YMMV / Kidz Bop

• Accidental Innuendo:
  • Their take on Cascada's "Evacuate the Dancefloor" changes "Can't stop 'cause it feels like an overdose" to "Can't stop 'cause it feels like it's really close". If anything, the latter is dirtier.
  • Their take on Taylor Swift's "Anti-Hero" changes "I have this dream my daughter in-law kills me for the money" to "I have this dream my daughter in-law does it for the money".
• Common Knowledge: Kidz Bop songs are all sung by kids...except the songs on many earlier albums had adult cover artists as lead vocalists, with the kids mostly singing the harmonies and the chorus. This changed around 2010.
• Critic-Proof: The internet reviles the albums although most of them have peaked in the top ten of the Billboard 200. Eight of the first ten are certified Gold by the RIAA. As of this writing, they have 44 albums, which have been going since 2001, and are showing no signs of slowing down anytime soon.
• Just Here for Godzilla: Many older people listen to the covers just for the hilarious lyrical changes, or ironically enjoy hearing kids sing Age-Inappropriate Art for the Memetic Mutation.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • Some of the covers, such as "Bring Me To Life", "Thrift Shop", and "Hotline Bling", due to how odd it is to cover such songs on a kid's album.
  • It's a common internet joke to make up altered lyrics to hypothetical Kidz Bop covers. Here's what many people think a Kidz Bop cover of My Chemical Romance's "Mama" would go:
    Mama, we all go to school
    Mama, we all go to school
    I'm writing this essay, 'cause learning is cool
    Mama, we all go to school
  • The altered line "Riding on a tractor, riding on my bladder." from their "Old Town Road" cover has become this.
  • Kidz Bop 9 included a cover of Mariah Carey's "We Belong Together," which has a clear blooper towards the end of the song where the main singer's voice gives out at the final note before being cut out. The internet found it and quickly had their laughs. Amusingly enough, they had to turn off the comments on the official YouTube video of it but the blooper remains.
  • At the height of the song's popularity, many joked about a hypothetical Kidz Bop cover of "WAP". Potential bowdlerizations ranged from "Waffles and Pancakes" to "Worship and Pray".
• Misattributed Song: It's common for people to think that Kidz Bop covered certain songs when in reality their numerous imitators or other YouTube child stars covered them. Many people believe that Kidz Bop did a cover of "Blurred Lines", even though it was actually MattyBRaps who performed a kid-friendly parody of it.
• Narm: Many of the altered lyrics try to maintain a sense of coolness, but come out sounding like a child's idea of what's cool, sometimes bordering on nonsense. For example, the altered chorus for "Closer," originally about a couple having sex "in the backseat of your Rover that I know you can't afford" and on stolen bedsheets, now has kids romantically singing about standing against a Rover "that I know you can't afford" (which is now Captain Obvious since they're kids) and ripping sheets out of a stolen notebook.
• Older Than the Demographic: Despite most of the singers being around 8-13, their main demographic is 5-to-9-year-olds. Most tweens and even younger kids nearing the end of their demographic are listening to the original versions of the covered songs on the mainstream radio anyway, if not the cleaner, non-kid-ified edits on Radio Disney.
• Poor Man's Substitute:
  • Kidz Bop has numerous imitators, one of which included a cover of Fall Out Boy's "Thnks fr th Mmrs".
  • There's also a Canadian children's pop cover group called Mini Pop Kids that debuted in 2004. Songs that weren't appropriate enough for Kidz Bop were included in their franchise. For example: Lady Gaga's "Poker Face", Pitbull's "Give Me Everything", Katy Perry's "Teenage Dream", Daft Punk's "Get Lucky", P!nk's "Blow Me (One Last Kiss)", Fifth Harmony’s "Work from Home", The Weeknd’s "Can’t Feel My Face", Sam Smith’s "Stay With Me", Billie Eilish's "Bad Guy", Jessie J's "Bang Bang", and Harry Styles' "Watermelon Sugar".
  • Disney had a short-lived imitator group from 2003 to 2004 called Superstar Kidz. In addition to covering some of the same songs KB covered, they also covered some songs KB did not cover such as LMNT's "Juliet", Jump5's "All I Can Do", Liz Phair's "Why Can't I", and Dream Street's " It Happens Every Time".
  • EMI had a group called Kids Picks Hit Mix which lasted from 2003 to 2006. Among the songs they covered that KB did not include Play's "I Must Not Chase The Boys", Avril Lavigne's "Losing Grip", and Christina Aguilera's " The Voice Within".
• Retroactive Recognition: Among others, Ross Lynch, Zendaya, Olivia Holt, and Becky G have all sung for Kidz Bop at one point or another.
• So Bad, It's Good: Admittedly, their attempts at bowdlerization and leaving intact with Age-Inappropriate Art make for ironic enjoyment.
• Sweetness Aversion: Often in stark contrast to the originals. The Kidz Bop Kids make already cheery songs sound even more sugary due to their prepubescent singing voices and higher-pitched beats. That, and they turn R-rated fare into innocent playground tag.
• What Do You Mean, It's for Kids?: Despite their main purpose being to clean up songs deemed too inappropriate for younger audiences so the little ones can listen, Kidz Bop has taken a stab at many child-unfriendly songs sometimes where the explicitness even lies right down to the title, often with little or no attempts to use effective bowdlerization.

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