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You’re definitely not kidding there. If I had kids, I’d love more than anything for them to get into Music. Torturing them by making them sing such a horrible song is absolutely disgusting.
@@djhorn5769 Lips of an Angel is a great song what are you talking about!? Sure the meaning and themes behind the song are wild, doesnt mean it isnt a 10/10 song.
My sister got a Kidz Bop cd for 5th or 6th birthday and immediately burst into tears. She thought our mom was punishing her. My mom didn’t know how much we (her kids) hated Kidz Bop. Overall it was one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen.
I never liked Kidz Bop either, I always rathered Now That's What I Call Music because it's just a better version of Kidz Bop plus the lyrics aren't changed
Oh dear God that hurt my ears. I mean all of them hurt me in my soul but that one hurt my ears......why would someone choose Hinder!? And the shinedown cover made me rage quit. I had to take a 5 minute break haha
They should do a cover “I cum blood” by cannibal corpse. It would be ironic if they did “suffer the children” by napalm death because the only reason for a child to listen to kids bop is if they just want to suffer.
Given how conservative some of the lyrical changes to Kidz Bop edits are I’m amazed they kept the “work sucks” line intact in their All The Small Things Cover.
@@andrewbloom7637 Given the time it came out I wouldn’t be surprised if it was him. Those kids were already tortured enough. They didn’t need him to be there too
I am 2 minutes in. A sequel is definitely in the works. My best friend and I worked at Six Flags as teens. Her store ONLY played kidz bopz. It’s been 19 years and she still cannot hear the original versions. We talk about this a lot! Godspeed to you for listening at all for this list.
Right? Kidz Bop destroys a lot of artists and makes even the originals unlistenable to people. I feel so sad that you and your friend had to stomach that shit. PTSD from this is a thing.
As a Green Day fan, it pains me to hear that they also did covers of Boulevard of Broken Dreams and Wake Me Up When September Ends. The latter is even worse when you find out they change the lyrics to "like my father" to "like the time.
This pains me for an a big Green Day fan as myself to hear, and yet I don't wanna hear a cover of something like 21 Guns, Longview, etc coming from them.
Here's a few extra songs they covered that you missed: Take Me Out by Franz Ferdinand Boulevard of Broken Dreams by Green Day Are You Gonna be My Girl by Jet Welcome to My Life by Simple Plan Headstrong by Trapt Photograph by Nickelback Higher by Creed
Their "Welcome to my Life" cover is one of the most unintentionally hilarious songs ever recorded, right up there with Christina Aguilera's version of Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.
@@danmccarthy4700I feel like it's kinda funny cuz Welcome to My Life already sounds like it was written by a 12 year old who just got grounded by his mom so I think it's the perfect Kidz Bop song lmao
Because Chester Bennington fucked up live and learn which the original is easily one of the best final boss themes. So take every linkin park album and shove ‘em up your butt.
I'm so glad you covered the Kidz Bop cover of "Bring Me to Life". My favorite part is the part during the nu metal rap bridge where the guy obviously flubs the scream and just goes "RRRUFF!!!" like a dog.
KB recordings can easily be used to torture people, just like water boarding. I’m neurodivergent and those songs freaked me out because my brain kept doing the “uncanny valley” thing.
In the Netherlands, there is an NPR children's choir called "children for children". They sing original songs often written by well-known musicians and are basically Kidz Bop done RIGHT. They really had some BANGERS especially in the 80s & 90s including, I kid you not, a girl singing a ballad about herself growing titties. The Dutch are something special :D
Please every year we were forced to dance along to one of their songs at school, I do like some of the songs still but I do not know all of them. Still better than Kidz Bop. Also do you know that a pretty famous producer and keyboardist is knighted by our king? We Dutch fans of rock and metal actually have a metal knight lol it is Joost van den Broek producer for Blind Guardian, Epica, Powerwolf, Blackbriar and more.
2:15 In The End 3:38 All The Small Things 4:30 Bring Me To Life 6:06 Girls And Boys 7:05 Feel Good, Inc. 8:27 Use Somebody 9:42 Second Chance 10:57 When I'm Gone 12:14 Sorry 13:29 Lips Of An Angel
I saw Evanescence in concert in 2012 and she cut the bridge out of "Bring Me to Life" altogether. At the time, I just kinda chalked it up to Paul McCoy not being there, but I'm not surprised that Amy Lee hates it as a nu metal anthem
And yet that part was at least listenable, without that part? The song is total garbage, but then, the band should've remained broken up when they did break up. Also, hearing Seether do "Broken" with Adam Gontier was far better than the studio version with Amy Lee.
