I have a 12-year-old girl who knows every single word to this song and dances every move to it. Recently they played it 3 times at her first homecoming dance in the school, along with many other questionable rap lyric songs. Of course, everyone loves it!! Of course, everyone loves to dance to it. She even commented that once she gets to senior high the kids in those dances "get to" "grind" to the songs. I feel disappointment and sadness that beyond all this rhetoric and blogging back and forth, the real loss is to my child...her innocence and growing up are profoundly affected every way she turns, by the media, by the radio, by the rappers culture. I don't begrudge them their stories...but they are not the stories of middle class pre-teens that we are trying to raise in America. It is pathetic!!!
I have a 12-year-old girl who knows every single word to this song and dances every move to it. Recently they played it 3 times at her first homecoming dance in the school, along with many other questionable rap lyric songs. Of course, everyone loves it!! Of course, everyone loves to dance to it. She even commented that once she gets to senior high the kids in those dances "get to" "grind" to the songs. I feel disappointment and sadness that beyond all this rhetoric and blogging back and forth, the real loss is to my child...her innocence and growing up are profoundly affected every way she turns, by the media, by the radio, by the rappers culture. I don't begrudge them their stories...but they are not the stories of middle class pre-teens that we are trying to raise in America. It is pathetic!!!