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I swear I'm not a pearl clutcher but slightly shocked at the amount of little girls at the Sabrina concert

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Ethicaldebacle · 06/07/2025 08:18

I was at Sabrina's concert at Hyde Park yesterday and a good segment of the audience were little girls think between 8-12). Not only are most of the lyrics not really age appropriate but many of them were wearing hot pants and make up. Even my teenage daughter (who I was accompanying) thought it was a bit odd. The show was very PG (and there was a parental guidance disclaimer), so at least she's aware of who listens to her music.

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Aspanielstolemysanity · 06/07/2025 15:48

PersephonePomegranate · 06/07/2025 15:45

But it's not just the sexual references that go over their heads, her songs are expletive ridden! Every song contains the work 'fuck' at least once!

Oh no ! A swear word <gasps>

My daughter isnt going to go into meltdown and become a delinquent because she heard a naughty word.

PreciousMomentsHun · 06/07/2025 15:48

Aww. I was 8 when I was screaming " we don't need no water let the mother fucker burn!" and "if you wanna be my lover" and "I would twist my knife and bleed my aching heart."

Kids sing songs and laugh at jokes they don't get. Who gives a shit.

That said, I find parents who dress their prepubscent kids in hot pants, bralets, bikinis, thongs, stripper heels etc weird as fuck and I can never shake that.

PersephonePomegranate · 06/07/2025 15:47

Mushybut · 06/07/2025 15:41

“Like a virgin, touched for the very first time”

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My give a fucks are on vacation
Fuck my life

Slight difference?

Aspanielstolemysanity · 06/07/2025 15:47

Batbrown · 06/07/2025 09:34

I was listening to the Spice Girls singing about putting a condom on during sex when I was 7 and I turned out fine.

Which song is that Shock

Song lyrics clearly go right over my head!

I was a tween when Madonna was at her peak and cheerily sang along to "like a virgin" and if I thought about the lyrics at all I think I just assumed she meant like "the virgin Mary" and I wasn't too sure what that meant either, so I just sang along obliviously

Cattery · 06/07/2025 15:45

Think yourselves lucky. We had Gary Glitter 🤢

PersephonePomegranate · 06/07/2025 15:45

But it's not just the sexual references that go over their heads, her songs are expletive ridden! Every song contains the work 'fuck' at least once!

Aspanielstolemysanity · 06/07/2025 15:44

My daughter Iikes Sabrina. She listens to the music on Spotify. She hasn't been to a concert.
I don't think she understands half the words so I am not very worried about the content
She also plays with dolls and Lego and likes colouring in and climbing trees and having water fights

Yabu to assume you know everything about a childhood based on a snapshot in time

Batmanisaplaceinturkey · 06/07/2025 15:44

Ethicaldebacle · 06/07/2025 08:18

I was at Sabrina's concert at Hyde Park yesterday and a good segment of the audience were little girls think between 8-12). Not only are most of the lyrics not really age appropriate but many of them were wearing hot pants and make up. Even my teenage daughter (who I was accompanying) thought it was a bit odd. The show was very PG (and there was a parental guidance disclaimer), so at least she's aware of who listens to her music.

You are not allowed to think this!
Children must be encouraged to be sexual from an early age. If you don't believe that you're a prude blah blah.
Sarcasm obviously.
Patriarchy rules. Sabrina is just another tool for it.

ShesTheAlbatross · 06/07/2025 15:43

Mushybut · 06/07/2025 15:41

“Like a virgin, touched for the very first time”

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I think that’s pretty tame compared to “come right on me”.

Mushybut · 06/07/2025 15:41

Batbrown · 06/07/2025 09:58

Nothing ever changes. Kids will like things they don’t understand and older people will moan.

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Some will moan ie the op (and her teen daughter)

Mushybut · 06/07/2025 15:41

PersephonePomegranate · 06/07/2025 15:40

Have you actually heard the content of her lyrics?! Not child friendly at all!

I like her music and think her lyrics are funny, but they're not appropriate for that age range, which is tricky as it sounds like bubblegum pop which kids are attracted to.

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“Like a virgin, touched for the very first time”

Mushybut · 06/07/2025 15:40

Even 2 years old were welcomed!!

I swear I'm not a pearl clutcher but slightly shocked at the amount of little girls at the Sabrina concert
PersephonePomegranate · 06/07/2025 15:40

MonteStory · 06/07/2025 08:21

Wait little girls like pop music?!

