Just when I thought things couldn't get worse, I was watching Dora The Explorer with my daughter this morning and saw an ad for some kids cd called KidzBop 9. I guess it's a cd with kids singing "hit tunes". And then they did it. They sung part of the Weezer song "Beverly Hills".
Beverly Hills, that's where I want to be
Living in Beverly Hills
I wanted to shove sharp instruments into my ears. That's what I want to hear - 8 year old kids, not only singing a song by one of my favorite bands, but also singing a song about Beverly Hills. Do they understand that the song pokes fun at Beverly Hills? Do they realize that Rivers Cuomo figured this out and now lives in a one-bedroom cruddy apartment because he realized that money doesn't mean anything? And...ahem...do they realize that the video for Beverly Hills was filmed at the Playboy Mansion?
My friends - soon the sun will turn black and the moon blood red. Mark my words - this is the first sign of the Apocalypse.
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I heard it yesterday too! That's pretty crazy. I was sitting on the floor at Jay's parents and all of a sudden I hear a bunch of little voices singing "Beverly Hills that's where I want to be". I looked around to see what they were promoting. CJ was sitting there watching it and Haley came back around the corner to listen to it. I looked up at Jay and said "what the heck, they're startin' from the craddle aren't they?".
The only thing that registers in the minds of the kids is the poppy little chorus. Now if that's not brainwashing I don't know what is.
I thought it was amusing that Entertainment Weekly's review of KidzBop 9 said essentially the same thing that I did:
The songs change but the concept endures—tuneless tykes yelling over lame re creations of recent hits. However aggravating, the Kidz Bop franchise has sold more than 5 million albums since 2001. Not even some of the big names covered with Kidz Bop 9 — including a solo Gwen Stefani and Gorillaz — can boast such numbers. But — to non-8-year-olds, at least — the baffling success of these copykids can only be interpreted as another brain-smelting sign of the apocalypse. Grade: D
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