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KIDZ BOP IS THE BEST HUSTLE EVER
Panama Jackson, 8/1/16
For a vast many people who haven’t put birth control to the test (and failed), Kidz Bop isn’t a thing. If you don’t have children, there’s literally zero reason to know of its existence. But for a lot of us with kids old enough to comprehend, process and regurgitate what they hear, the music struggle is real, especially those of us who are hip-hop and R&B heads. Pretty much 175 percent of the music I grew up listening to, created after 1992, is too suggestive for my 7-year-old daughter’s innocent ears. For musical stylings, this leaves very few options.
Look, we all love our kids, we do. But we’d also like them to not entirely usurp our lives, especially the music we know and love.
Enter Kidz Bop. Created in 2001 to clearly capitalize on the pain of parents everywhere, it started as a few dudes re-creating pop songs, terribly. It’s evolved into, in 2016, a group of kids re-creating pop songs, sometimes even better than the originals. And, sometimes, horrendously worse than the original. Of course, the key component of Kidz Bop is that it can take songs that are more adult in nature, reinterpret them with different lyrics where necessary, get some kids to sing the songs, rebrand it under Kidz Bop and have your impressionable youth singing along to innocent versions of songs that are naughty in real life.
And to that end, Kidz Bop is like the best hustle ever. See, while they tend to change the most egregious words, they still currently leave in a lot of the context. Thing is, if you’re a parent who can hear a song without listening to the words – it is pop music after all – now you REALLY don’t have to listen to the words. Right? Kidz Bop has to be for the children, right? Wrong. Listen, there is absolutely NO reason why Meghan Trainor’s “Dear Future Husband”, a song that echoes the refrain about being a crazy woman that a man should just accept, or Andy Grammer’s “Honey I’m Good” should be adapted for children. But they have been along with TONS of other questionable ass songs in real life where changing a word here or there only makes them less questionable with ‘tweens singing them now.
Kidz Bop has expanded to world tours, albums and even started making its own original compositions. In short, Kidz Bop is out here winning. And since I’m a parent of a 7-year-old who actually said to me, “Wow, Daddy, this Kidz Bop 32 album is actually really good” and meant it, I’m stuck with Kidz Bop. Which means that I’ve started listening to these songs differently. Which means I’ve noticed that, while grating at times, these Kidz Bop kids have actually remade quite a few songs better than the original. It’s true; oh yeah, it’s true.
Here are eight songs that Kidz Bop has made better than the original.
Kidz Bop Is The Best Hustle Ever | VSB
Panama Jackson, 8/1/16
For a vast many people who haven’t put birth control to the test (and failed), Kidz Bop isn’t a thing. If you don’t have children, there’s literally zero reason to know of its existence. But for a lot of us with kids old enough to comprehend, process and regurgitate what they hear, the music struggle is real, especially those of us who are hip-hop and R&B heads. Pretty much 175 percent of the music I grew up listening to, created after 1992, is too suggestive for my 7-year-old daughter’s innocent ears. For musical stylings, this leaves very few options.
Look, we all love our kids, we do. But we’d also like them to not entirely usurp our lives, especially the music we know and love.
Enter Kidz Bop. Created in 2001 to clearly capitalize on the pain of parents everywhere, it started as a few dudes re-creating pop songs, terribly. It’s evolved into, in 2016, a group of kids re-creating pop songs, sometimes even better than the originals. And, sometimes, horrendously worse than the original. Of course, the key component of Kidz Bop is that it can take songs that are more adult in nature, reinterpret them with different lyrics where necessary, get some kids to sing the songs, rebrand it under Kidz Bop and have your impressionable youth singing along to innocent versions of songs that are naughty in real life.
And to that end, Kidz Bop is like the best hustle ever. See, while they tend to change the most egregious words, they still currently leave in a lot of the context. Thing is, if you’re a parent who can hear a song without listening to the words – it is pop music after all – now you REALLY don’t have to listen to the words. Right? Kidz Bop has to be for the children, right? Wrong. Listen, there is absolutely NO reason why Meghan Trainor’s “Dear Future Husband”, a song that echoes the refrain about being a crazy woman that a man should just accept, or Andy Grammer’s “Honey I’m Good” should be adapted for children. But they have been along with TONS of other questionable ass songs in real life where changing a word here or there only makes them less questionable with ‘tweens singing them now.
Kidz Bop has expanded to world tours, albums and even started making its own original compositions. In short, Kidz Bop is out here winning. And since I’m a parent of a 7-year-old who actually said to me, “Wow, Daddy, this Kidz Bop 32 album is actually really good” and meant it, I’m stuck with Kidz Bop. Which means that I’ve started listening to these songs differently. Which means I’ve noticed that, while grating at times, these Kidz Bop kids have actually remade quite a few songs better than the original. It’s true; oh yeah, it’s true.
Here are eight songs that Kidz Bop has made better than the original.
- Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, “Downtown”; Kidz Bop version
- A Great Big World, “Say Something”; Kidz Bop version
- Wiz Khalifa featuring Charlie Puth, “See You Again”; Kidz Bop version
- Flo-Rida, “My House”; Kidz Bop version
- Flo-Rida, “GDFR”; Kidz Bop version
- Daya, “Hide Away”; Kidz Bop version
- Drake, “Hotline Bling”; Kidz Bop version
- Meghan Trainor, “Lips Are Moving”; Kidz Bop version
Kidz Bop Is The Best Hustle Ever | VSB
