Kidz Bop Research Paper

The music industry is one of the most lucrative forms of entertainment today. Music is the one thing that is universal, it overrides any language, and is accessible to everyone all over the world. Pop, Rap, Hip-Hop, Classical, any genre can bring a whole range of emotions to any individual, music is powerful. It is when people start to mess with the message and idea of music for a quick buck, does a problem arise. The greedy have taken advantage of a market, that can not fight back, and does not know any better, children. One music company has used the youth of today to rip-off, and ruin some of music’s current radio hits, and they still have power because they advertise to children, so that they beg their parents to buy these albums for them. That company is Kidz Bop. Kidz Bop’s covers of songs are redundant to the original artist’s version of the songs.
The artist’s version of their songs are being robbed of value by Kidz Bop re-recording them. It makes sense to make sure that the songs that are being produced are appropriate for children to
Kids today listen to music in one of three places, the radio, television, or the internet. When they are listening to the versions playing, they are listening to most likely an original version of the song recorded by the original artist. If that song is inappropriate in any way, in radio and television, on most stations that are “family friendly” these songs must also be “family friendly”, so a clean version of that song is played; recorded by the original artist. This defeats the purpose of Kidz Bop making these songs clean. There is also the possibility that the child goes online to listen to this music, where most likely it is uncensored, also defeating the one purpose of Kidz Bop. Kidz Bop does nothing to these songs besides changing the vocals then. This leaves the kids and parents to listen to what is essentially children singing