Your Kids Doing the Soulja Boy Dance

[babieemelly]

It may be happening everywhere but it's not happening in my house. And amazingly enough - my daughter doesn't feel tragically deprived because she doesn't listen to this crap.

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

 

[Papa Deuce]

I'm sure there are plenty of people who are happy with that, and others who wouldn't be. If I hired a DJ, I'd expect him/her to play what I requested.

I wouldn't have you as a customer. I turn down parties ALL the time if this is what the client wants. In fact, they even initial my contract stating that this is my policy and that they agree to it.

 

[Papa Deuce]

Did I say that She Bop was anywhere close to this song? No. I don't think so. And I never said I think the song was OK.

But you said you like to dance to it, so that pretty much implies it.

 

[graygables]

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???

 

[Cindy B]

Sexually explicit songs have been around for ages.

Chuck Berry's Ding A Ling-well, he isn't talking about a bell.

I read a book about that song, and Berry said that he wanted to perform an explicit song to shake the crowd up. By today's standards, its nothing!

Remeber Elvis's hips could not even be shown.

Tons of stuff in the 60's. Light my Fire the Doors. Rolling Stones (early stuff).

70s. All kinds of stuff-- AC/DC to some disco tunes.

80s.

Sometimes When We Touch (ok, that could be late 70s)
Sugar Walls sheena Easton
Darling Nikki Prince
Physcial Olivia Newton John
Whip It Devo
She Bop
Girls Girls Girls
Like A Virgin

Early Rap
Anything by 2 Live Crew
Baby Got Back (Sir Mix a Lots talks about his anaconda!)


90s (I'm not too familiar )

Theres that one Green Day song about ************

Madonnas whole Erotica album



Case in point, Soulja boy is not the first or the last song with sexual content. Kids will be singing it as long as it played. There will be dances to it as well. I remember doing a dance to Depeche Mode's Personal Jesus.. Some say that song was about ************.

The songs will be out there. I'm sure as a parent you sang a Madonna song, or a Rolling Stones song, AC/DC , etc.... It would be hyprocritical for me to tell my kids to turn it off. When I was my daughters age, Physical came out.. everyone loved that song. When I was my sons age, Purple Rain was released. Everyone played that album until it wore off.

It's nothing new.

 

[The Mystery Machine]

I just listened to the Spongebob version. Yep, that is pretty nasty.

As far as the guy's video, I understand why he did it. It is pretty gross to see kids dancing to it.

At least with sex, it is sex. This is about demeaning a women with sex.

 

[JunieJay]

Old news

Most of the kids I know doing the dance fall into one of two groups

Group 1 has no idea what the lyrics are or what they mean. They just like the beat and the dance.

Group 2 knows what the song means, but it's nothing they haven't heard before. They also like the beat and the words.

This isn't the first song with questionable/suggestive lyrics and it won't be the last.

MTE. No biggie as far as I'm concerned. My kids know the dance, and taught it to me. Its actually quite fun.

 

[Tantor]

It has a great beat and the kids like the actions. The more people make a fuss about it the more attention it will get.
Have you listened to any of the stuff from the 70's and 80's lyrics. Some of that was questionable too.

 

[Nikel]

But you said you like to dance to it, so that pretty much implies it.

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?

 

[mikess]

I know that this is "old news" & there are a lot of other songs worse than this one. Heck, I listened to 2 Live Crew in High School. The problem I have with this song is the use of kids in the video and the marketing to kids.

 

[The Mystery Machine]

I guess I can say that it reminds me of Billy Squier "Stroke Me" taken to the next level.

 

[va32h]

Case in point, Soulja boy is not the first or the last song with sexual content. Kids will be singing it as long as it played. There will be dances to it as well. I remember doing a dance to Depeche Mode's Personal Jesus.. Some say that song was about ************.

The songs will be out there. I'm sure as a parent you sang a Madonna song, or a Rolling Stones song, AC/DC , etc.... It would be hyprocritical for me to tell my kids to turn it off. When I was my daughters age, Physical came out.. everyone loved that song. When I was my sons age, Purple Rain was released. Everyone played that album until it wore off.

It's nothing new.

I do think it's something new -- there are some song that use clever wordplay -- case in point the Beatles " Please Please Me" which I would have no problem with my kids listening to (or the entire Beatles catalog for that matter).

And there are songs that are just plain graphically nasty and don't pretend to be otherwise. Any song that repeatedly refers to women as "hos" is just not going to be played in my car or my house, period.

And I know that my kids will probably hear it other places - like school dances or friends' houses. But I am not going to just throw up my hands and conclude that there is no point having any standards because garbage is nothing new.

Drugs, underage drinking and 13 year olds having sex is nothing new either, but that doesn't mean I'm not going to at least attempt to share my values on those subjects with my kids.

I didn't even have to "ban" Soujah Boy from my house - my daughter doesn't like that kind of music and when they played it at her school dance she said it gave her a headache. It's not like I have a big giant list of banned songs. We listen to Radio Disney in the car and I don't buy those CD's so it just never comes up.

 

[Cindy B]

I guess I can say that it reminds me of Billy Squier "Stroke Me" taken to the next level.

I thought it was Strokin'. I remember singing that at a middle school dance back in 1981.

I'm reminded of a Smiths song that I loved in high school. It was called Wheel Around the Fountain... and its well, not about a fountain!
I got a Smiths compilation on my Ipod the other day, and I carefully listened to the lyrics... it is pretty raunchy!

How about George Micheals I want your Sex, or Frankie's Relax (ever watch that video-- I need to wash my eyes out after that video--at least the European version_)

 

[dhcoffey]

All right, have you seen the Pooh Bear version? Cracks me up every time.

Heather

 

[JunieJay]

Some of the songs that were popular when I was a teen didn't even bother to be subtle. One song that comes to mind is Eric Clapton's "Cocaine". That was a hit song, everyone loved it, and no one was complaining about it. Didn't make me want to go out and DO cocaine, but I still liked the song.

I'd never censor the music my kids listen to, or the books they read. My parents felt the same way. I turned out o.k. (for the most part ).

 

[JunieJay]

Wow. I just attempted to watch that youtube link. That guy is 100 times more annoying that Soulja Boy, imo. Talk about long winded.

 

[L107ANGEL]

Wow. I just attempted to watch that youtube link. That guy is 100 times more annoying that Soulja Boy, imo. Talk about long winded.

I thought the same thing!

 

[Steffi]

It took that guy far too long to explain the lyrics. Surely that could have been summed up in under a minute.

 

[LindsayDunn228]

I'm shocked the link to the youtube video hasn't been deleted my the mods.

 

[Acklander]

I don't know why, but after reading this thread I had the urge to watch "Footloose".

Anyway, much more entertaining is Bill Maher when he did a translation of a couple of rap songs into English. I'm going to have to google and see if I can find a link to it.