Your Kids Doing the Soulja Boy Dance

[DramaQueen]

Those are some verrrry explicit lyrics, but when I was like 8-10 years old I was listening to pretty crude pop songs, and I had nooo idea what they meant. Only recently (and I'm 18) did I relaize how sexual the song
"Get Down" by b44 was:

I wanna know, exactly what to do,
So that you'll never get me off of your mind.
Communicate, and I'll go undercover
Gonna make you come tonight,
Over to my house,

If you get down on me, I'll get down on you,
I will do anything that you want me to,
It's a game of give and take to make it through.
So if you get down on me, I'll get down on you tonight.

I'm not the type to change your mind,
If you wanna take it slow.
No pressure to go all the way.
Just to the places we can go

only when i listened to that song recently did i realize how many sexual innuendo's and vulgar ideas were in that song...
and most of the other songs I was listening to when I was little, but I never knew what they were talking about

So though Soulja Boy is an extremely vulgar song...I', sure your kids really realize what it means. (unless kids are much more informed than my friends & I were)

 

[tinkerbelle22]

Everyone at my school does it...but not so much anymore, because it's already a fad that went out. I'm not so good at the dance, but I kind of like the song. But still, my friends and I were discussing at lunch the other day what it meant. We were saying that it's sad how some little kids we know love it, while it has such a sexual meaning. There are other songs and dances like that out there that are so much better for teens and kids. Have you guys heard of the Cupid Shuffle? I LOVE it, and I'm good at it too It's very appropriate, and it has a really cool dance. It hasn't caught on at my school as much as Crank That did, but I think it might. It's kind of like the Cha Cha Slide, but way more fun. So while Soulja Boy is all over the place with explicit content, there's other stuff that is a lot more fun and appropriate that just hasn't caught on!

 

[disneyjunkie]

I read a study today that plays into this. Mind you, this is CHRISTIAN parents.

"Last year, 78% of believers bought DVDs for their children even though 26% of them felt uncomfortable about it. Roughly 60% purchased CDs despite the fact that 33% of them had questions about the content. Just over half (51%) picked up requested magazines, with 31% sensing it wasn't a wise choice. And of the 39% who bought a video game, nearly 46% had misgivings."

what this tells me (along with parents who think nothing of letting little children program their brains and gyrate their bodies to misogynistic "crap") is that, once again, parents are no longer in charge. It goes along with the responses to the recent story about the book, Stop Dressing Your Six Year Old Like a Skank, where the parents abdicated their parental authority to their children and some perverse "designer" somewhere rather than insisting that their little girls look like, you know, LITTLE girls.

Parents need to wake up and pay attention to what the kiddos are listening to, watching, and wearing. This society is boiling the frog, folks, and someone needs to have the chutzpah to stand up and say, "enough". I say it to my own DDs...how about you???

Well, I allow my son to listen to this and tons of other stuff.

Why? Because I believe he has enough common sense not to be influenced by the lyrics of a song.

He knows that the artist gets paid to make him shake his butt. It's my job to instill morals and values.

I'm not looking for musicians, actors, or sports figures to do my job. I believe they are paid to entertain us. Period.

When entertains start to dictate how my son conducts himself and how he interacts with women, then I’ll worry. As long as he’s influenced by the positive role models he interacts with on a day to day basis, then all is well.

What the heck is sexual about the Soulja Boy dance?

I wonder how many parents freaked out 35-40 years ago when this song was released?

http://www.songlyrics.com/song-lyri...laneous/Candy_Licker(xxx_Version)/251629.html

 

[disneyjunkie]

Everyone at my school does it...but not so much anymore, because it's already a fad that went out. I'm not so good at the dance, but I kind of like the song. But still, my friends and I were discussing at lunch the other day what it meant. We were saying that it's sad how some little kids we know love it, while it has such a sexual meaning. There are other songs and dances like that out there that are so much better for teens and kids. Have you guys heard of the Cupid Shuffle? I LOVE it, and I'm good at it too It's very appropriate, and it has a really cool dance. It hasn't caught on at my school as much as Crank That did, but I think it might. It's kind of like the Cha Cha Slide, but way more fun. So while Soulja Boy is all over the place with explicit content, there's other stuff that is a lot more fun and appropriate that just hasn't caught on!

