Did you realize how much sexual expression was in a song that you loved as a child?
I was naive to the understanding of lyrics until I began paying attention just this last year. I sang them as a child and thought of them as just a song to sing. But as we listened to the one hit wonders of the eighties in cycle class, I asked well why didn't we get to hear Wild Wild West. The cycle instructor tells me that is because of the lyrics.
This song isn't nearly as bad as a few others but yes it says give me safe sex and also talks of handing out Valiums.
Now I am researching just how many songs that I loved back in the 80's and 90's weren't really suitable for me to listen to as a child. I am amazed at just how many were not suitable. You've got Madonna, Charlie Daniels Band, Aerosmith, Pearl Jam, Michael Jackson just to name a few artists. Now I find myself listening to the music's lyrics or looking them up on Google. I do what I can to keep my child from hearing them. But, it's everywhere. No matter how much I try to make sure he doesn't hear them, I find him singing along to "single ladies" which was on Alvin and the Chipmunks second movie.
We are completely surrounded in this culture and sadly it's impossible to block everything out. I do my best not to make a big deal out of it and hope that he is just as naive as I once was to the lyrics of the music we love to sing.
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