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15* Music/MichaelJackson toes the line between this and [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids the opposite]]. He started out as a squeaky-clean child performer with [[Music/TheJacksonFive the Jackson 5]], a group that got [[WesternAnimation/TheJackson5ive their own Saturday morning cartoon]], and as an adult cultivated a family-friendly FriendToAllChildren image. He narrated an ''[[Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial E.T.]]'' storybook album, made ''Film/CaptainEO'' for the Ride/DisneyThemeParks, contributed songs to the first two ''Film/FreeWilly'' movies, starred in ''Theatre/TheWiz'' as Scarecrow, and frequently pushed messages of nonviolence, peace, and charity in his work. His 1993 UsefulNotes/SuperBowl halftime performance ended with him surrounded by hundreds of tykes as he sang "[[Music/DangerousAlbum Heal the World]]". He was well aware that he was a hero to kids. Yet much of what he aimed at them was less than family-friendly by conventional standards.
16** One of his most famous solo songs, "Billie Jean", is about a stalker who claimed that Jackson was the father of one of her twins. Similar "evil woman" songs appear on other albums.
17** "Music/{{Thriller}}" and its spiritual successors have horror themes that are extensively played out in the [[Music/MichaelJacksonsThriller "Thriller" video]] and the short film ''[[Film/MichaelJacksonsGhosts Ghosts]]''.
18** In ''Film/{{Moonwalker}}'', the longest segment of the film is "Smooth Criminal", in which he plays himself as a superhero saving kids from an extreme version of TheAggressiveDrugDealer. The song itself is about a woman's murder, and in the {{Gangsterland}} dance segment featuring the song, he beats up or outright kills several people before whipping out a tommy gun to shoot at the villain's mooks. In the climax, he transforms into a robot (later spaceship) and mows down mook after mook without a care in the world. Note that there was a tie-in book for kids for this film, and it had to {{Bowdlerise}} the story quite a bit by leaving out the darker lyrics of "Smooth Criminal" and the mass killings (with the exception of the BigBad's demise).
19** His crotch-grabbing dance move. He was doing this as early as the video for "Music/{{Bad}}", but the video for "Black or White" made it infamous. This was because the clip was hyped for its kid-friendly, high-tech special effects, a prominent role for ''Film/HomeAlone'' star Creator/MacaulayCulkin, and even cameos from Bart and Homer Simpson. (''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' always had a huge PeripheryDemographic of children despite being an adult-oriented show.) Families ''really'' didn't expect the video to end with a long, music-free sequence of him dancing, grabbing his crotch, and smashing up a car and storefronts. In fact, director Creator/JohnLandis tried to talk him out of the crotch-grabbing, pointing out that his fanbase was full of kids, but was overruled. In the subsequent public outcry, press speculated that he ended the video this way because there's NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity, while Jackson himself claimed he meant no offense at all.
20** After he was accused of child molestation in 1993, his work became DarkerAndEdgier and was no longer pushed to families, but he still referred to himself as a FriendToAllChildren for much of his later career.
21* Music/SClub7 fell into this category with their last album ''Seeing Double''. Two songs in particular that stand out are:
22** "Hey Kitty Kitty" which contains the lyrics "Hey, kitty kitty, set me free. Why d'you wanna do what you do to me? So good at being bad, you blow my mind. Hey, kitty kitty, you're so fine"
23** "Do It Til We Drop." Bradley's raps were pretty unexpected for kids, but this song starts out with the line "Come on and play with me baby, like girls do" which is sung by ''[[HoYay Rachel]]'' and one line before the chorus that's repeated frequently is "I'm so high/I can't come down."
24* [[http://www.bubblegumdancer.com/project.php?id=23 Blue Monster and Bikki]] was, according to the website Bubblegum Dancer, a dance music project from Sweden aimed at children and young kids. It's even referred to as [[JustForFun/XMeetsY a mixture]] of Music/{{Aqua}} and ''Franchise/SesameStreet''. However, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNcJuOr8mXg the lone videoclip]] they released features, in order, an anchorman mentioning the eponymous furry monster "hasn't had sex in 3000 years", the monster drinking lots of alcoholic beverages and sporting a huge pixelated boner after seeing Bikki, a man falling face first into a girl's ample cleavage, and finally the monster whizzing blue pee with his big schlong all over the scientists who were trying to capture him, [[ViralTransformation turning them into other blue monsters]]. The page mentions that the producer thought that "we had some problems deciding the targeted age-group for the album". No kidding!
25* The French children's song "Alouette", when translated, is about plucking a bird's feathers off. It has been featured on everything from ''WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer'' to ''Series/BarneyAndFriends''. One children's show, The Alvin Show, got past the true meaning of the lyrics by singing different English lyrics.
26* Béla Bartok's set of piano pieces ''For Children'' includes several based on {{Bawdy Song}}s with unprintable lyrics.
27* [[http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40856856/ns/business-retail/ A recall]] happened involving a Wal-Mart CD called ''Kids Favorites'', in which it featured songs with absolutely explicit lyrics.
28* Music/KidzBop is very infamous for frequently succumbing to this trope. A number of songs that have been featured on their albums will make you go "What the hell were they ''thinking, putting that in there?!''":
29** This phenomena started early and never quite stopped, with them covering ''Evanescence'''s "Bring Me To Life" in their fourth album. Ever wanted to listen to a chorus of children sing, "Wake me up inside! Bid my blood to rise! Save me from the nothing I've become!"? Well, you can!
30** Pete Wentz of Music/FallOutBoy actually called them on this, preventing "Dance, Dance" from being used for ''Kidz Bop 10'' due its sexual undertones. Kidz Bop wouldn't cover any of Fall Out Boy's songs until 2014, when they covered "Centuries", a decently kid-friendly power-up anthem...and "Uma Thurman", which is just as sexually-charged, if not as much, as "Dance, Dance".
31* Peter Aslop, a children's singer, made a CD about sexuality for kids which contained songs such as "It's My Penis", "Hopelessly Heterosexual" and "Let's Trade Butts".
32* Notorious Website/YouTube child singer [[WebVideo/MishovySilenosti Misha]] lists most of his songs as ([[InsistentTerminology FOR KIDS]]). And while most of his older songs are fine for kids, his recent stuff... [[DarkerAndEdgier isn't]]. He swears a lot, throws in harshly-worded {{Take That}}s, is infatuated about older women, and simply attempts to be an uneducated adult. [[FromTheMouthsOfBabes And yes, you did read that opening sentence correctly]].
33* [[Music/{{Voltaire}} Voltaire's]] children's album ''Spooky Songs for [[CreepyChild Creepy Kids]]''. Most of it consists of {{bowdlerized}} versions of his past songs, but it lives up to its name by still dealing with some rather morbid subjects like cannibalism.

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