Pop music!! What gives with the lude lyrics??? RANT warning.

[Wannabefree]

I don't "let" DD listen to that garbage, but she still does, on the bus, and at school. That crap is everywhere, but I'd presonally rather not hear it. I play Christian music in the car and on the radio.

I listened to some AWFUL songs on the bus when I was a kid too...my mother would probably have a heart attack NOW if she knew I heard some of that crap then, and I'm 34!

I remember all the "devil worship" surge of parents ripping up and burning casettes and breaking radios...which was rather ridiculous, but there is also a really different age of parenting going on there too. It was a bit more of a shcok in contrast to "Purple People Eater" I'd never do that to DD's music, but I will tell her to turn the crap off so I don't have to hear it, and discuss with her how it's horrible taste to put your sex life out for the world to hear about. :/

 

[abifae]

LOL!! I listen to a lot of 80s metal and rock They're blatent enough even *I* get what they are about

In school though, I listened most to hippie music. And classical. I started listening to hard rock and metal when I was about 20.

I wake up to classical music and CPR is the only station I know on the radio (Colorado Public Radio).

For you folk who have trouble finding stations you like, how's the public radio in your area? CPR is classical ONLY. NPR has a lot more shows, like car talk & prairie home companion.

 

[k0xxx]

I just introduced my DD to Muskrat Love......

She said that was the grossest, pervie song.....

When ever I want to aggravate my daughter, I turn up Muskrat Love. She absolutely hates it. Of course, back in High School, I was the same way about Melanie Safka's "I Got A Brand New Pair Of Roller Skates". I hated that song, and my girlfriend (now my wife) loved it.

 

[lwheelr]

So hubby and I used to listen to a lot of music when we first met. All on LPs. Then CDs came out and he could not afford to replace all of them. Went for a long time not listening to some of the stuff we used to listen to.

In the mean time, we've done some maturing, have teens of our own, and we pay attention to the meaning of words - we've gone into marketing for a living, so words now have meanings like they did not before.

Then along comes iTunes, and he starts buying cuts one at a time. And unlike when we were young and senseless, now we are listening to what the words are saying. Suddenly all that "good stuff" just isn't the good stuff we thought it was.

He bought probably 300 or more tunes, and ended up deleting about a third of them. We are still deleting now and again when we run across one that escaped our attention the first time.

The difference between us now, and us then, is that we now only want movies and music in our house that really reflect our values and morals. Pick-ups in bars, teen sex, one night stands, cheating, drinking and drugs, etc, all get scratched.

I do have to explain to my daughter, frequently, that the lyrics in the song she is belting out ("make you go Ah-Ah-Ah", "I kissed a girl just to try it"), just are not appropriate for the person she wants to become.

There's so much GOOD music out there, that is just as fun. Who needs the trash?

 

[colowyo0809]

See this here is the thing. I listen to a wide variety of music. I listen to classical, because it's soothing and great background music, and sounds good. I listen to the old gospel music occasionally, not because I am a born again believer, but because the old gospel music had more life, more feeling, more down-in-the-bones-this-is-how-we-feel-not-poppin-cause-we-need-to-feel-cool music (and I grew up on that stuff). I listen to the pop music because its cheerful. I listen to country because it covers a wide range of feelings and emotions. I listen to the dance/techno/tronica because it gets me movin and shakin. Half the time I'm not even payin attention to the words of the songs, it's all about the beat and the music itself. However, S&M is a good song and I belt out the Chains and Whips every time And yeah, some of the songs from the 50's 60's 70's and 80's weren't exactly the tamest music out there (I still say Balls of Fire was about STD's ) And OMG some of the homoerotic tones on some of those songs?! You won't find that nowadays (mores the pity! )

On a side note, how does she know she won't like kissing a girl if she doesn't try it? That's how I knew I didn't like it

 

[DrakeMaiden]

LOL This thread cracks me up.

Let me first say that I totally understand why you are upset, BBH. I think I would be upset too . . . especially if I had a young impressionable teenage daughter.

I went through it too as a kid. The classic rock, sure, heavy metal, yeah, but that is pretty tame stuff. I'm afraid I'll be dating myself here, but I got into the early really nasty rap when I was barely a teenager. Those lyrics that used to spew out of my mouth were pretty bad. I had friends who were equally into the stuff and I was thinking the other day that I couldn't believe how we would say certain things and not think at all about how we were degrading our own femininity. I think I blushed thinking about it. We were just silly teenagers. The music wasn't even popular at that point, so I can't explain it as a behavior intended to raise my popularity level. I think maybe I can only explain it as cathartic and maybe wanting to be older than we were? I don't know, but I'm just glad I wasn't alone in the stupidity. And fortunately I never dated any guys that were into that trash.

Of course, I did hear that something like 80% of 12 year olds have been exposed to chlamydia . . . or some other STD . . . I don't remember exactly. But I was a little taken aback by that statistic.

 

[Wifezilla]

And OMG some of the homoerotic tones on some of those songs?! You won't find that nowadays

Like the rude awakening I got when I watched the Billy Squire "Stroke Me" and "Take me in your arms" videos a few years back after not seeing it for 20 years?



I have pretty good gaydar for a straight chick. I have NO CLUE how I missed that one

 

[patandchickens]

You know, I think it boils down to the same thing it did when we were kids. You can disapprove of music as much as you want but unless you raise your kid in a soundproof cave they're going to hear it *somewhere*, although they may not understand nearly as much of it as you fear <g>. But IMHO what you need to worry about is not so much what they are *hearing* as what they are *thinking and doing*.

So, it's our parental responsibility to try to convince them that *not* everyone is "doing it" (for any various values of "it"), that "it" is not always what it's cracked up to be, and can be less socially-helpful than it might seem at the time.

Pat

 

[miss_thenorth]

For me, that pretty much sums it up.(what Pat said, in case someone posts before I do) My kids know, b/c we talk about it, and KNOW what is not acceptable. I listened to crap growing up and turned out ok. My choice of music may have influenced me to a certain extent, or who I was may have lead me to a certain type of music. but good parenting accounts for alot. Disapproval works, even if not immediately. What I was thinking and doing was not even close to what my parents had nightmares about.As appalling as todays music is, it is all in the parenting. (IMO)

 

[country freedom]

Doesn't anyone remember that song that Eric Clapton sung? About "coke"?
I knew the entire song - and I was a ultimate GoodyTwoShoes.

The Joker - by The Steve Miller Band

Tunnel O Love - by Fleetwood Mac, Stevie Nicks
Big Love - by Fleetwood Mac

Afternoon Delight - by Starlight Band?

I could name more, but I will stop here.

Seriously - I was a ultimate GoodyTwoShoes!