I love the Cupid Shuffle. I saw it for the first time last July in SC. It hasn’t' really caught on here yet, maybe by next summer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExC1oGN5J28

 

[daughter_of_amid_chaos]

An adult saying she/he likes to dance to it is so NOT the same as condoning teens or children listening to the song. Or do you feel it's your duty to censor what adults listen to also?

Apparently he does since he turns down ALL parties where the client wants to choose their own music..and I thought that was the purpose of hiring a DJ..to hear the music you wanted to dance to lol

 

[Mean Queen]

Ain't that the truth! I just found out that song "She Bop" by Cyndi Lauper, (circa 1984) is about ************. I had no idea.

Hey! But it's got a great beat and I like to dance to it.

As long as you dance with someone else, or as the song says, you'll go blind.

I actually have managed to avoid hearing Soulja Boy or seeing the dance. Though I do know many songs that my DD listens to have other meanings. (Pink - U and Ur Hand) She doesn't know the meanings. I still remember as a kid singing Rod Stewart's "Do You Think I'm Sexy" and having no clue what it meant. My parents thought it was hilarious. I am careful about what my DD listens to. But I'm not worried about the hidden meaning in songs, just the obvious ones.

 

[kerrynic78]

That's what I don't understand. A lot of people mention how the lyrics are degrading and disgusting and inappropriate, yet so many people forget to mention how crappy of a song it is in general I'll admit I'm not into hip-hop, I'm a rock girl through and through, but there IS a lot of good hip-hop out there and this is setting the whole genre back a whole lot. The song SUCKS in every sense of the word

 

[The Mystery Machine]

I saw a great movie and in it they talk about how "Our Lips are Sealed" by the Go-Go's is not about keeping secrets.

Now I don't know if that is accurate however I listen to the song in a whole new way almost 26yrs later.

Can you believe THAT song was made 26yrs ago....

 

[Papa Deuce]

An adult saying she/he likes to dance to it is so NOT the same as condoning teens or children listening to the song. Or do you feel it's your duty to censor what adults listen to also?

I feel it is my duty to play what I think is appropriate. You want to listen to songs about the degradation of women, feel free.

 

[Papa Deuce]

Apparently he does since he turns down ALL parties where the client wants to choose their own music..and I thought that was the purpose of hiring a DJ..to hear the music you wanted to dance to lol

Right. You hire a DJ that you see eye to eye on. More potential clients than not are HAPPY when I tell them my policy. And if they aren't, it makes no difference to me. They will find a DJ that will give them everything they ask for.

Every company sets their own standards, I draw mine at playing sexually explicit stuff. Now, that said, I really don't have any problem playing sexually suggestive stuff or non degrading music that references sex. But no way am I playing music that denigrates women in such a way as Crank Dat.

 

[Kath2003]

Everyone listened to sexually explicit lyrics as a child/teenager. As a child, you didn't realise what it was on about - I remember listening to Frankie Goes To Hollywood's "Relax" and singing along - NO IDEA what that was on about at the time

If teenagers know what the lyrics mean, then it's your job as a parent to make sure that three minutes of rap music don't destroy an entire lifetime of morals...they'll hear about it any way, rap music or not.

