History Music / KidzBop

* GetBackInTheCloset: Their cover of Music/{{Halsey}}'s "Bad at Love", where she describes her failed relationships with both male and female lovers, has only the males sing the parts about the females.

* AgeInappropriateDress: Maybe not to the extremes of some mainstream little-girl groups like Play, but to some extent the outfits the preteen girls wear in the dance-along videos border on too revealing.

** Creator/{{Zendaya}} appeared in the music video for their cover of "[[Music/KatyPerry Hot N' Cold]]", though she didn't sing in said cover.

** "Sing" by Music/EdSheeran was originally about a guy who met a girl at a bar after getting drunk and consuming copious amounts of tobacco. The Kidz Bop cover is implied to take place at a school social event and not involve any alcohol.

** Early Kidz Bop albums were more or less unedited, with only explicit language censored. This was due to the fact older/adult singers mainly sang the songs, with the kids chiming in during chorus lines or appropriate lyrics. This is notable since songs like "Toxic" and "Crazy in Love" were included ''without any editing.''

** Older albums were more-or-less reluctant to include rap verses on mainly pop songs. Even the cleaner verses on "Baby", "Umbrella", and "Cruise (remix)" were all removed. Newer albums have been more welcoming to rap verses on mainly pop songs.

* PuppyLove: Despite children being deemed too young to go on legitimate dates, they still cover songs about romance.

''Kidz Bop'' is an album series of pop song covers performed by kids. Currently on the [[LongRunner 41st album]] of their main series, Kidz Bop has also released several special collection albums. Kidz Bop initially released albums every six months; it changed to a quarterly release schedule in 2015, shifted to a tri-annual release schedule, returned to its traditional semiannual release by 2018, and moved to once-a-year releases in 2019.

** "Sing" by Ed Sheeran was originally about a guy who met a girl at a bar after getting drunk and consuming copious amounts of tobacco. The Kidz Bop cover is implied to take place at a school social event and not involve any alcohol.

* TheMoralSubstitute: Kidz Bop was pushed as a more family-friendly alternative to the mainstream rap and pop. However, due to its ironically age-inappropriate tendencies, it was ridiculed.
* YoungerAndHipper: It's not uncommon for songs to be rewritten with younger protagonists who mention things such as school.

* PuppyLove: Despite children being deemed too young to go on legitimate dates, they still cover songs about romance.

* AdaptationalContextChange: In Kidz Bop's version of Music/{{Coldplay}}'s "Viva la Vida", a song told from the perspective of a fallen king, the line "Revolutionaries wait / For my head on a silver plate" is changed to "Revolutionaries wait / For my food on a silver plate", which implies the revolutionaries ''care'' about the king being well fed.

* FakeAmerican: Many of the adult vocals on earlier albums were provided by English session singer Kirsten Price.

** DNCE's "Cake by the Ocean", in the original version, uses cake as a metaphor for sex on the beach and cunnilingus, whereas the Kidz Bop version is about eating literal cake.

* LongRunner: They've released 41 [=CDs=] since first starting in 2001.

''Kidz Bop'' is a CD series of pop song covers performed by kids. Currently on the [[LongRunner 41st CD]] of their main series, Kidz Bop has also released several special collection [=CDs=]. Kidz Bop releases albums every six months; it changed to a quarterly release schedule in 2015, shifted to a tri-annual release schedule, returned to its traditional semiannual release by 2018, and moved to once-a-year releases in 2019.

** The original "Love Me Like You Do" is a song about Ana and Christian's erotic relationship from ''Fifty Shades of Grey'' sung from the former’s point of view. Kidz Bop's version is an innocent teenage love song.

* SoBadItsGood: Their cover of " All The Small Things".

* AdaptationalContextChange: In Kidz Bop's version of Music/{{Coldplay}}'s "Viva la Vida", a song told from the perspective of a fallen king, the line "Revolutionaries wait / For my head on a silver plate" is changed to "Revolutionaries wait / For my food on a silver plate" which... what? It implies the revolutionaries ''care'' about the king being well fed.