Have you actually heard the content of her lyrics?! Not child friendly at all!

I like her music and think her lyrics are funny, but they're not appropriate for that age range, which is tricky as it sounds like bubblegum pop which kids are attracted to.

Rallentanda · 06/07/2025 15:39

I remember being that age and the absolute glamour is what I loved. Madonna was like catnip because we could dress up like her. So was Boy George, come to that. Debbie Harry was my childhood idol. I couldn't give a stuff what the songs were about, it went over my head. To be laughed at in later years!

Rallentanda · 06/07/2025 15:37

Ethicaldebacle · 06/07/2025 10:12

I'm from the Britney times and she was sexy, but at least the first albums were not really sexual. (Maybe I'm a slave 4 u) And yes there was the kiss between her and Madonna etc .. but that was for an older audience and AFAIK didn't do it at her concerts

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Hit Me Baby One More Time was literally about getting fucked!

ShesTheAlbatross · 06/07/2025 15:35

AstonUniversityPotholeDepartment · 06/07/2025 15:05

Whaaaaaaat! Which one was that? I never noticed.

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Be a little bit wiser baby
Put it on, put it on
'Cause tonight is the night when two become one

purpleme12 · 06/07/2025 15:14

I definitely remember me and my sister singing 'i wanna have sex on the beach'
I would have been 12 sand by sister would have been 10
I distinctly remember us singing it in the car and mum going 'ugghh that's so vulgar do you have to sing that' 😆

Mumjaro · 06/07/2025 15:10

Smoothout · 06/07/2025 08:40

“Like a virgin, touched for the very first time”

I recall singing this at the top of my voice as a very young girl in the early nineties

Late 90s, aged 7/8/9ish, we were all singing ‘I wanna have sex on the beach’, just as all the parents were collecting from my friend’s bday party 😆 actually happened a couple of years in a row, that family loved that song! I remember at the time thinking it was pretty inappropriate and I was under 10! Same friend I had to explain what ‘I’m horny, horny horny horny’ meant a couple of years later so I think her parents just felt safe thinking every kid was cluelessly naive!!

As a parent now I definitely feel uncomfortable about kids being at Sabrina Carpenter, IDGAF if that makes me a pearl clutcher 🤷‍♀️

AstonUniversityPotholeDepartment · 06/07/2025 15:05

Batbrown · 06/07/2025 09:34

I was listening to the Spice Girls singing about putting a condom on during sex when I was 7 and I turned out fine.

Whaaaaaaat! Which one was that? I never noticed.

MiloMinderbinder925 · 06/07/2025 15:04

I was just reading a review and apparently this concert was toned down. It's well known that she's very sexual, simulates sex and wears lingerie on stage.

Mushybut · 06/07/2025 14:55

Ethicaldebacle · 06/07/2025 10:12

I'm from the Britney times and she was sexy, but at least the first albums were not really sexual. (Maybe I'm a slave 4 u) And yes there was the kiss between her and Madonna etc .. but that was for an older audience and AFAIK didn't do it at her concerts

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The first albums weren’t sexy??!

oh op

Either way my only contribution is stop passing on this kind of judginess to your 14 yr old!

Bananalanacake · 06/07/2025 10:35

I'm thinking of the Sabrina who sang 'boys, boys, boys,' the video was pretty racy, or is this someone else?

Zezet · 06/07/2025 10:29

I grew up loudly and blissfully obliviously singing all kinds of songs including some VERY explicit ones.

Meh.

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Ethicaldebacle · 06/07/2025 10:12

pollytunnelanna · 06/07/2025 09:58

What about the young girls who were obsessed with Madonna or Britney? It’s not something new

I'm from the Britney times and she was sexy, but at least the first albums were not really sexual. (Maybe I'm a slave 4 u) And yes there was the kiss between her and Madonna etc .. but that was for an older audience and AFAIK didn't do it at her concerts

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dairydebris · 06/07/2025 10:11

Jellycatspyjamas · 06/07/2025 10:04

That’s been the case for all of time in terms of sexual references in music. The thing that’s shifted the goalposts is unlimited online access to material much more sexualised than anything you’ll find at a pop concert.

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Really? For 8 year olds? So glad I grew up when I did ( and find it very difficult to work out what's best for my young ones )