Do you let your little ones listen to music with "naughty" lyrics?
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The reason I ask is that my daughter (22 months) ONLY and ALWAYS wants to listen to Appetite for Destruction. 
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?
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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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
So I guess the answer is yes.... and no...
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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.
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
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
i knew the lyrics to satans bed by the time i was 9:D
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Wasn't that like yesterday?
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!
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"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..."
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.
Lol, that's pretty funny.
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I would hate for them to listen to something really explicit, but someone saying fuck isn't going to bother me.
Example, Sir Psycho Sexy is not something I will listen to when all my kids are in the room, but Ed saying fuck amongst other lyrics won't bother me.
We are supposed to set examples.Even if they don't understand they still hear it and sometimes repeat it.
Nothing humerous or cute about a 3 or 4 year old blurting out f**k.
is that exactly what I thought I read?"
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