@@DesertRainReads not to mention that according to the band and other artists who have worked with her, she's a full-scale diva and a royal pain in the ass to work with
@@werlost somehow, I find that difficult to believe. And even if it's true, I have to believe that the bridge could have been performed in concert by, I don't know, one of the male band members, seeing as Amy's the only female in the band (assuming they're still together, given Amy doing that electro-symphonic work that she claimed to have wanted to do from day one)
They also covered Wake Me Up When September Ends which is one of the less inappropriate Green Day songs but certainly fits into the trend of “weirdly depressing for a Kidz Bop album” here because clearly when I think of songs to play for my hypothetical elementary school aged child I think of a song about a man trying to process the grief of his father dying when he was young which the public (incorrectly but still) recontextualized to 9/11. At best yeah there’s some songs you grow up and realize have more mature meanings, but I still think this belongs in a potential part 2 for the “WTF were they thinking?” factor And this is coming from someone who went weirdly viral on the old Kidz Bop site at age 11 or so because that’s what you did when you wanted to make video content but mom didn’t let you have a CZcams account yet
@@bnashee Also forgot until other comments pointed it out but they did indeed also did Boulevard of Broken Dreams. Not as bad but still head scratching
Im kind of sad that Kidz Bop decided to stop covering rock songs. Just imagine if the next Kidz Bop album came out and it had Ghost and BMTH truly a loss for the music world 😔
At a client’s house a while back they left the Disney radio on. I walked into a room and heard little kids singing Tom Sawyer by Rush. Man that freaked me out. Little kids singing “catch the spirit, catch the spit” - yeah.
I remember listening to the Kidz Bop version of Thriller. The guy doing a poor imitation of Michael Jackson was one thing, but some little girl doing the Vincent Price rap was where I drew the line.
I recently saw a Ms. Mojo video about it and was knocked off my chair to hear that of all the Lil Nas X song Kidz Bop could've chosen... they picked Montero. MONTERO!!!! Possibly one of the most explicit song in his whole catalogue! They controversially changed lyrics in the song, but the fact that they chose this song AT ALL litterally had me scream in disbelief.
3 things that song is remembered for: The original video was him going to hell to become a demon; the SNL performance had a "wardrobe malfunction"; his BET Awards performance was him shagging with a lot of dudes (in a not-so family-friendly way)... ...and they actually went with that one? Cringe.
Kidz Bop started around the time I had my first kid. About '98 or '99... somewhere in there. Even back then, I couldn't see playing some Sesame Street wannabe version of a rock song for my kids. I've always just let them hear the original song, cuss words and all. My kids always thought Kidz Bop sucked and always thanked me for not subjecting them to that crap. LOL
Fun fact, I’ve used the Kidz Bop cover of bring me to life as an icebreaker when meeting new people once or twice, because they’re shocked reactions to that first wake me up is always something that can get a whole room laughing.
This is the future soundtrack to a true crime documentary. I (apparently, I don't personally remember this) knew the words to AC/DC, Bruce Springsteen, and Bon Jovi songs when I was preschool age, but at least that was just from listening to cassettes and the radio in passing and not being forced to learn and sing things so some record exec could buy his fifth yacht. These poor kids probably weren't even paid decently.
I honestly think they did this purely for the parents that want to listen to popular music around their kids... but it really fell so short very frequently. And I can't be the only one that often forgets that Buckcherry and Hinder are two seperate bands.
It's only inappropriate if its people they don't like being seen or recognised. Let 'em sing to Buckcherry 'cause they don't know what that is, but gods forbid they see two girls kissing!
I remember listening to Kidz Bop as a kid and I remember them doing two of the major hits from fuckin’ AMERICAN IDIOT. Namely “Boulevard Of Broken Dreams” and “Wake Me Up When September Ends”. I distinctly remember the Kidz Bop version of “Boulevard Of Broken Dreams” soundtracking my sadness when I couldn’t get McDonald’s one day. Yep, I was one of THOSE kids.
