To raise it with the school as my dd 5 is dancing to 'blurred lines' by robin thicke in her after school dance club?

[leolion]

Hi there, I would welcome your views on the above. Just found out that they have been practicing a dance to the above song at my dd's after school dance club (5 to 7 year olds). I am very very uncomfortable with this. I know the children will not understand the underlying message of the song, but I still find it wrong on so many levels.

I will likely upset a few people as the dance teacher is a mum at the school, and she is otherwise, a great and popular teacher. I know I could withdraw my dd from the dance class but it just seems wrong that this song is even playing in a primary school at all.

So am I being unreasonable to raise it with the head?

In my dd's dance club they were all dancing and singing to 'I kissed a girl and I liked it' They were all about 6 - 7 yrs old.

I used enjoy the way DJs assumed Baby Bird's "You're Gorgeous" was a song about, well, thinking your girlfriend is gorgeous.

On the other hand, there was a load of old cobblers when the BBC used that multi-artist version of Lou Reed's song "Perfect Day". A tabloid newspaper speculated that it contained "drug references": some nonsense about a "perfect day" being one when you scored, or something. Nasty old Lou was supposedly writing a coded song about drug use. You did have to ponder why, if he needed to obscure reference to (whisper it) drugs, he'd written, recorded and regularly performed live a song entitled "Heroin" (sample lyric, "'Cause it makes me feel like I'm a man // When I put a spike into my vein"), at some points accompanied by actually shooting up on stage.

Prior to reading this thread I'd only ever heard the radio edit version of the song & pretty much thought it was about a woman who was with a controlling man & the dinger was trying to get her to leave him & go with him instead.

I've not seen the video or read any of this other stuff donuts quite possible the dance teacher is the same

This is my favourite song this year! I think Blurred Lines is catchy, perfect for dancing to and no worse than many current songs with overly suggestive lyrics. The only bit I object to is the rap, it's totally a totally unnecessary addition to the song.

Isn't all rap by the likes of pharrel totally unnecessary?

The only bit I object to is the rap, it's totally a totally unnecessary addition to the song

Modern music today, their hair's not long enough, you can hear all the words, it's rather too easy to tell if they're a boy or a girl, etc.

"Rapey" again?! Seriously WTF?!

Whenever I hear Blurred Lines now I sing the Bart Baker parody instead. 'Cause I'm a scumbag, who think's he's so cool....'. So true! They play Gangham Style at my local soft play but have dubbed 'sexy lady' into 'chips and gravy'. Alwas makes me laugh.
YANBU no child of mine would dance to Blurred Lines.

Erm...what is You're Gorgeous actually about? (Other than Gorgeous The Greyhound from TFI Friday)

what is You're Gorgeous actually about?

Photographing nude women on the bonnets of cars.

You got me to hitch my knees up
And pulled my legs apart
You took an instamatic camera and
And pulled my sleeves around my heart

(...)

You said my clothes were sexy
You tore away my shirt
You rubbed an ice-cube on my chest
Snapped me 'til it hurt

Ah! Thanks...Now I'm hoping "pulled my sleeves around my heart" isn't a euphimism.

I didn't think it was about women, but about two men. Or a man with a female photographer.

On the NOW 45 CD my 11 year old owns, the rap is omitted from the Blurred Lines song - I think it usually is omitted from the Radio version & I am sure it will have been from the version played in school the OP is concerned about.

Without the rap it is a fun, catchy song, with standard 'I want you' type lyrics you can't really hear anyway. I certainly wouldn't complain the the school about it.