I went to iTunes to look for possible children’s music to get for my daughter for Christmas. There’s a lot of hip stuff out there nowadays; Dan Zanes (late of the Del Fuegos) has recorded half a dozen albums aimed at children, They Might Be Giants have done at least two discs worth of kids’ stuff, Jason Falkner did two discs worth of instrumental versions of Beatles songs, and, as a parent, let me assure you that your children could do a whole lot worse than the Wiggles or Ralph’s World.
When I went to the homepage for Children’s Music on iTunes, however, they had a list of new albums as well as holiday favorites…and on the new albums, for some reason, they’re pitching the latest Bowling For Soup disc (which, unless I’m mistaken, isn’t specifically aimed at kids), and in the holiday favorites, there’s actually a song called “I Farted On Santa’s Lap (Now Christmas Is Going To Stink For Me),” by the Little Stinkers. This is actually on the Children’s Music page.
Come on, give me a break.
I can buy into the fact that Bowling for Soup is goofy fun that anyone of any age can like (“1985” was a staple on Radio Disney), but do we really need to stoop to intentionally handing our kids fart jokes? It’s not like there aren’t enough of them around, and it’s not even like they aren’t funny (Einsten proved that farting = hilarity), but, seriously, don’t go out of your way to dumb my kid down, all right? They might be funny, but they’re not “children’s music” by any stretch of the imagination.
