Kidz Bop 21: How the Kiddie Cover Song Franchise Makes Pop Stars Like LMFAO   Katy Perry Child-Safe - AOL Music Blog Posted on Jan 24th 2012 3:10PM by Sarah Kurchak ‘Kidz Bop 21’ debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 albums chart this week, which means that only Adele’s unstoppable album, also called ‘21,’ has sold more copies in the past week than a compilation album that features prepubescent session musicians singing today’s biggest hits. […] To get to the bottom of this phenomenon, we here at AOL Music studied ‘Kidz Bop 21’ in detail and used a very, uh, scientific process to determine just how kidzified these revamps actually are. ‘This City’ Original Artist: Patrick Stump ft. Lupe FiascoKidzification Factor: 63 Percent Apparently it’s OK to talk about political and environmental issues in the abstract in the Kidz Bopiverse, as “Forget all the drugs and gangs corruption and pollution no” is only slightly altered to become “Forget all the trouble, corruption and pollution no.” No more detail is allowed, though, as neither Stump’s album version verse about slums and unethical politicians nor Lupe’s pointed observations on racism and property value from the single version make the cut here. Photo by Erika Goldring, Getty Images
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Kidz Bop 21: How the Kiddie Cover Song Franchise Makes Pop Stars Like LMFAO   Katy Perry Child-Safe - AOL Music Blog

Posted on Jan 24th 2012 3:10PM by Sarah Kurchak

‘Kidz Bop 21’ debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 albums chart this week, which means that only Adele’s unstoppable album, also called ‘21,’ has sold more copies in the past week than a compilation album that features prepubescent session musicians singing today’s biggest hits. […]

To get to the bottom of this phenomenon, we here at AOL Music studied ‘Kidz Bop 21’ in detail and used a very, uh, scientific process to determine just how kidzified these revamps actually are.

‘This City’

Original Artist: Patrick Stump ft. Lupe Fiasco
Kidzification Factor: 63 Percent

Apparently it’s OK to talk about political and environmental issues in the abstract in the Kidz Bopiverse, as “Forget all the drugs and gangs corruption and pollution no” is only slightly altered to become “Forget all the trouble, corruption and pollution no.” No more detail is allowed, though, as neither Stump’s album version verse about slums and unethical politicians nor Lupe’s pointed observations on racism and property value from the single version make the cut here.

Photo by Erika Goldring, Getty Images

Source: blog.music.aol.com

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