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Over/Underage

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Well, 12 year olds listen to a lot of startling stuff these days.

Don't records have ratings now? I would assume that any parent who was monitoring what their children were listening to would pay attention to them. But who bothers with that anymore?

A few years my sister was upset because my nephew was listening to a lot of hip hop music where the lyrics were fuck this, fuck that. I told her, "First of all, he probably can't even understand the lyrics. And even if he does, it goes in one ear and out the other. Tell him you just love his music and he'll switch to Country/Western overnight."
 
Well, i think most of us had all the feelings and thoughts at 16 we were not supposed to have according to some laws or our parents. Those things just don't start at 18 with a snap of your fingers. Teenagers are often much more mature than most adults would think.

So, yes I think it's appropriate when teenagers sing about topics which are important for other people their age. It's actually better if they do than some adults who think they understand their feelings. At this age we also didn't believe the adults, did we? ;)
 
i get creeped out when a young girl sings a love song on a talent show type reality show

it just makes me feel instinctively icky
 
ronnie_h said:
yes I think it's appropriate when teenagers sing about topics which are important for other people their age
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exactly. just because someone is a certain age and you feel they shouldn't be feeling a certain way, doesn't invalidate those feelings or make it wrong for them to have them

writing/singing about our feelings is one way for us to deal with them- if adults can do it, why not a teenager who feels the same things?
 
... do you remember high school?

kids experimenting.. dating eachother everywhere u look.. boy meets girl.. boy dumps girl... girl falls apart.. or vice versa...

teenagers are dealing with more and more "adult" things when they themselves are far from adulthood... they are all on emotional rollercoasters and even though they know nothing about the real world and probably have no idea what real love is... they think they do... and they will bite off your head if you say otherwise...

so I don't really think its odd that a 16 yr old is singing about such mature subject matter... it helps them express the issues they are facing right now... and the songs would help other teens... maybe even adults that might be going through something similar in their lives cope with those feelings...

now if she was singing about wanting sex.... then i think there would be a problem
 
I remember that song 'Afternoon Delight' by the Starland Vocal Band sounding so innocent when I was a kid. Little did I know....

...and I won't even get into Sheena Easton's 'Sugar Walls' (no pun intended)
 
craiggg said:
I remember that song 'Afternoon Delight' by the Starland Vocal Band sounding so innocent when I was a kid. Little did I know....
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Did you see the very inappropriate, but hilariously funny karaoke rendition of that song on "Arrested Development"? Michael sang it with his 15 year old niece, and they both started feeling uncomfortable with the lyrics about half way through.

Back to over/underage, though. The judges on American Idol often bring this point up. Too often some teenager tries to sing a song that speaks of experiences far beyond what is believable to most listeners. They get called on it by the judges every time.
 
I have always had a very uneasy feeling about show business children either of their own accord or through the will of their parents, performing in an adult fashion. I well remember when Leann Rhimes was coming up through the ranks and they had her all dolled up like a street walker, singing some songs that were quite suggestive and acting like quite the seductress in some of her early videos. Kids in show business is great, but they should act like kids, not adults.

I know some of these kids are allowed to do some of types of performing they do because the parents are hooked on the money they bring in. It's sad when you see people whore their children out like that, but that is pretty much what some of these parents do. The parents either do not think about what it will do to their child later on, or they just don't care.
 
Well, remember that when we were kids, we still sang songs about heartache and love and allt hat kind of stuff, we just didn't realize what it meant and it didn't imply that we were thinking the same thing. I mean, I sang Crystal Gayle songs about a man who ran around with another woman. I didn't get a thing for adultary, but it probably did mean that I as irrevocably gay.
 
I think it's idiotic for teenage performers to sing about relationships, just as I feel it's idiotic for teenagers to have what they think are relationships. I think it's idiotic for teenagers to be recording artists in the first place, they should be living life rather than singing somebody else's words about it.

But they do it anyway, no matter what I think. Damned kids! *shakes fist and squints*
 
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