We listen to the radio a lot in the car. We listen to kids songs on the iPod as well, but as often as not we are tuned to a pop music station. Sometimes I worry that the lyrics are not appropriate for my children, but when I actually stop to listen to how they are processing these things, I get less worried.
“Your Love is My Drug” by Ke$ha
This is how Ruby sings this song:
What you got boy is hard to find
I think about it all the time
I’m all hung up, my heart is fine.
I just can’t get you off my mind.
GET OUT! GET OUT! GET OUT OF MY TRUCK!
“Raise Your Glass” by Pink
Ruby will often fill in words she doesn’t know with words that make more sense to her. For example:
So raise your glass if you are wrong, in all the right ways
Ow! A hundred dogs!
“Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)” by Katy Perry
We were in the car one day when this came on the radio, and Ruby heard the first line of the song, which is “There’s a stranger in my bed.” She started laughing really hard and said “A STRANGER in her BED!? I guess she should have locked her doors!”
“Moves Like Jagger” by Maroon 5
Ruby consistently referred to this song as “Moves Like Jacket” for the longest time!
“Love You Like a Love Song” by Selena Gomez and the Scene
Actually, come to think of it, a lot of adults sing this song the same way Ruby does…
I, I love you like a love song baby
I, I love you like a love song baby
I, I love you like a love song baby
And I keep singing beep beep beep beep beep beep beep!
I have also successfully convinced her that “What the Hell” by Avril Lavigne is actually called “Walk the Cow,” but that was my fault, not hers. There are plenty of other examples of course, and hopefully many more to come in the years ahead, and I look forward to all of the unintentional parodies, as well as maybe a few intentional ones.