At least the kids are up and dancing

To the DJ who draws the line at "sexually explicit" music - where do you draw the line? Do you play songs like Gym Class Heroes "Cupid's Chokehold" or is the lyric "Not much of a girlfriend, I never seem to get a lot" crossing your line? What about bands like Destiny's Child which promote independence and self-respect for women, yet in Soldier there's a line which says, "I need a soldier that ain't scared to stand up for me, known to carry big things if you know what I mean...". Fall Out Boy's awesome song Dance Dance announced in the middle, "I only want sympathy in the form of you crawling into bed with me...". There's a lot of regular, mainstream music which I would definitely expect ANY DJ to play, and as a customer I'd find it difficult to know where you draw the line.

 

[Cindy B]

Everyone listened to sexually explicit lyrics as a child/teenager. As a child, you didn't realise what it was on about - I remember listening to Frankie Goes To Hollywood's "Relax" and singing along - NO IDEA what that was on about at the time

If teenagers know what the lyrics mean, then it's your job as a parent to make sure that three minutes of rap music don't destroy an entire lifetime of morals...they'll hear about it any way, rap music or not.

At least the kids are up and dancing

Kath--

I remember watching the UK version of the Relax video on Mtv's 120 minutes--

the US version is just performance concert footage.

Hungry like the wolf is another one! The UK video of that one has topless ladies and some lesbian kissing.

 

[Kath2003]

Kath--

I remember watching the UK version of the Relax video on Mtv's 120 minutes--

the US version is just performance concert footage.

Hungry like the wolf is another one! The UK video of that one has topless ladies and some lesbian kissing.

When I was about 14 I listened to a cover of the Silk song, Freak Me. I knew exactly what I was singing, and it was an awesome song.

UK videos are much more lenient; we'll show pretty much anything and homosexuality isn't particularly taboo in music videos here. Songs like Christiana Aguilera's "Dirrty" and "Beautiful" had videos (and lyrics) which caused outrage in the USA yet they did amazingly well here.

 

[StitchfansJr]

I hate that song.
And the dance.
Everyone at our school is doing it too.

 

[babieemelly]

To the DJ who draws the line at "sexually explicit" music - where do you draw the line? Do you play songs like Gym Class Heroes "Cupid's Chokehold" or is the lyric "Not much of a girlfriend, I never seem to get a lot" crossing your line?

That's originally from Supertramps "Breakfast in America" and it's a greaaaaattt song I love Supertramp! The original's much better than when Gym Class Heroes sampled it... just saying

 

["Got Disney"]

I like to listen to the oldies Rock and Roll station...by oldies I mean Stones, Zeppelin, Bad company, Doors and so on.

When I was younger(am 50) I loved there music and danced to it and sang it. Funny how at that time I paid no attention to the meaning of the words even when singing them it seems to have not crossed my mind.

When I hear them know I can't believe how nasty some of the lyrics are
My parents always said to "Turn off the S***" and I would just turn it down...my Dad called it Hippie Dippie music...

So even though I don't like it and wish they would take the words Ho and N word out of the songs...it still comes down to the beat...

Love songs we ponder to and those songs are for listening to the words and crying to after a break up! We need to worry more about those than the others.

Good moral children will not let that music start them beating woman up or calling them Hos....bad boys and girls hanging with the wrong crowd seem to be more apt to play out the words.

Would be great if they toned it down and in time hopefully that will happen...agree that it needs to

 

[stczt]

Not now that I know all the meanings to the song

 

[disney100666]

the lyrics to this song are like totally gross and everyone knows how to do it and it's so dumb, but I love this video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAEDSXrozAw JB even talked about it in an interview.

 

[swilphil]

Yeah- remember Paradise by the Dashboard Lights?

....Now I'm waiting for the end of time to hurry up and arrive because if I have to spend another minute with you....

 

[gina2000]

I would be lying to you if I told you I cared.

I can remember listening to:

Steppenwolf's "The Pusherman"

Neil Young's "The Needle and the Damage Done"....."I love the needle and I love the man....."

and a host of other druggie lyrics that were explicit. Drug lyrics were an anathema in the 60s and 70s and the music very often didn't have a danceable beat. So we listened to it for shock value. The minute my parents stopped being shocked, we moved on.