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Parental advice

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Parental advice

Postby zill » Sat Oct 15, 2005 3:55 pm

For any of you who have kids, a word of advice.

Please be careful what new wave songs you expose your kids to.

Pre-schooler singing along to Living By Numbers by New Muzik while he plays - COOL!

Breaking into "everybody wang chung tonight" at the mall - NOT SO COOL!
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Postby nowhere girl » Sun Oct 16, 2005 6:02 am

I've had that happen before, too, my kids singing new wave lyrics that I never really thought about but just played the music around them. I remember one of my daughters singing,"Video Killed the Radio Star" at a family gathering when she was around 3. My other daughter sang Erasure songs at preschool while she was coloring. None of these were really as bad as when my oldest daughter sang the lyrics to "The Potty Song"from the Once Upon a Potty video(not NW, just a kid song for potty training)in a crowded college bookstore.[:I]

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Postby SomebodySomewhere » Sun Oct 16, 2005 6:11 am

[quote][i]Originally posted by zill[/i]
For any of you who have kids, a word of advice.

Please be careful what new wave songs you expose your kids to.

Pre-schooler singing along to Living By Numbers by New Muzik while he plays - COOL!

Breaking into "everybody wang chung tonight" at the mall - NOT SO COOL![/quote]

What, so no more playing "88 Lines About 44 Women" for my 5-year-old?
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Postby Crimsor » Sun Oct 16, 2005 7:05 am

[quote][i]Originally posted by SomebodySomewhere[/i]
<br>[quote][i]Originally posted by zill[/i]
For any of you who have kids, a word of advice.

Please be careful what new wave songs you expose your kids to.

Pre-schooler singing along to Living By Numbers by New Muzik while he plays - COOL!

Breaking into "everybody wang chung tonight" at the mall - NOT SO COOL![/quote]

What, so no more playing "88 Lines About 44 Women" for my 5-year-old?
[/quote]

Better stick with Jet Boy Jet Girl!
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Postby Randall Roq » Sun Oct 16, 2005 7:28 am

Anything wrong with turning Japanese? I remember my mother singing that until I explained what it meant....she doesn't sing that one anymore in public. So it works both ways as far as age goes.
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Postby SomebodySomewhere » Sun Oct 16, 2005 7:34 am

[quote]Better stick with Jet Boy Jet Girl![/quote]

Ah, alright. Wait, what about "Lemon Incest?" Is that okay? I mean, I figure that one's safe for the kiddies, because Serge Gainsbourg sang it to his young daughter.
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Postby abacab66 » Sun Oct 16, 2005 7:42 am

Blister in the Sun is a good one too. Heck, I used to sing that one out loud too until I realized just what they were singing about.[:I]
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Postby KYYX4ever » Sun Oct 16, 2005 7:57 am

I better go look up these lyrics you guys just mentioned. My husband asked me recently about the lyrics to "Turning Japanese" meant, and I had no idea what he meant.
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Postby tiger_mn » Sun Oct 16, 2005 8:00 am

[quote][i]Originally posted by Crimsor[/i]
Better stick with Jet Boy Jet Girl!
[/quote]

Well, if you know the French version, and they don't know the French yet.....

Wait, no one should be doing anything French.....

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Postby Randall Roq » Sun Oct 16, 2005 8:25 am

[quote][i]Originally posted by KYYX4ever[/i]
<br>I better go look up these lyrics you guys just mentioned. My husband asked me recently about the lyrics to "Turning Japanese" meant, and I had no idea what he meant.

[/quote]

You won't find the meaning in the lyrics. Turning Japanese refers to the face one makes when performing a certain solo act. The singer misses his girlfriend but he has a picture of her so he's "turning Japanese".
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Postby Moparmark » Sun Oct 16, 2005 9:03 am

Well I would,nt think new wave songs are in the same catagorie as gangsta rap.Hell my kids probably heard Star,Star by the Stones numerous times,but I don,t think they sang it at a mall.
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Postby DearGod » Sun Oct 16, 2005 10:00 am

My kids have done that too me too!
They were so young toddlers...
word to the wise...
toddlers and softcell are a HUGE no no!
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