If anyone wants metal for your kids: Heavisaurus is a finnish band in dinosaur costumes about eating veggies and why mammoths died out! The songs are not english, but you can read the lyrics to the kids as bedroom stories if they enjoy the music and videos for it's own sake :D
It’s fairly telling that, of all the years this has existed, I have never heard anyone say one positive thing about Kidz Bop or its existence. No one seems to like it, yet they keep churning these things out. Like, does anyone actually buy these? Even for morbid curiosity purchases?
I found on Spotify Kidz Bop Good Charlotte Hold On and hearing man sing "Your mother's gone and your father hits you. This pain you cannot bear " is kind of damn creepy. The kids sing "But we all bleed the same way as you do"
Ok so former Kidz Bop kid here yes I'm partiality responsible for Bring Me To Life back then the recording booth was more like a closet and everyone recorded thier parts separately it was all one take for everyone. And clearly there's no pitch correction so the engineer had to take a bunch of vocal tracks Frankenstein it into a choir regardless of if the timing is off over a karaoke track. Despite Kidz Bop 2 and 2 going gold Razor and Tie made the recording cheap as possible for maximum profit. So if I have two gold records and they made them cheap as possible...how are my royalties? What royalties? My mom (not me) got paid 200 dollars a day.
So glad I was never forced to listen to Kidz Bop as a kid. I had already grown up on Linkin Park, Evanescence, 3 Doors Down, etc., so when one of my friends introduced me to Bring Me to Life, Kidz Bop edition, I literally screamed "no", took out that God awful disc, and jammed Fallen into the CD Player... you just do not fuck up those songs.
When I was a kid, we had a series of videos called Kidsongs. That did this concept a whole lot better, because they knew which popular songs were best for kids to sing and not make it uncomfortable. Granted, they did censor Achy Breaky Heart, but it didn't sound jarring.
I remember when Kidz Bop did an album called “Monster Ballads", which is basically a bunch of covers of 80s rock power ballads. It included a really bad cover of Poison's "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" with Bret Michaels himself on guitar, along with his daughters. But that's not all. They also butchered "Home Sweet Home" by Motley Crue, "Forever" by KISS, "I Remember You" by Skid Row, and many more. The worst offender, though, is their god-awful cover of "Patience" by Guns N' Roses. Whose idea was it to have kids sing a song that probably made them want to fall asleep when they heard it for the first time? The original is already boring and terrible to begin with, but having kids sing it makes it like 100x worse.
It's a shame the death metal version of Kidz Bop never came to be. Hearing children sing Deicides Children of the Underworld, Morbid Angel God of Emptiness, and honestly anything from Cannibal Corpse would be priceless. Buckcherry is obviously a band Kidz Bop should of covered. Think about hearing the enthusiasm they could bring by singing the Hey you're a crazy bitch but I like the way you.....oh shit maybe not a good song, but there's the poetic brilliance of Yes I'm all lit up again on the couch in my bed yes I'm all lit up again I'm flyin I love the coca....woops...I know replace cocaine with cocoa. That might work.
no WAY Kids Bop made a Linkin Park song. They are literally all about kid friendly type crap, and Linkin Park is about depression and the horrors he went trough as a kid. Kids Bop had to be rockin that white stuff when they came up with that one.
I was under the impression Kidz Bop was at least partly one of those weird religious "Try to make this secular thing palatable to the fundies who think rock music is the devil" things, so now I'm even more baffled and disgusted.
I somehow recognized that Kidz Bop was trash even when I was a kid. My mom got one for my birthday one year. Thankfully I got some games that year, too.
I wasn't expecting old man singing "work sucks" to be so friggin hilarious. Also. I would actually pay money to hear kids sing, Voices in my head, by falling in reverse.
i was *already* cringing when i saw Linkin Park and Evanescence on here, but the moment I saw "Buckcherry" on the screen i literally froze in real life, staring at the screen, trying to process if this was real. then i find out it is real. i hate everything now😞
Funny thing about Second Chance. I actually sang it at a school talent show when I was around 8-9ish, and I even got 3rd place because I was the only kid who bothered to use an actual karaoke track and didn't just sing on top of the song's existing vocals. Now, at the time, it was literally just because I liked the song. But I did go on to experience pretty horrific child abuse just a year or so later, and moved out of the house the same day I graduated high school, so it was kinda like fucked up dark comedy foreshadowing. 💀
"Bring Me to Life" suffered one of the worst cases of a studio going "Linkin Park is big how can we copy that? Lets take this lady's demo, add rap, and fuck it up" Still cherish the demo Amy recorded over the released song.
