Tuesday, September 7, 2010
GAGA
Okay so today I started babysitting for a nice family with two children who are super cute, but crazy hyper. I tried everything to get the little girl Hannah, whose ten to calm down and the only thing that would do the trick was having a dance contest. She insisted we listen to Lady Gaga's Alejandro over times ten IN A ROW! Hannah's mom only lets her listen to YouTube songs that have only lyrics (no dancing), because they can be so inappropriate. Right when the song came on she mentioned that Gaga swears in the song and how she loves learning new swears, at this point I had no idea what to do... Hannah seems like a very impressionable young kid right now and Gaga is defiantly not the best role model. Even some songs that Taylor Swift, Justin Beiber, and other teen sensations display the wrong message to young kids. Also YouTube can be a dangerous place for kids, because you can click your way to inappropriate videos. I was with my boyfriend's five year old niece the other day and she clicked herself into a YouTube semi porno. Horrified, I grabbed the computer and decided to change our activity to Wii. Should kids be able use YouTube and watch music videos on computers? I think their should defiantly be an age limit, but how old is old enough there is just so much bad?....
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I'm a nanny for four kids, Charlie, 11, Sean, 9, Julia and Colin, 6. The six year olds are the ones that like to go on youtube and listen to music. I was horrified as well they started repeating the lyrics to all the Ke$ha songs. They are only six and saying "boys want to touch my junk, gonna slap 'em if they get to drunk". I can't stand that song and think its inappropriate for the radio, let alone six year olds.
ReplyDeleteI know what you both mean! I think the good thing is that little kids probably don't know what they are singing. Words don't really have meaning until we give it to them. That being said, sexually charged lyrics really aren't appropriate for kids to listen to because when they repeat them, there may be creepy adults that enjoy it a little too much.
ReplyDeleteChelsea, I posted a very long comment to your blog post because I find this subject very appealing but I do not see it. Did you get it or am I just missing something? Ha, I guess you can tell I am a new blogger.
ReplyDeleteok, I guess I figured out how to post which was a step I should have already tackled! I was typing a huge response and it clearly did not make it but it was about my parent's pre-school and the songs that four and five year olds sing. Many of these kids are singing songs they hear on the radio and lets face it a lot of inappropriate lyrics or meanings can still pass through that type of media. Most of it is along the Taylor Swift kind of genre but her message is still mainly about relationships and making out which is not what young children should be belting out about. Youtube is also a huge problem I am shocked by some of the videos I come across and I can only image what a curious middle school aged kid sees. The Lady Gaga video "telephone" is crazy and the sound bites and visual imagery would shock anyone, even me. Who is in charge here though? The parents with their restrictions or youtube with more child safety rules?
ReplyDeleteThis is so funny because my cousin's little girl...who isn't even one yet...LOVES Gaga's Bad Romance and sways back and forth and dances to it. It's hysterical!
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