To complain about Gangnam Style for kids

[middleclassdystopia]

Gangnam style(or whatever the hell it's called) has been played at my ds school and my dd pre-school several times at various events over the last year or so.

Okay on one level it's just a pop song, it's catchy and kids that age don't understand the lyrics.

However, whilst i'm no prude, I can't help objecting to my kids singing 'hey sexy lady'

I try to teach equality to my children and I find these lyrics misogynistic.

I feel like complaining, what's wrong with a whole range of other music? Seeing a bunch of 4 year old girls singing this and swaying their hips just seems wrong to me.

how had I missed how dirty some of these songs were as a child? all that time spent making up rude lyrics at school and the originals were already worse than ours!

YANBU OP but not because I have a problem with the 'hey sexy lady' It's just a really irritating song and anything DD(5) hears at school has to be repeated, loudly, at every opportunity.

Frankie Goes to Hollywood's 'Relax' was sung alongside nursery rhymes when I was five. Not in the classroom, mind you...

Did anyone see 'Raised by Wolves' which was on over Christmas?

I was nearly helpless with laughter at the gang of kids in the back of their granddad's car, singing along to The De-vinyls 'When I think about you I touch myself.'

Unfortunately I was up a ladder at the time and I had to cling to the door frame to stop me from going crashing to earth.

I am now at the memory of my HT sidling up to me at a primary disco and asking what the song was so I'd say "I wanna sex you up".

My DC sing "hey sixty matey" and try to mimic the Korean words. A 4yo friend tried to convince DS(2) of the real words but he wasn't having it.

Children are hilarious dancing to it. At softplay discos it comes between Superman and Macarena.

Parents have been complaining about the corrupting effect of popular music since it was the 'invented' in the 1950s.

This one example isn't a particularly bad example. It if it's the one that bothers you, I recommend the Minecraft parody for this one. Sexy piglet doesn't have the same ring, and might help show the difference between the older meaning of 'sexy' and the newer one which is just approbation.

You can't compare Relax though. "When you wanna come" could just mean when you want to come round, kids don't know the sexual innuendo there. "Hey sexy lady" can only mean one thing. If you heard your child singing Relax, you wouldn't say "stop that, it's about wanking you know" and go all Mike Read on them. I fucking hate Gangnam Style for lots of reasons, not just the lyrics, so don't have it in my house.

My friend came over (not in a Frankie Goes To Hollywood way) with her 3 year old daughter a few weeks ago and proudly got her to sing 'I'm sexy and I know it' to me. Silly twat.

You can compare all sorts of other things though.

"Little willie" being a good example from early 1970s

Oh god! Another one here who didn't and has just twigged get Physical by ONJ. The shame!!!!!!!
I honestly thought it was about exercising, you know, healthy living style...

I haven't heard it in years!

I don't think it's any worse than

Right said Fred
Venga boys
Afro man

Etc that was around when I was at school.

I honestly don't think there's any "pure" pop song ever that's been suitable to play at school discos.

Even nursery rhymes have undertones, either raunchy or sexist.

Please, produce a list of songs suitable

My 2 year old has obviously been taking in the words to 'blurred lines' without me knowing. It was on the radio the other day and from the back of the car I suddenly heard 'ah know you wan it' in a little cockney accent, and then the 'tried to domesticate ya' bit followed by fits of giggles!

The problem is it really is so cute as obviously he has no idea of the meaning of the lyrics, but that song is wrong I am going to turn it off now if it comes on again.

Gangnam style doesn't bother me tbh - the kids at my school were obsessed with it last year, and really it was just quite funny!

Blurred lines or most of rihanna's repertoire are a different story....

My favourite song at that age - obviously I had no idea.

Meri Wilson – Telephone Man Lyrics
I went to my apartment on a Monday at one
A-singin' do lolly, lolly shicky bum, shicky bum
Started movin' in it on a Tuesday at two
A-singin' do lolly, lolly shicky do, shicky do
Wednesday at three I called the phone company, singin':
"Hey baby, put a phone in for me"
Thursday at four he came a-knockin' at my door, singin':

"Hey, baby, I'm your telephone man
You just show me where you want it and I'll put it where I can
I can put it in the bedroom, I can put it in the hall
I can put it in the bathroom, I can hang it on the wall
You can have it with a buzz, you can have it with a ring
And if you really want it you can have a ding-a-ling
Because-a hey baby, I'm your telephone man"

Can you believe that? And then he says:

"Now when other fellas call ya tell 'em how it all began"

Well...can you imagine?

My heart began a-thumpin' and my mind began to fly
And I knew I wasn't dealin' with no ordinary guy
So while he was a-talking I was thinkin' up my plan
Then my fingers did the walkin' on the telephone man

Singin' hey lolly, lolly
Hey lolly, lolly
Hey lolly, lolly
Get it any way you can
Right? Ha ha ha, so...

I got it in the bedroom, and I got it in the hall
And I got it in the bathroom, and he hung it on the wall
I got it with a buzz, and I got it with a ring
And when he told me what my number was I got a ding-a-ling

A-singin' hey lolly, lolly
Hey lolly, lolly
Hey lolly, lolly
Just-a doin' my thing

Ha, ha...I've never done anything like this before!

Oh, Afroman, I was living with my dad and I genuinely think he hadn't listened to the lyrics as I sung them. It's a catchy tune sadly.

Agree that Rihanna is a lot worse than Gangnam Style.

I thought of this thread on the way to school as DD sang a song she'd just heard on Jake and the never land Pirates.

She was singing "Hot Hot Lava"

And we got double takes because her version sounded like "hot hot lover"

Thanks Disney junior you bastards.

Of course you can compare Relax... when you want to come - is not the "bad" bit!! "when you want to suck it do it" and "come - but shoot it in the right direction" are not nice lyrics to come out of a child's mouth!!

My favourite thing about this thread has been normaleggy's use of the phrase go all Mike Read on them - really made me

I loved the Telephone Man song when I was younger!

I remember asking my mum what masturbation meant after listening to Darling Nicki, on Prince's Purple Rain album... now that was embarrassing!

I find it a bit weird when my DS's call me sexy lady, but I reassure myself that they don't realise what they're saying, and I shall enjoy winding them up about it when they're older.

YABU...and to say its sexualising kids to dance to Gangam Style is a bit OTT, in my view. I think you're projecting your understanding of the word onto your child. They don't get the full meaning and just sing along. But then I fully admit to probably being out of step with most people as I didn't get all the fuss over Blurred Lines either...

Id like to complain about gangnam style for adults.

My Zumba teacher insists we dance to it. I find the horsey(?) move excruciating.

Op, I agree with you, for DC its a horrid song! I also hate my little 6 year old singing " hey sexy lady"....she has also got it from school parties.

However, they do not understand what they are singing and you cannot stop it! They love it, you just have to ignore it I am afraid! There is lots worse out there...

Bring back Agadoo to the school parties..

...but maybe not Gang Bang...