Do you let your little ones listen to music with "naughty" lyrics?

Brain of J.Lo
Brain of J.Lo Posts: 3,259
edited April 2008 in All Encompassing Trip
The reason I ask is that my daughter (22 months) ONLY and ALWAYS wants to listen to Appetite for Destruction. :D She asks for it all the time, and actually gets annoyed when I try to play something else. I wouldn't exactly describe the lyrics as wholesome, ;) but I know she doesn't understand most of them so it doesn't really matter...yet.

So...do you censor what your kid listens to, or do you just let them listen to whatever?
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  • Gremmie95
    Gremmie95 Posts: 749
    I censor to an extent (turn the volume down when an F bomb is coming). My two are 12 and 9. I will let the little ones (damn, hell) slip through, they are hearing it anyway at school, but I don't condone the F bomb.
  • urbanhippie
    urbanhippie Posts: 3,007
    It depends really.. My 3 and 5 year old love Pantera.. they don't really know the lyrics, they kinda make up nonsense that sounds similar.

    If the lyrics are really clear and repeatetive(sp?) I might avoid it...only because of past experience of standing in a supermarket queue with 4 yr old singing RATM...(fuck you, won't do what you tell me :o).

    So I guess the answer is yes.... and no... :)
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  • jackrabbit slim
    jackrabbit slim Posts: 565
    All that matters is that your daughter already has great taste in rock. Appetite is one of the best records of all time.
  • NY PJ1
    NY PJ1 Posts: 9,533
    snoop dog from birth :)
  • josevolution
    josevolution Posts: 31,814
    my 14yr old is not even remotely interested in bullshit lyrics cursin and shit my daughter even less i'm glad ...
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  • Get_Right
    Get_Right Posts: 14,168
    No f words for the little ones.

    My 3 yr old son loves heavy metal drummer by Wlico

    there is a line that goes
    "beautiful and stoned"

    We sing
    "Beautiful and snow"
    he hasnt yet noticed the diff.
  • dawng
    dawng Posts: 644
    My 10 yr old daughter loves Nirvana and Alanis Morissette. Alanis has some pissed off albums - and I try to turn down the volume when we get to a "f" word, but she knows it's there as there are times that I don't get to the volume. I don't let her listen to that album when there are friends present (as I don't want to get in trouble with their families!)

    Funny story - she wanted to do a lip synch to a Nirvana song at a school talent contest. I thought, sure, why not? So I asked her what song. She wanted to do "Polly". LOL I had to explain that there were some hidden meanings in that song that weren't appropriate for her fellow elementry school students ;)
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  • GraySaturday
    GraySaturday Posts: 2,878
    My mom always tried to keep us from listening to music with bad words. I remember when I bought Greenday's Dookie as a kid, and my dad took the lyric booklet away. I wasn't deaf.. I guess he thought if I couldn't read it, I couldn't hear it???

    The best part was, my mom talks like a truck driver. I didn't learn any bad words from music. I learned it from her, being stuck in traffic :)
  • markymark550
    markymark550 Columbia, SC Posts: 5,224
    Brain of J.Lo wrote:
    The reason I ask is that my daughter (22 months) ONLY and ALWAYS wants to listen to Appetite for Destruction. :D She asks for it all the time, and actually gets annoyed when I try to play something else. I wouldn't exactly describe the lyrics as wholesome, ;) but I know she doesn't understand most of them so it doesn't really matter...yet.

    So...do you censor what your kid listens to, or do you just let them listen to whatever?
    Please elaborate on what you would want to censor. Is it just not wanting her to hear curse words? Or is it more including not wanting to expose her to the drug, violence, and/or sexual references that are found in some music?
  • Drop The Leash 10
    Drop The Leash 10 Posts: 7,011
    pffffffffffffffft when i was a kid my dad let me listen to about anything.

    i knew the lyrics to satans bed by the time i was 9:D
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    Once I get out of this town


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  • GraySaturday
    GraySaturday Posts: 2,878
    Drop The Leash 10 wrote:
    pffffffffffffffft when i was a kid my dad let me listen to about anything.

    i knew the lyrics to satans bed by the time i was 9:D


    Wasn't that like yesterday?


    ;)
  • GreenTeaDisease
    GreenTeaDisease Posts: 3,359
    If you don't know the full catalog of swear words by second grade, you haven't been going to school.

    I got the first CD player in my house for christmas when I was in 8th grade. I got Appetite to go with it. It had a parental advisory sticker on it. My dad goes "we're going to have a talk about these lyrics." I just laughed and was like "yeah right." Basically my parents didn't really censor any music I listened to as I can recall, but my mum doesn't pick up on bad words or themes in a song (if you've seen the episode of Freaks and Geeks when Lindsay wants to see The Who and her mum is oblivious to the meaning of Squeeze Box, that's my mum). In addition, I usually listened to music alone in my room or with headphones. haha I do remember once in like 2nd grade my friend and I singing "like a virgin" in the car...mum was not pleased.

    btw Jlo- you have a pretty rocking 2 year old if she loves Appetite!
  • Drop The Leash 10
    Drop The Leash 10 Posts: 7,011
    GraySaturday wrote:
    Wasn't that like yesterday?


    ;)
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  • _Crazy_Mary_
    _Crazy_Mary_ Posts: 1,299
    Alot of times when we listen to music with the kids we sing loud over the F bomb and change it to another word:

    "I'm gonna save you for good"

    and

    "can't defend crooked men"

    it works...
    the kids sing so many songs that they hear and at awkward times... for example at the dinner table sometimes my 3 year old will just come out with, "loosen up my buttons, babe..."
    I really screwed that up. I really Schruted it.
  • gabers
    gabers Posts: 2,787
    Get_Right wrote:
    No f words for the little ones.

    My 3 yr old son loves heavy metal drummer by Wlico

    there is a line that goes
    "beautiful and stoned"

    We sing
    "Beautiful and snow"
    he hasnt yet noticed the diff.

    That's cute. Have you seen the Wilco documentary for the making of YHF? There was a scene were tweedy was talking to his young son and asked him what his favorite Wilco song, and that was it.
  • gobrowns19
    gobrowns19 Posts: 1,447
    urbanhippie wrote:
    It depends really.. My 3 and 5 year old love Pantera.. they don't really know the lyrics, they kinda make up nonsense that sounds similar.

    If the lyrics are really clear and repeatetive(sp?) I might avoid it...only because of past experience of standing in a supermarket queue with 4 yr old singing RATM...(fuck you, won't do what you tell me :o).

    So I guess the answer is yes.... and no... :)

    Lol, that's pretty funny.
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  • AmentsChick
    AmentsChick Posts: 6,969
    Yeah, I do...just turn it down when I know the "F" word is coming up. Julia's favorite song is Why Go (cool kid, huh?).
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  • nfanel
    nfanel Posts: 2,558
    AmentsChick wrote:
    Yeah, I do...just turn it down when I know the "F" word is coming up. Julia's favorite song is Why Go (cool kid, huh?).
    you're raising her right. :D
  • AmentsChick
    AmentsChick Posts: 6,969
    nfanel wrote:
    you're raising her right. :D

    That I am. That I am. :)
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  • ladygooddiva
    ladygooddiva Posts: 4,169
    i see it kids will be in contact with even bad lyrics but maybe if they listen and understand we have to talk about meanings for example ..i have no idear if that works;)

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