When I was a kid, my mother hated Kiss, Ozzy, Alice Cooper, etc. I thought, what's the big deal? Now, I'm the parent and the artists my teenage daughter listens to drop F bombs and avoid using enuendos. They come right out and say what they mean. When I was 11, and Kiss sang about a Love Gun, I wasn't aware what the love gun was at the time. Today, these artists don't do that. If they talk about the love gun, they call it what it is. When did I become my parents?
2007-05-31 08:14:09 · 13 answers · asked by Paul 3 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Parenting
I agree with you, so we must both be old. The problem is that the kids watch the videos now, so there's NOTHING left to the imagination. Plus, the kids watch these videos and they don't realize that it's make-believe. The kids all believe that those ugly rappers really own all that platinum jewelry and they really have swarms of half-naked women all over them all the time. Kids need to be told that the bling is either sterling silver or it's borrowed, and those women are there to get paid. When they're off the clock, those girls don't care about those ugly, sneering, gold toothed, foul-mouthed rappers at all. I can't stand Wal-Mart, but they only sell censored music. When I taught middle school in the 'hood, that's where I bought the music.
2007-05-31 08:21:48 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, we all become our parents. But think of it this way: even if artists today said Love Gun, even kids younger than 11 would know what they are talking about. It's not the artists that are teaching kids what Love Guns are, they already know. So all we can do is try to raise our kids to know how to handle the F bombs & know what's appropriate & what's not. Good luck, pretty soon it'll be Grandpa instead of good old Dad... And it'll be okay. :)
2007-05-31 15:19:49 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
No your not getting old,just more in tune with things than you were all those moons ago!!My teenage daughter listens to all this fast hard rap stuff,thats pretty aggresive,i did listen to rave in the late 80's and it was pretty similar but the lyricks were happy and uplifting.
I look around at teeagers today and think they have evolved so much and dont really seem to be teenagers anymore,they hop from being kids to mini adults so quickly.I also know for a fact that they know alot more than we did verbally.Its a shame really.
2007-05-31 15:22:06 · answer #3 · answered by smiler 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am not a prude. However, I find it offensive when 50 cent describes sex from the beginning to end while I have my eight and eleven year old in the car. Why do I have to listen to that crap?
While growing up, there were explicit songs from Elton John, The Who and The Rolling Stones. You had to buy the album to listen to them, and your mother usually scratched the song out with a common pin.
2007-05-31 15:31:56 · answer #4 · answered by abbacchus 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We all have. We have become old farts. However, be a good parent and don't let your teen daughter listen to that crap, you need to censor!
The best reactions I get from my teen son is me going through his MP3 player, and asking him to download certain songs for me. Y'know, some of that trance junk isn't so bad.....
I'm the one who hooked him on punk with introducing him to The Ramones, so he just kind of went on from there.... He's not a metalhead, but ventures into good old hard rock, punk, and a bit of ska. He's opened my ears, too..... (I'm 46!)
2007-05-31 16:41:24 · answer #5 · answered by Lydia 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
haha love gun.... well, don't take away her music, she's gotta know what one is.
I'm becoming my mom too. I used to go out and paaaaaaaaaaaaaarty!! now I have my job, my son, and all i wanna do on a saturday night is sit back and relax with a good booilk and quiet time.
2007-05-31 15:18:13 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I know it is kind of freaky the day that you realize you have become your parents. I now know that some things really were for the best, and hopefully my kid will realize this one day too.
2007-05-31 15:19:22 · answer #7 · answered by bluefroggy 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Ha. It goes around, it comes around. That's life.
Just wait till your daughter becomes a mother, and she has to face this same thing.
2007-05-31 15:27:17 · answer #8 · answered by kiwi 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My son says all the groups my wouldn't let me listen to are sooo boring. I used to try to keep up with what he was listening to, but now I've given up. Wait, I hear him now.....
Hey boy.....Turn that *!@* music down!!!!!!
2007-05-31 17:37:48 · answer #9 · answered by my2centsworth 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
wow. i was pondering the same thing the other night when i heard myself make a comment my mother used to say to me when i was little wow just monitor her music
2007-05-31 15:56:16 · answer #10 · answered by kleighs mommy 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