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Am I crazy or are the comments in this thread all about different ages? Well, I'll defend the existence of children's music.

Children's music is great for teaching young children (under the age of 2) the basics of music. A clear melody (often in C major), simple rhythm, some basic song structure, rhyming lyrics, and lots and lots of repetition gets children listening and singing at an age before they can form coherent sentences. These are skills they learn to encourage not just later composition and performance of music, but also basic human functions like speaking and listening.

They're doing it with their books, their TV shows, and their games, too. Developmentally appropriate material is important for learning that category of art or culture, and provides a basis to build on after that.

My 6 year old says Wu Tang is for the children anytime their music comes on lmao

Your parents played kid music? Mine played The Pogues. Which I suppose isn't exactly inappropriate for children.

Bluey soundtrack pretty great

My kids have an amazingly eclectic taste in music because (I'm convinced anyways) we never did the kid music thing.

Does Babymetal count as music for the babies?

It'll make them better adjusted. Playing music specifically for children shelters them and is going to make them alienated from their average peer.

You just also have to teach them that in school (and later professional/work contexts) they keep their words clean for the puritans that walk amongst them.

TO THW WINDOOOOWWW TO THE WALL

Getting told Linkin Park is old people music feels worse

My heart was about to burst with pride when my kids asked to add Meshuggah to their playlist.

If your kids aren't shouting "Oi, oi, oi, oi" to AC/DC's TNT, are you even a real father?

I love how, almost without exception, every parent of a single-digit-age kid's so proud that their offspring enjoys the same music that they do. Things (generally) change DRASTICALLY shortly after they reach that second digit.

Do people actually play kids music to kids? I thought that stuff was exclusively used for background noise in YouTube kids Elsa impregnation videos.

My little daughter got her own baby music, but she enjoys listening to the Temptations, Apollo Brown or Gojira with me. She knows Daddy doesn't play her shit.

I bop to Kidz Bop.

Only time I had "kid" music must have been when I was, like, a toddler. Because I don't remember a single time getting in my mom's car without Boyz II Men or something playing. I didn't even get to suggest music to play until I was in college 😅

Well my 3 year old always asks for Kraftwerk and my 5 year old likes the pumpkins (not my first choice billys voice sounds like a mentally handicapped kitten being drowned in engine oil).

My six year old niece on her first day of school after riding with my wife all afternoon the previous day.

My neck, my back
Lick my pu...

The teacher:

I could put on an Aerosmith record before I knew how to put my Disney VHS tapes in the VCR, of course then my older cousin brought over her Master of Puppets album and I fell in love with thrash. As she still likes to remind me, "I turned you into a metal head before you were out of diapers". I still love the classics too BTW.

My kids are well aware that the Wu is not to be fucked with.

But as ODB said, "Wu-Tang is for the children"

When my son was three, in the back seat of the used squad car I was driving at the time, Beastie Boys would come on: "LOUDER, DADDY!"

Bummelkasten Ultras !!!

My daughter loves rage against the machine and jazz24. However ever since I showed her the Sound of Music (1965) to introduce the topic of fascism and Nazis to her, she's been listening to that nonstop. Its a great film with a great soundtrack though so I can't complain too much. Still, slowly weaning her off. Maybe I should have let her watch the producers?