(This post is part of the Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge. You can find links to other writers' answers over at Long and Short Reviews. I have not been following along as reliably this year as I did in previous years, but I'm still participating! Mostly.)
Prompt: Songs that confused me when I was a kid...I don't remember being especially confused by songs I heard as a kid. I really don't...
But in the course of talking about this with a friend of mine I got reminded of a couple of childhood songs that... well... have kind of a different flavor from what I hear of kids' songs these days. I wasn't confused about them, but I think they might be a bit confusing to modern children just because the entire genre seems to have gone out of fashion.
Case in point:
Or how about this one?
Or there's, well...
Okay, this last one isn't strictly a children's song, but I'm throwing it in here anyway because apparently I'm in a mood:
From what I've seen my nephew's watching over the years, kid's songs seem to have gotten dumber. I'm lookin' at you Baby Shark!
ReplyDeleteI must agree with you there, George!
DeleteYeah, that one's a whole different approach; it's trying for catchy instead of smart.
DeleteI liked this genre of children’s songs when I was a kid. It’s too bad they have fallen out of fashion.
ReplyDeleteIt really is. I was trying to think of any recent equivalents and I can't come up with much of anything. I hope that's a failure on my part instead of the culture's...
DeleteGood song picks!
ReplyDeletePris cilla King
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DeleteYes, I can see those would have thrown me a bit as a child.
ReplyDeleteI had a somewhat odd upbringing.
DeleteThere was a 1988 Canadian short film called the Cat Came Back that was a scream - and I assume inspired by the old song.
ReplyDeleteI saw that! I stumbled across it while looking for this version of the song.
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