I want the un-edited version of this, I can sense some of the comments/rants you wanted to go down would have been hillarious :) Before watching this video, I would have thought these songs were at least vetted in some way for messaging, but now... what's next Longview by Green Day?
3:30 This is slightly off topic but that reminded me of one of my all time favorite bands; Kamelot. They have a song called Burns to Embrace and in that song you can hear a choir of the wife and kids (the kids can be heard a bit more) of their guitarist Thomas Youngblood doing the backing vocals and I think that was a good example of including kid vocals.
That Use Somebody cover sounds cursed. I didn’t know Kidz Bop made a cover of that song. I enjoy the heck out of Use Somebody, but seeing it being covered here, especially with the Don’t Let It Out line, will make me not see that song the same way.
I, fortunately, grew up long before Kidz Bop had even been thought about. The worst thing that people worried about when I grew up were the K-Tel albums that had 22 tracks on the records.
I remember Kidz Bop was a joke as a kid. I went to McDonald's when they were putting those CD's in Happy Meals and we laughed at Photograph by Nickelback. It was basically a censored version of the song but with kids adlibbing over it. After it became old, it ended up in the trash. Idk why these sold, despite it being an absolute chore to listen to most of the album.
True, O'Keefe blows my mind with how talented those kids truly are. They do a bang up job covering the chosen songs every time. Truly, if there is hope for the future of music? O'Keefe is it.
@@lisamoul263 Probably. I have seen a few covers by them. 46 & 2 is great, I have seen some System of a Down, too. I think they do a lot of stuff. Glad to see someone keeping rock and musicianship alive in the youth.
Kidz Bop is nothing short of a meme, even if they cover rock songs with the most angst possible. And I heard a cover of 'Mood' playing at my school gym. Yes really! There was also a gold comment during Qualitypedia when it discussed Kidz Bop in general as a part of the Horrible Music Wiki. "Imagine how Murdok would react when listening to their cover of Feel Good Inc."
My Kindergarten teacher called my parents when my answer to what is your favorite song was....... Voodoo by God Smack!.... and yes I knew every word! Just not what it meant. I only learned from my husband a few years ago what it was actually about. Turns out the song isn't about actual snakes!! 😂😮😂
Honestly, Kidz Bop as an idea is just so silly to me that I laugh every time I hear it. It's very amusing and I find great joy in it, just not for the reasons I should.
@@MetalGildartsyea, I don’t know how many times or places they toured but in 2016 they came to New York and stuff. My mom had gotten VIP passes so I got to meet them on stage and get autographs.
We simply just taught our kids that songs and movies sometimes have bad words - you are too young to use those. Our kids have always listened to my wife's and my music (within reason), because we all know they learn and hear worse at school. There is nothing cuter than listening to my 10 year old daughter singing the chorus of Pantera's "Walk" from the backseat of my truck. 😁 🤘
Why am I surprised if there's going to be a sequel to this as there's plenty especially nowadays? The stupid part is I used to enjoy it as a kid, only cause my middle school and Elementary School used it during PE that wasn't shania twain that is or the Macarana.
The saenger theatre here had kidz bop and I ironically used it to get my daughter to behave. We go there for many plays and musicals and we've been to two Ghost rituals, and going next year whenever it may be, and we went to Shinedown with pit passes right by the stage. She's ten and knows that kids bop is atrocious.
As someone who was obsessed with these as a child, Sorry is oddly nostalgic for me through their version, along with one of the McDonald's Happy Meal CDs having Kryptonite on it, which I only remember through a day with a sub in kindergarten where we just pretended to be in bands to these. As for the earlier ones, they REALLY couldn't get an even slightly better sounding adult for these?! I already knew about the Blink one, but with some of the other ones, even disregarding the subjects at hand, woof.
Notice how all of the electric guitars on these tracks are either turned way down or have very little distortion. Because a rock guitar tone in a rock song is too scary for kids I guess.
Moves Like Jagger. I never wanted to hear even the censored lyrics coming out of a child’s mouth. They had to totally rewrite that song, and it was just wrong to hear.
