“We are weird about what we censor and weird about what we care about” Aditi Shrikantĭo you think kids can recognize context even with the censors Kidz Bop applies? Christopher Bell Kids are doing dances that are sanitized but sexual at the same time because no one understands content they just understand form. You’ve got kids posturing in ways that I don’t know if they understand what they are doing, but the people filming definitely understand. It’s very gender conformist and racial conformist. It’s like censorship of the most banal kind. Fundamentally, I don’t understand why Kidz Bop has to exist. And Kidz Bop doesn’t always make that distinction. I don’t need a sanitized version of “Despacito” - I need 8-year-olds not to be singing “Despacito” because that is super dirty. Kidz Bop is an abomination because it censors language but it doesn’t censor content. We all know Kidz Bop censorship to be kind of odd and annoying, but is it actually insufficient? Christopher Bell Our conversation has been edited for length and clarity.
I asked him about how what is censored, in Kidz Bop and otherwise, can affect what children learn. Kids’ media may take out “bad words,” but it doesn’t fix the problem of violence and oversexualization of women in media and pop culture. He sees the product as both lazy and emblematic of our mistaken views on what censorship accomplishes.
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He has hosted a TED talk on female superheroes, is currently consulting on an upcoming Pixar movie (which he cannot talk about because of a very long NDA), and is an avowed Kidz Bop hater. One source quoted in the study is Christopher Bell, an associate professor of media studies at the University of Colorado in Colorado Springs who is an expert on how race, class, and gender intersect with children’s media. The study says that repackaging adult music as kids’ music doesn’t eliminate the adult messages, even though some words and phrases are changed. Even if it did, what Kidz Bop is enforcing is also not kid-appropriate: The study says the music perpetuates the sociological phenomenon of “kids getting older younger” (KGOY), which claims that marketing is pushing kids out of their childhood earlier and earlier. What makes Kidz Bop such a confusing success is that it fails in its primary mission: Though it sanitizes popular songs, the music that results could not fairly be called “kid-friendly.”Ī 2017 study on the effects of censorship in Kidz Bop found that replacing phrases does not actually wipe lyrical recognition from children’s minds if they have already heard the original song. There is a Sirius XM channel that plays Kidz Bop music 24/7 (something that seems specifically manufactured by the Bad Place). The rotating roster of Kidz Bop Kids have gone on six national tours, serenading audiences across the country. Since its genesis in 2001, the brand has expanded to live music, merchandise, and brand partnerships. 1 kids’ album artists from 2011 to 2017 and have had 22 Top 10 albums on the Billboard Top 200 chart - more than Madonna or Elton John. As of this year, it has released more than 38 albums. Yet somehow Kidz Bop has proven to be an enduring brand. Now it’s something I forget exists unless I unfortunately stumble on it during one of the few times a year I have access to cable. As a kid, an ensemble of nasal voices singing castrated covers of the most overplayed songs on the radio was always upsetting to me (even in the condensed form of a one-minute commercial between Spongebob episodes).
Kidz Bop’s mission is to make “ kid-friendly versions of today’s biggest pop music hits,” which translates to compilation albums of kids covering popular songs stripped of obscenities and suggestive language. If there is an age when Kidz Bop is cool, I was never that age.
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