* DarkerAndEdgier:
** Once upon a time, Kidz Bop would not lay their hands on any PG-13 rated song. Nowadays, having a huge pop hit and being passed over by Kidz Bop is seen as the music industry's equivalent of dodging a bullet. Proof of Kidz Bop's increasingly liberal approach to song selection can be seen in its track record of covering ''Hot 100'' number-one singles. For example, out of 18 #1 singles in 2000, only seven ("Smooth", "What A Girl Wants", "Amazed", "Try Again", "Be with You", "Everything You Want", and "Come On Over Baby") appeared on a Kidz Bop album. Flash-forward to 2015, and "Cheerleader" is the ''thirteenth'' consecutive Hot 100 #1 single to have made it onto a Kidz Bop album.[[note]]Let's count: "Timber", "Dark Horse", "Happy" and "All of Me" on ''26'', "Fancy", "Rude", "Shake It Off", and "All About That Bass" on ''27'', "Blank Space" and "Uptown Funk" on ''28'', "See You Again" on ''29'', and "Bad Blood" and "Cheerleader" on ''30''. The streak was finally broken when neither "Can't Feel My Face" nor "The Hills", The Weeknd's #1 hits, appeared on any Kidz Bop album.[[/note]] This is inverted with "Locked Away", which is inexplicably absent from the series despite being a perfectly clean and massive hit.
** Kidz Bop was once known for being mostly rap-free, rarely including covers of rap songs unless they had a poppy chorus or the rap parts were removed (e.g. "Live Your Life"). This is understandable, since pop is their main genre and most rap music nowadays is too explicit to be considered "kid-friendly". Fast-forward to the mid-2010s, and Kidz Bop is not only starting to include rap verses in their pop covers, but has also started covering rap songs altogether a lot more frequently, even getting away with the more R-rated ones (e.g. "Don't Mind") by rappers with highly child-unfriendly images (e.g. Music/PostMalone, Music/{{Drake}}, Music/CardiB).

%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

* LyricalDissonance: As the entry for AgeInappropriateArt points out, there are plenty of songs with dark themes that were already LyricalDissonance...and their version winds up even cheerier-sounding.
* NeverSayDie: The word is usually altered on most occasions.

** There are occasionally bizarre aversions, such as Music/{{Buckcherry}}'s "Sorry", [[Music/CeeLoGreen Gnarls]] [[Music/BrianBurton Barkely]]'s "Crazy", Music/ZaraLarsson & MNEK's "Never Forget You", Franz Ferdinand's "Take Me Out", Music/DestinysChild's "Survivor", and Music/{{Evanescence}}'s "Bring Me To Life".
* OhMyGods: Inverted; references to the Lord's name in vain are usually modified, although bizarrely left intact on some occasions, like in their cover of Music/FloridaGeorgiaLine's "Cruise (remix)".

** There are occasionally bizarre aversions, such as Music/{{Buckcherry}}'s "Sorry", [[Music/CeeLoGreen Gnarls]] [[Music/BrianBurton Barkely]]'s "Crazy", Music/ZaraLarsson & MNEK's "Never Forget You", Frank Ferdinand's "Take Me Out", Music/DestinysChild's "Survivor", and Music/{{Evanescence}}'s "Bring Me To Life".

* AdaptationalContextChange:
** In Kidz Bop's version of Music/{{Coldplay}}'s "Viva la Vida", a song told from the perspective of a fallen king, the line "Revolutionaries wait / For my head on a silver plate" is changed to "Revolutionaries wait / For my food on a silver plate" which... what? It implies the revolutionaries ''care'' about the king being well fed.
** In Kidz Bop's version of Music/TheChainsmokers' "Closer", the line "Pull the sheets right off the corner / Of that mattress that you stole" is changed to "Pull the sheets right off the corner / Of the notebook that you stole". Why are they pulling sheets out of a notebook?