If y'all couldn't hear, in Feel Good Inc. kidz bop slipped up by saying: Laughing gas these hazmats, fast cats, lining em up like ass casts. They got expose for blurting the a word and not covering it up
Also, the worst official Kidz Bop cover ever has gotta be the “Ms. Jackson” cover, featuring a lily-⚪️ suburban kid singing “mee and yooo daaaaaaawwwwwwttuuuuhhhhhh”, exactly the way it is written here and sung in the original 🤦
I remember seeing the ads for these abominations on tv while watching Saturday morning cartoons with my youngest sibling back in the early 2000's and thinking to myself either "oh jesus! They made another one!?" or "Which set of song's have they butchered now?". Scary thing is that they are still making this schlock to this very day! 😳. Could you imagine if they let these kids sing "Freakers ball" by Dr. Hook and the medicine show? Highly doubtful, though holy crap!
I screamed when I saw the hybrid theory album in the thumbnail… I CANT BELIEVE THEY RUINED LINKIN PARK SONGS 😭 EDIT: WAHHHHHH IT HAD TO BE MY FAVORITE ONE TOO 😭 (In the end) (and it’s my fav song of all time too) Edit 2: NAHHHH THEY DID ONE OF THE BEST BLINK 182 SONGS TOO 😭
The most entertaining thing about Kidz Bop will always be the 2009 where McDonald's was giving out short KB CDs in their Happy Meals and parents got them pulled because they claimed they heard the word "fucking" in their version of "I Don't Want ro Be" by Gavin Degraw.
As cringy as the Kidz Bop albums are, I think it's even worse when they have them sing along with an adult. It's like your kids sitting in the backseat annoyingly screaming along to the radio while you are trying not to run off the road or hit an oncoming semi.
"I feel that exploiting children to sing pop songs on a compilation album is a cheap way to make money through cashing in on overly protective parents is awful." Only hot takes on this channel. lol
Ever notice how recorded "children singing" sound the same in everything? I'm almost certain there's a sound filter that'll make anyone sound that way. So take comfort in the fact that no children ever had to walk into a studio to record this dreck.
I remember the advertisements for the first kids bop and have been outraged ever since. Who the fuck thought a group of kids singing was a good idea? And why the fuck do people buy that shit?
I work at a kid's party rental space right now, and one day we were playing some kidz bop over the speakers. When I heard "Beggin" by Måneskin my heart dropped. I love that song, and they tore all the heart out of it
In my opinion the worse Kidz Bop song has to be their attempt at covering Gangum Style. Despite the song obviously being very lewd they couldn't resist to have kids cover it with how popular it was back in the days, so they just omitted the "sexy lady" part out and just have them go "Hey, Hey lady" like why?! Surprised they didn't make these kids sing Despacito while they were at it
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Even as a kid Kidz Bop sounded like a stupid idea to me, Hinder and Buckcherry are both actually good bands tho.
My first birthday gift I member was when I was 6 and got meteora and a radio.
Bringing your kid to a recording studio and forcing them to sing lips of an angel is probably the most solid case for CPS.
You’re definitely not kidding there. If I had kids, I’d love more than anything for them to get into Music. Torturing them by making them sing such a horrible song is absolutely disgusting.
Or maybe teach yiur kids right from wrong and lyrics qre lyrics digging a bit deep here people
@@djhorn5769 Lips of an Angel is a great song what are you talking about!? Sure the meaning and themes behind the song are wild, doesnt mean it isnt a 10/10 song.
Why not have kids sing “Little Girls” by Oingo Boingo?
Honey why you calling me so late? 🎼🎶
I’m definitely glad Kidz Bop never made a cover of SOAD’s Chop Suey.
Or The Killers’ Mr Brightside.
Or Cigaro 😂
Or Suite Pee or Sugar.
Don’t give them anymore ideas!
I hear all of you, and I raise you, Holy Mountains
My sister got a Kidz Bop cd for 5th or 6th birthday and immediately burst into tears. She thought our mom was punishing her. My mom didn’t know how much we (her kids) hated Kidz Bop. Overall it was one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen.
I never liked Kidz Bop either, I always rathered Now That's What I Call Music because it's just a better version of Kidz Bop plus the lyrics aren't changed
Awwww poor girl :( I feel bad for her, even if she’s (probably) an adult now
I legitimately screamed out "NO!" when Lips Of An Angel came up. It was a very violent reaction to just the idea of that cover existing.
