My 2 year old always sings along when "Unity" By Operation Ivy comes on. He just starts yelling "WAR!!!" without the "stop this" part. It is going to get me into trouble eventually...
Fun fact: Tim Armstrong (Op Ivy, Rancid, Transplants, etc, etc, etc.) co-wrote a bunch of songs for Pink, including "Trouble" for which she won a Grammy award.
I thought that I would censor the music I play more as my kids got older, but I don't really do it very much. Music played such a big role for me when I was growing up that it seems weird to hide it from them until I decide that it is 'appropriate' or whatever. Also, the world is on fire and the leaders of every single nuclear power are stupid, insane, or both, so it probably doesn't matter if my 4 year old learns how to say fuck.
I came to the same conclusion. Particularly with hip hop because it's probably the worst genre language wise, but I just cant give it up. Hip hop, i just cant quit you, no matter how many fucks and bitches you spit The only word that really concerns me with hip hop music is the n word because I dont want my son thinking he can go around saying it
Yeah, not as big of a problem with punk music, haha. I can only think of one black punk band, actually.
My parents made me return Offspring's Smash and RHCP's One Hot Minute for "Bad Habit" and "Pea" respectively (Maybe there were a few others on the RHCP album) when I was younger. I wouldn't recommend censoring, they might grow up and listen to Technical Itch on Ecstasy.
I have a friend who's always been even more into black metal than me. He has a now 5 year old boy i guess and he's growing up with it. Other friends with young kids have asked doesn't it scare him ever (he also takes notice of the album sleeves and certain vids and posters with corpsepainted bandmembers etc.). Apparently it does not. But yeah, these other friends' kids are scared of lot of things (pretty normal at that age). Hope he doesn't get accidently traumatized
Smash was a solid album. The Offspring's Americana was actually the first CD I ever purchased, although Ixnay was my favourite album. Their new stuff is... something.