Another blog about how old I feel

I'm not usually one to censor music for my kids. I want them to like all kinds of music, which they do. Charlie likes rockin' country, a little hip-hop, and metal. Trina likes absolutely everything from singers and standards(she loves Rosemary Clooney, loves her), dance/techno, to her favorite band, System of a Down. Maddie is the one I'm finding I have to censor. She likes pop music. Sounds innocuous enough, right? WRONG!! LOL

First there are the Pussycat Dolls. There songs are really catchy and pretty dance worthy. But the lyrics are definitely not for 7 year olds ears. This is just the chorus of the song "Don't Cha"

Don't cha wish your girlfriend was hot like me?
Don't cha wish your girlfriend was a freak like me?
Don't chaDon't cha
Don't cha wish your girlfriend was raw like me?
Don't cha wish your girlfriend was fun like me?
Don't chaDon't cha

I really don't want to hear Maddie and her friends singing "Don't cha wish your girlfriend was raw like me?" *shudder* Most of their songs are pretty sexual so I don't let her listen to them. I keep pushing Kelly Clarkston.

Then, not too long ago, she comes home asking me what a stripper was. Apparently there is another song by T-pain called "I'm in love with a stripper." I think that one is pretty self-explanatory, don't you?

Whatever happened to bubble-gum pop? Not that I like it, but at least lyrics from Paula Abdul, Debbie Gibson, even Hilary Duff weren't blatantly sexual. I just want her to be little for a while longer but I keep having to explain things that I'm just not ready to explain to her. *sigh* I can't even let her listen to the radio. So that means I have to listen to music and then buy her cds. This part of parenting can be really damaging to your ears.