Oh dear God that hurt my ears. I mean all of them hurt me in my soul but that one hurt my ears......why would someone choose Hinder!? And the shinedown cover made me rage quit. I had to take a 5 minute break haha
THE SONG IN EVERY FORM HURTS MY SOUL. IT'S JUST TERRIBLE
I literally froze in fear to that especially after knowing they covered buckcherry too
I know of somebody who danced to that at their wedding. The original. The thought haunts me to this day.
I did too!!
Kidz Bop sucks, but it would be funny as hell if they release a cover of a Cannibal Corpse song (They cover Lips Of An Angel, so it's possible).
They should cover 'in league with satan' by venom
I would love to see them cover Raining Blood
or south of heaven by slayer haha that would be amazing
It would be funnier if they did a cover of an Infant Annihilator song...
They should do a cover “I cum blood” by cannibal corpse. It would be ironic if they did “suffer the children” by napalm death because the only reason for a child to listen to kids bop is if they just want to suffer.
Given how conservative some of the lyrical changes to Kidz Bop edits are I’m amazed they kept the “work sucks” line intact in their All The Small Things Cover.
The man doing the main vocals on the Kidz Bop cover of "All the Small Things" sounds like Dan Schneider from Nickelodeon.
@@andrewbloom7637 Given the time it came out I wouldn’t be surprised if it was him. Those kids were already tortured enough. They didn’t need him to be there too
They should have redid it and said school sucks. lol
I dont understand why the company felt ''lips of an angel'' was ok though.
@@andrewbloom7637No way man Dan Schneider was a pedo
“sucks” isn’t a swear word
I am 2 minutes in. A sequel is definitely in the works.
My best friend and I worked at Six Flags as teens. Her store ONLY played kidz bopz. It’s been 19 years and she still cannot hear the original versions. We talk about this a lot!
Godspeed to you for listening at all for this list.
The train at my local mall plays nothing but Kidz Bop songs too. I feel bad for any kid who went on that train
Find her a good psychologist who can help with ptsd.
The idea of in the end irreversibly being sung by children is a fucking nightmare to me
Right? Kidz Bop destroys a lot of artists and makes even the originals unlistenable to people. I feel so sad that you and your friend had to stomach that shit. PTSD from this is a thing.
What do you mean… *a sequel?*
As a Green Day fan, it pains me to hear that they also did covers of Boulevard of Broken Dreams and Wake Me Up When September Ends. The latter is even worse when you find out they change the lyrics to "like my father" to "like the time.
Oh for-
THEY COVERED WAKE ME UP WHEN SEPTEMBER ENDS?!
@@parxboiiz Unfortunatly i am not making this up... :/
That is horrible, especially for wake me up when September ends
This pains me for an a big Green Day fan as myself to hear, and yet I don't wanna hear a cover of something like 21 Guns, Longview, etc coming from them.
Here's a few extra songs they covered that you missed:
Take Me Out by Franz Ferdinand
Boulevard of Broken Dreams by Green Day
Are You Gonna be My Girl by Jet
Welcome to My Life by Simple Plan
Headstrong by Trapt
Photograph by Nickelback
Higher by Creed
I'm surprised Luke didn't put Trapt or Simple Plan on this list
Their "Welcome to my Life" cover is one of the most unintentionally hilarious songs ever recorded, right up there with Christina Aguilera's version of Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.
@@danmccarthy4700I feel like it's kinda funny cuz Welcome to My Life already sounds like it was written by a 12 year old who just got grounded by his mom so I think it's the perfect Kidz Bop song lmao
@@benhicksbass It makes total sense when you look at it like that.
Having to sing Trapt is punishment enough without Luke making a video reminding the kids involved a decade or 2 later lol
Linkin Park is my favorite band of all time, and just immediately dropping In The End hurt my soul.. Why would they even cover it?
Because they're stupid.
Because Chester Bennington fucked up live and learn which the original is easily one of the best final boss themes. So take every linkin park album and shove ‘em up your butt.
Sam here bro. I wanted to scream!
Answer: Because Linkin Park needed the money and will happily let anyone cover their songs
Piggy McCool, they do it for fun, just to laugh
I'm so glad you covered the Kidz Bop cover of "Bring Me to Life". My favorite part is the part during the nu metal rap bridge where the guy obviously flubs the scream and just goes "RRRUFF!!!" like a dog.
Dude, that cover destroyed Evanescence completely for me. I can't even listen to them at all.
