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Original poster

To not be comfortable with the music played at my child's school today?

43 replies

NeverMakeMeScream · 16/12/2009 22:07

Have namechanged as I am a regular and the school would be identifyable etc, and although I'm not going to make a fuss, I would like some opinions.

Today my DS came home from school singing

this song

I was a bit and asked where he'd heard it, to which he replied that the teacher had it on in class today.

Now, I do realize that children are exposed to all manner of music on the radio etc, and am not looking to shelter him from it. I'm just not sure that it's appropriate for these types of songs to be played in the classroom.

He's in y2 btw.

OP posts:
WillieWalsh · 16/12/2009 22:09

mine loev that song
NO ideA what its about

pick your fights imo

chegirlwithbellson · 16/12/2009 22:11

They played the lyrics too

But on my CD its very clear its about a bloke who is nice in other ways but is crap in bed.

WillieWalsh · 16/12/2009 22:12

yes if you listen and have a vgue idea

Its up to you but imo id presume this wont be a reg event

ilove · 16/12/2009 22:13

She sang it live on Strictly the other night

Original poster
NeverMakeMeScream · 16/12/2009 22:13

Oh I didn't have any intention of making a complaint or anything like that, I was just a bit about a song with clearly inappropriate lyrics being played in a classroom.

Me and dh did talk about it, and I pointed out that when we were kids we were probably exposed to similar, it was the setting rather than the song iyswim.

OP posts:
NewPinkPup · 16/12/2009 22:14

What song is it?My you tube says I can't see it due to the country I live in & copyright?!

WillieWalsh · 16/12/2009 22:14

yy i rememebr seeing grease at NINE nad not getting ANY of it

cathcat · 16/12/2009 22:15

Well I was going to say no big deal but if my young child came home singing
"I'm lying in the wet patch in the middle of the bed...I spent ages giving head"
then I would be a tad upset too OP.

WillieWalsh · 16/12/2009 22:15

most versions haev that blanked out

deaddei · 16/12/2009 22:15

We had it on in the car the other day- dh had never heard it and of course the dcs were singing it.
He was HORRIFIED - but they had no idea what it was about- and dd is 13. In fact when it was the bit about the wet patch, she said "he must pee the bed like you!" (to her brother, not me)
Not sure it's appropriate for school but I wouldn't make a fuss. Save it for the big stuff.

SixtyFootDoll · 16/12/2009 22:16

The lyrics would go over kids head , maybe they did with the teacher too.

CybilServant · 16/12/2009 22:16

Lily's choice of lyrics is veh immature

GrimmaTheNome · 16/12/2009 22:17

It'd probably go right over the heads of year 2s, fortunately.

Catchy tune though

Ladyanonymous · 16/12/2009 22:17

Song was written about my ex husband...I do pity his new partner

verytellytubby · 16/12/2009 22:17

DD (7) loves Lily Allen but I do find this song a bit much for her so I agree but I wouldn't agree.

Even DH was mortified when we watched her on the Glastonbury highlights and she dedicated it to her granddad in the crowd!

winestein · 16/12/2009 22:17

I'm no prude, but this song is entirely inappropriate to be played to a year 2 child, although I agree with WillieWalsh that they will not have a clue what it's about. I presume he wasn't able to recite the entire song and they hadn't actually been learning it in assembly though!

The circumstances that it was played in school were probably a little "festive". Is it in the charts or something?

NewPinkPup · 16/12/2009 22:18

Ahh.. Lily Allen..
My ds (just 5, in reception) sings Lady Gaga "I wanna take a ride on your disco stick" etc etc.. Has no clue what anything is about, just hears things on the radio when in the car, while eating breakfast etc.

But I am a bit that it was on in your sons classroom..

verytellytubby · 16/12/2009 22:18

I meant wouldn't complain. I must proof read!

50ftChristmasTree · 16/12/2009 22:19

I am torn to be honest. I am ed that a teacher thinks that it is appropriate to play to year 2s, especially as it mentions laying the wet patch etc. But my ds is in year 2 and I know full well he wouldn't have a clue about what the lyrics were or what they meant.

MrsMattie · 16/12/2009 22:19

Lily Allen. What a talentless little bore. I'd be offended at the teacher's shite taste!

fledtoscotland · 16/12/2009 22:20

I would assume that the teacher had played the "radio" version which does not have any of the lyrics you are upset about. If not, YANBU but not really something thats worth getting worked up about

shallishanti · 16/12/2009 22:21

probably the teacher hadn't really paid attention to the lyrics. All the kids will hear is 'it's not fair' they wouldn't understand the rest even if they could hear the words properly.
Not a problem, IMO

deaddei · 16/12/2009 22:21

Maybe it was on a compilation cd- now that's what I call music 150- and teacher might be totally oblivious to real meaning.

ToffeeCrumble · 16/12/2009 22:22

I've heard the song a few times but hadn't listened carefully enough to the lyrics to know what it was about. The teacher probably wouldn't have had time to either and Y2 kids certainly won't have a clue so it's not harming them. I think you're right not to make a fuss about something that I'm sure was unintentional.

Northernlebkuchen · 16/12/2009 22:23

Dh and I were not impressed about it being on Strictly tbh. Yes it was after 9 - but there will have been lots of children allowed to stay up and watching Lily sing about how her man won't go down her isn't my idea of family entertainment! YANBU