Why does kidz bop still exist

Just how does. Data analysis by Sara Stoudt. Can you find what Kidz Bop censored? Warning adult language ahead. Ariana Grande 7 Rings. Sentence about how you did goes here. Kidz Bop. Bull ridin' and boobies, Cowboy hat from Gucci, Wrangler on my booty. Lipa's "new rules" for warding off her ex, most of which have to do with avoiding drunken hookups, get a squeaky-clean makeover courtesy of the Kidz Bop Kids, who transform her warning that "you know you're gonna wake up in his bed in the morning" to the cheerier "you know you're gonna meet up with your friends in the morning.

Under the purview of the Kidz Bop Kids, Mars' condo in Manhattan is less a carnal kingdom and more like summer camp, with his plans for "sex by the fire at night" transforming into a "hang by the fire at night," and his "drop it for me" commands turning into "sing it with a friend. She engages in horrific physical violence — kicks the holy shit out of eight guys on the screen.

Tasers them, electrocutes them, kicks them in the face, throws them across the room. We are weird about what we censor and weird about what we care about.

And violence is always at the bottom of that list. Does this lack of censorship when it comes to sexual content and violence affect boys and girls differently? Especially when it comes to KGOY? Particularly in terms of this whole getting older younger thing. Our boys are getting older younger, too, but it manifests itself differently. With girls, it manifests itself with sexualization. With boys, it manifests itself with violence and this sort of never-ending stream of violent content and the ideology that violence is an acceptable means to solve your problems.

For girls, adulthood is tied to their sexuality; for boys, adulthood is tied to the ability to win. And winning, in our culture, almost always has the baseline that is violence. Pixar hired you to consult. I think a generation of people who have been in charge of things for a very long time are slowly moving out of those positions of power, and the people coming in after them have a different sensibility. If you look at the acquisition of Lucasfilm, for example, the way George Lucas runs that company is not the way Kathleen Kennedy is running that company.

One of them: "Blurred Lines" by Robin Thicke. In an industry where sales are increasingly moving to the digital realm—CD sales have hit a record low , in fact—the majority of Kidz Bop sales are still physical copies.

Zaraya says that's due to the extras they offer with each purchase—like stickers and magnets. The gang did their first-ever original song on Kidz Bop 30 in , a spunky little ditty called "Make Some Noise.