KB recordings can easily be used to torture people, just like water boarding. I’m neurodivergent and those songs freaked me out because my brain kept doing the “uncanny valley” thing.
Exactly, adding that this destroyed Evanescence for me entirely. Oh lord, I literally can't listen to them anymore thanks to this.
@@DesertRainReads That’s sad because Evanescence was awesome in concert.
@@tdsollogwhat do you mean uncanny valley thing? You're making kidz bop sound scary
@@Bullboy_Adventures Kidz Bop songs are creepy, weird, and kind of inappropriate. There are bunch of YT videos of this subject.
As a fellow neurodivergent, I can agree. I used to get so angry when certain lyrics were changed and such to make it more 'kid-friendly'.
In the Netherlands, there is an NPR children's choir called "children for children". They sing original songs often written by well-known musicians and are basically Kidz Bop done RIGHT.
They really had some BANGERS especially in the 80s & 90s including, I kid you not, a girl singing a ballad about herself growing titties. The Dutch are something special :D
Makes sense. I agree it’s a good idea
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Please every year we were forced to dance along to one of their songs at school, I do like some of the songs still but I do not know all of them. Still better than Kidz Bop. Also do you know that a pretty famous producer and keyboardist is knighted by our king? We Dutch fans of rock and metal actually have a metal knight lol it is Joost van den Broek producer for Blind Guardian, Epica, Powerwolf, Blackbriar and more.
The fact that songs from Linkin Park and Evanescence got Kids bop covers is freaking insane.
2:15 In The End
3:38 All The Small Things
4:30 Bring Me To Life
6:06 Girls And Boys
7:05 Feel Good, Inc.
8:27 Use Somebody
9:42 Second Chance
10:57 When I'm Gone
12:14 Sorry
13:29 Lips Of An Angel
THEY DID FEEL GOOD INC!? FUUUUUCCKK
i looked at this during an ad and now i'm sad, they ruined these songs D:
Can you imagine if Kidz Bop was around in the early 90s? "Kidz Bop performs Closer by Nine Inch Nails!" 😳
Kid voices: "I want to hug you like an animal..."
Or Alanis’s “Ironic”? I haven’t checked all their track lists but I wouldn’t be surprised if they actually did 😭😭
@@TheRegart I don’t think I’ve ever laughed so hard
“Kids bop preforms Break Stuff by Limp Biskit! Also Freak on a Leash by Korn!!!”
Kidz Bop Preforms “Hammer Smash Face” By Cannibal corpse!
I saw Evanescence in concert in 2012 and she cut the bridge out of "Bring Me to Life" altogether. At the time, I just kinda chalked it up to Paul McCoy not being there, but I'm not surprised that Amy Lee hates it as a nu metal anthem
the record company made evanescence put him on it.
And yet that part was at least listenable, without that part? The song is total garbage, but then, the band should've remained broken up when they did break up. Also, hearing Seether do "Broken" with Adam Gontier was far better than the studio version with Amy Lee.
@@DesertRainReads not to mention that according to the band and other artists who have worked with her, she's a full-scale diva and a royal pain in the ass to work with
@@werlost somehow, I find that difficult to believe. And even if it's true, I have to believe that the bridge could have been performed in concert by, I don't know, one of the male band members, seeing as Amy's the only female in the band (assuming they're still together, given Amy doing that electro-symphonic work that she claimed to have wanted to do from day one)
I saw Evanescence a few years ago and the song just sounds awkward with only Amy.
"Wake me up inside!"
*silence*
"Wake me up inside!"
*silence*
They also covered Wake Me Up When September Ends which is one of the less inappropriate Green Day songs but certainly fits into the trend of “weirdly depressing for a Kidz Bop album” here because clearly when I think of songs to play for my hypothetical elementary school aged child I think of a song about a man trying to process the grief of his father dying when he was young which the public (incorrectly but still) recontextualized to 9/11. At best yeah there’s some songs you grow up and realize have more mature meanings, but I still think this belongs in a potential part 2 for the “WTF were they thinking?” factor
And this is coming from someone who went weirdly viral on the old Kidz Bop site at age 11 or so because that’s what you did when you wanted to make video content but mom didn’t let you have a CZcams account yet
Genuinely its so wild that they got the kids to sing "song about billie joes dad who died"
@@bnashee Also forgot until other comments pointed it out but they did indeed also did Boulevard of Broken Dreams. Not as bad but still head scratching
Dude you are *everywhere*
@@azazellon …I mean you’re not wrong 😂
the kidz bop website? oh god…
The fact that Kidz Bop got away with covering Buckcherry and Hinder...
