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Casper likes dancey pop music. I like dancey pop music, too! Go us! But it's stunningly hard to safely navigate Youtube for dancey pop music that is appropriate for not yet 7 year old kids. There's a reason Justin Bieber and Miley Cyrus are popular - in their videos everyone is fully clothed and the booty-popping is at 6 year old appropriate levels, there are no cuss words or overt misogyny in the songs (Party in the USA isn't even about loooooove!, and Baby is pretty respectful about loooove), and it's happy fun times!
So we watched Baby, then Party in the USA, then Single Ladies, then I had to shut down our video-watching, because I couldn't think of anything to go to next that I would be okay with my kid watching. Some people have songs that are okay, but the video is a serious NO. (Telephone, anyone? And most of Gaga, actually. When we do Lady Gaga on Youtube, I look for videos of American service members dancing along. I am not prepared to explain people tied to a bed in their dance panties, or a bikini made of caution tape.) Black Eyed Peas has some songs Casper loves, but there's a line in Boom Boom Pow that I flinch at, and the stripper outfits in I Got A Feeling - no.
Yes, we may yet descend to purchasing one of those records advertised on Nickelodeon, with hit pop songs re-recorded by kids and with the naughty lyrics changed. Sigh.
So we watched Baby, then Party in the USA, then Single Ladies, then I had to shut down our video-watching, because I couldn't think of anything to go to next that I would be okay with my kid watching. Some people have songs that are okay, but the video is a serious NO. (Telephone, anyone? And most of Gaga, actually. When we do Lady Gaga on Youtube, I look for videos of American service members dancing along. I am not prepared to explain people tied to a bed in their dance panties, or a bikini made of caution tape.) Black Eyed Peas has some songs Casper loves, but there's a line in Boom Boom Pow that I flinch at, and the stripper outfits in I Got A Feeling - no.
Yes, we may yet descend to purchasing one of those records advertised on Nickelodeon, with hit pop songs re-recorded by kids and with the naughty lyrics changed. Sigh.
