Crappy kidz music

My last posting was in March. Obviously, I have a lot to say. Here is the quick version......three b-school classes + fulltime job + new baby + jealous old baby= no time to sleep, eat, or crap, let alone write this blog. Enough about the past! Let's fast forward to August 11, 2006 and I am reading the Chicago Tribune. In the tempo section I see an article about an album called Kidz Bop 10. I have kids, they like to bop so I read on. It seems this childrens album is the most popular album in the country. When I get home I go to Itunes to listen. They take hit songs and rerecord them with kids singng instead of the original artist. PEOPLE REALLY BUY THIS!? These aren't even talented kids. I feel it's my job as a musicologist(I gave myself that title)to teach my kids about music and this is the material I'm supposed to work with? My wife once brought home a CD titled Bedtime with the Beatles by some no name artist and told me how it would help our baby go to sleep. I told her if I wanted to hear Beatles music, I would listen to the actual Beatles. Don't buy Kidz Bop 10! It will poison your your kids ears and destroy your soul.