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Music: Kidz Bop

A CD series of pop song covers performed by kids. Currently on the 21st CD of their main series, Kidz Bop has also released several special collection CDs.

This series contains the following tropes:

Age Inappropriate Art: A short list of songs that have been featured within that make you go "What the hell were they thinking?":
- Good Charlotte's "The Anthem"
- Trapt's "Headstrong"
- Hoobastank's "The Reason"
- Britney Spears' "Toxic"
- Black Eyed Peas' "Let's Get It Started" (the album version amounts to "Let's Get Retarded"!)
- Bowling For Soup's "1985"
- Flo Rida's "Club Can't Handle Me"
- Cee Lo Green's "For get You"
- Green Day's "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" (which in the album version even has an F-bomb!)
- The All-American Rejects' "Move Along"
- Ke$ha's "Tik Tok"
- P!nk's "Who Knew", "So What" and "Perfect".
  - Heck, most P!nk songs are just not appropriate for kids. The worst offenders: "Funhouse", "Fingers", "Stupid Girl" and "U and UR Hand".
- Kevin Rudolf's "Let It Rock"
- Katy Perry's "California Gurls"
- Christina Aguilera's "Not Myself Tonight"
- Franz Ferdinand's "Take Me Out", despite the lyrics being okay, is actually based on a pretty morbid event where two lovers got shot.
  - Specifically, the shooting of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife. That is to say, the song is about the shooting of the guy whose death caused a little incident known as World War One...
- Pete Wentz of Fall Out Boy actually called them on this, preventing "Dance, Dance" from being used for Kidz Bop 10 due to its sexual undertones.
- Hinder's "Lips of an Angel" and Buckcherry's "Sorry" have really strong lyrics. Saving Abel should be thanking God that "Addicted" wasn't on Kidz Bop 15, while Bruno Mars should be counting his blessings that Kidz Bop 19 (and 20) passed over "Grenade".
  - Foster the People, Dev and Taylor Swift are probably taking a sigh of relief now that they found out that "Pumped Up Kicks", "In The Dark" and "Sparks Fly" didn't make it to "Kidz Bop 21."*
    A Swift song, inappropriate? Well, this particular one...
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- Hopefully, the people at Kidz Bop are smart enough to know what LMFAO stands for before they even think about covering "Party Rock Anthem" on Kidz Bop 21.
  - They weren't.
  - Or They Just Didn't Care (they didn't spell out their name). In fact, it's the very first song on the new album!invoked
  - This situation is a repeat of that with Barenaked Ladies' "One Week" on the first Kidz Bop album.
  - And hopefully no "Sexy and I Know It". Try and figure out what they're wiggling.
- Here's a shocker: Nicki Minaj's "Fly" will also be on "21".
- Taio Cruz's "Dynamite", which contains an F-bomb and is about a guy going to a club and dancing all night..
- There was a joke about how a Kidz Bop version of Nelly's Hot In Here would go.
It's getting hot in here
So put on some cool clothes
I am getting so hot
I'm gonna put a fan on
- Of course, this was probably one of the points of Kidz Bop in the first place. Catchy pop song being played non-stop on the radio? Song contains references to sex, drinking and violence? Your 7-year-old loves the song and begs for it to be played? Kidz Bop to the rescue.
Bowdlerize: Kidz Bop does this to songs that originally had violent or sexual content in their lyrics in order to make them more kid friendly. This makes their song choices interesting, to say the least.
- Their recent cover of Lady Gaga "Born This Way" is a particularly notable example where they manage to completely strip away the entire meaning of the song by cutting out any reference to the LGBT community or any explicit reference to being different for that matter.
Little Boy Blue Note: The best known example in 21st century America.
Long Runner: They've released 20 CDs and counting from their main series since 2001.
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