.org page, i may be in trouble!)
NEWSFLASH* Sydney, Australia*. The Sesame St song seems to have gone back to the classic 70s one. I put it on this morning for my stepson, and there it was. WOOHOO!
Just a nitpick here … Sesame Street’s target audience has ALWAYS been urban children. Joan Ganz Cooney’s original idea was for a show that would help underprivileged inner-city children without access to preschool prepare for school.
Whether or not it has achieved its goal is open to debate, but that’s been its major mission always.
