7/1/2023 0 Comments Songs about kids growing upWhatever, it’s a catchy song produced by a legitimate grown-up band producing fun music for adults. However, the song itself has a driving ska beat and is acoustically playful even at one point featuring a toy piano. Hopefully they didn’t hear it watching its original cinematic outing in the Ben Stiller cult film Mystery Men – an enjoyable diversion for geek dads but not really appropriate for the munchkins. #5 "All Star" by Smash MouthĬlearly an example of an alternative rock hit being co-opted as children’s music, it’s known in our house (and probably many others) as "The Shrek Song" because many children encountered it under the opening credits of the first Shrek movie. Over the years there are several songs that have taken a storied place in our family history and can serve as proof that a classic rock education is a good starting place for entertaining your kids and helping to preserve your sanity. “Play it again!”) we, the parents, need music that’s not kids music. As the New York Times Magazine commented in a review of one of his early albums, “Zanes’ kids music works because it is not kids music it’s just music – music that’s unsanitized, unpasteurized…”Ĭonsidering the average child’s listening habits (i.e. Fortunately the light at the end of the children’s music tunnel arrived over a decade ago with musicians like Dan Zanes making music that was palatable for everyone in the family. But frankly – at times – mainstream commercial children’s music can seem like a conspiracy to torture parents into regretting they had children. I’m going to start this off by saying I’m sure Raffi is a very nice person and it’s very likely the Wiggles aren’t actually evil.
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