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To think Lady Gaga is not appropriate music for a class of five year olds?

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indiechick · 19/10/2009 13:26

DD1's class are allowed to take in CD's to listen to during tidy up time. And of course she comes home and wants to watch the videos on TV and I know I'm an old fart but I don't think Lady Gaga is an appropriate role model. What's wrong with a bit of classical music, or something innocent like HSM? I'm prepared to get flamed for this, I admit I'm an old fart!

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ObsidianBlackbirdMcNight · 19/10/2009 16:10

worms are creatures that reproduce asexually. Intersex people are people. Comparing them to worms is pretty horrible.

And no, lady gaga does not have a penis! It was an internet rumour that has no truth.

southernbelle77 · 19/10/2009 16:11

My 5yr old dd loves HSM! She's not bothered about the whole boyfriend/girlfriend thing, she just loves the songs. Can't say I'm that bothered about that. She does know some pop songs (not Lady Gaga tho) and some of them I think are not really for her age, but she doesn't really 'get' them, it's just the music she likes.

twirlymum · 19/10/2009 16:11

Why? Why do people hate HSM so much?

TheHeadlessWombat · 19/10/2009 16:13

Because it's crap. The music is inane incredibly annoying pap. The characters are so wholesome they give me cavities and they may be the most irritating people known to man.

GetOrfMoiLand · 19/10/2009 16:15

Lol at this. Yes, old fart. I remember growing up singing Like A Virgin at the top of my voice.

Also, at a school disco that daft song which went 'Alice, Alice...' cue Mrs Barnes running at full speed towards the DJ in her dirndl skirts whilst the hall full of 9 year olds sang at full volume 'who the FUCK is Alice!'

Aint done me no 'arm.

fanjoforthemammaries7850 · 19/10/2009 16:17

It's not just the youngsters you know...i came home the other day and my auntie (in her 70s) was singing "roll me over in the clover" to my DD (3), she did not realise it was rude (until she got to the "roll me over lay me down and do it again" line)!

twirlymum · 19/10/2009 16:19

Only a small part of it is about boyfriends/girlfriends. It is about not following the crowd, but following your dreams. It is about being true to yourself, the main female character is very intelligent, and the spoilt rich one is not the most popular person in school.

I suspect that all you HSM haters have never actually seen it!

GetOrfMoiLand · 19/10/2009 16:20

I remember singing the following at the tender age of 5, with my friends in the school playground whilst we were doing hand claps:

Olly olly olly
Tits in a trolley
Balls in a biscuit tin.
Sitting on the grass
With a finger up your arse
Playing with your ding a ling a ling.

Ah, the joys of a Devon childhood . God only knows where we picked that up from.

TheHeadlessWombat · 19/10/2009 16:20

I had the misfortune of seeing it a few weeks ago when babysitting a friend's dd. Never again, my ears still haven't recovered from the 'music' it inflicted upon them.

TheHeadlessWombat · 19/10/2009 16:22

I soothe myself with sweet thoughts of feeding the entire HSM cast through an industrial shredder.

twirlymum · 19/10/2009 16:23

But it's not aimed at you though, is it.

TheHeadlessWombat · 19/10/2009 16:23

No but that doesn't mean it isn't shit.

GetOrfMoiLand · 19/10/2009 16:24

Twirly - one of my most regretful moments of motherhood was accompanying DD to HSM in the cinema where there was no escape. Is more disturbing than Hostel imo.

At least when she puts crap like Suite Life of Zach and Cody and other assorted nonsense on the telly I can leave the room.

twirlymum · 19/10/2009 16:27

So......you don't like Zac Efron?

Disclaimer- I am not talking about HSM 1 or 2, but HSM 3, when he has....matured

TheHeadlessWombat · 19/10/2009 16:28

No. Doesn't do a thing for me. Not my type at all.

GetOrfMoiLand · 19/10/2009 16:28

OOoh no he is too pretty.

DD has a pic of Zac (bare chested) on her bedroom wall, and I have looked at it in a considering way, but naaah, too young and wholesome looking.

That Twilight chap (the american Indian one) now he is lovely.

TheHeadlessWombat · 19/10/2009 16:29

However I think that if his vocal cords were removed then I'd like him much more than I do now.

Spidermama · 19/10/2009 16:30

My four year old is singing along to his favourite - Boom Boom Pow. His big sister bought the CD and so he learned the sweary version before I could intervene. He knows all the words and dances to it brilliantly. It has enhanced his life and was the musical soundtrack to most of his summer holidays.

Actually, I don't mind. It's all art. It's all expression. He'll learn soon enough. I just make sure to tell him that these words are 'bad' and many people find them rude and upsetting.

I'm far more relaxed about bad language now I have four kids, because it would be impossible to keep it out of our lives and in the end it's not so awful. It's not violence or stealing after all.

katiepotatie · 19/10/2009 16:31

Our 2.5 yr DD loves all music, including Lady Ga Ga, she also likes Metalica and Kings of Leon. We are happy for her to listen to all kinds of music....she also love nursery ryhmes too. Personally, I'm dreading the thought of her wanting HSM though

Spidermama · 19/10/2009 16:31

High School Musical is looked upon less favourably in this house because of a total lack of any artistic merit. Fortunately none of my kids likes it anyway.

twirlymum · 19/10/2009 16:34

katiepotatie- so you're quite happy for your dd to sing 'your sex is on fire' but not to see a squeaky clean kids movie

TheHeadlessWombat · 19/10/2009 16:37

I'm not Katie but I've more problems with squeaky clean utter pap devoid of any artistic merit, as SM said, than I have with children hearing songs written by talented musicians about sex, drugs and rock and roll.
I'm not a KOL fan though.

Sourdough · 19/10/2009 16:39

For the record, it's this sex is on fire.

And nobody has enlightened me about the words to that HSM song. Obviously she doesn't sing 'it makes me better in bed', but WTF does she sing?

Answers on a postcard

twirlymum · 19/10/2009 16:46

Sourdough- 'All things fabulous, that is my simple request'

wannaBe · 19/10/2009 17:11

the Lilly Allen one does obv have a radio edit which leaves out the words in the second verse about lying in the wet patch and giving "head" but still "you've never made me scream..."

but then the kids in ks2 dance and sing happily to "I kissed a girl and I liked it,"

I think the songs are fine in themselves as played on the radio etc, but I was a bit about Lilly Allen at the big weekend, when she was getting the crowd to sing "fuck you! Fuck you!" and there were kids there.