My soul hurts so much
2 of the worst bands ever.
@@Brittn_wolf at least they didnt do The Casualties
Im kind of sad that Kidz Bop decided to stop covering rock songs. Just imagine if the next Kidz Bop album came out and it had Ghost and BMTH truly a loss for the music world 😔
@@aidanlastname0187No
@@aidanlastname0187 Is it hard to sit with a stick that far up your ass?
@@aidanlastname0187 100% Fact.
The day Kidz Bop cover Year Zero will be the day the Rapture starts.
It would've been hilarious to hear them sing Rammestein
At a client’s house a while back they left the Disney radio on. I walked into a room and heard little kids singing Tom Sawyer by Rush. Man that freaked me out. Little kids singing “catch the spirit, catch the spit” - yeah.
Lol that is bizarre
I remember listening to the Kidz Bop version of Thriller. The guy doing a poor imitation of Michael Jackson was one thing, but some little girl doing the Vincent Price rap was where I drew the line.
It would've been funny to hear the kids sing Buckcherry's Crazy B*tch. LMAO
I said hey, you're a crazy kid, but ya hug so good I'm on top of it...
That song was my ex-fiancee's anthem.
@@ryanahr2267oof
3:20 This isn't "by kids for kids" this sounds like "by weird uncle for no one"
I recently saw a Ms. Mojo video about it and was knocked off my chair to hear that of all the Lil Nas X song Kidz Bop could've chosen... they picked Montero. MONTERO!!!! Possibly one of the most explicit song in his whole catalogue! They controversially changed lyrics in the song, but the fact that they chose this song AT ALL litterally had me scream in disbelief.
Might as well cover liberate by disturbed, where the word fuck is used more than 20 times
3 things that song is remembered for: The original video was him going to hell to become a demon; the SNL performance had a "wardrobe malfunction"; his BET Awards performance was him shagging with a lot of dudes (in a not-so family-friendly way)...
...and they actually went with that one? Cringe.
There has to be a sequel. Handz down. These covers should be the soundtrack to horror movies or even haunted houses.
Kidz Bop started around the time I had my first kid. About '98 or '99... somewhere in there. Even back then, I couldn't see playing some Sesame Street wannabe version of a rock song for my kids. I've always just let them hear the original song, cuss words and all. My kids always thought Kidz Bop sucked and always thanked me for not subjecting them to that crap. LOL
Fun fact, I’ve used the Kidz Bop cover of bring me to life as an icebreaker when meeting new people once or twice, because they’re shocked reactions to that first wake me up is always something that can get a whole room laughing.
This is the future soundtrack to a true crime documentary.
I (apparently, I don't personally remember this) knew the words to AC/DC, Bruce Springsteen, and Bon Jovi songs when I was preschool age, but at least that was just from listening to cassettes and the radio in passing and not being forced to learn and sing things so some record exec could buy his fifth yacht. These poor kids probably weren't even paid decently.
I honestly think they did this purely for the parents that want to listen to popular music around their kids... but it really fell so short very frequently.
And I can't be the only one that often forgets that Buckcherry and Hinder are two seperate bands.
5:48 funny thing is years ago someone on CZcams did a cover of Bring Me to Life as the voice of Goofy 🤪
That was SungWon Cho a.k.a. ProZD. He's a professional voice actor now but still does Goofy covers for charity.
Bet it's still a million times better than the original. XD
The Goofy cover was at least MEANT to suck, and be funny as a result. Kidz Bop should be considered a lesser war crime.
It's only inappropriate if its people they don't like being seen or recognised. Let 'em sing to Buckcherry 'cause they don't know what that is, but gods forbid they see two girls kissing!
I know Kidz Bop was bad, but I never knew they would be THIS bad. I feel bad for the children involved.
I remember listening to Kidz Bop as a kid and I remember them doing two of the major hits from fuckin’ AMERICAN IDIOT.
Namely “Boulevard Of Broken Dreams” and “Wake Me Up When September Ends”.
I distinctly remember the Kidz Bop version of “Boulevard Of Broken Dreams” soundtracking my sadness when I couldn’t get McDonald’s one day.
Yep, I was one of THOSE kids.
Hearing some of these covers made me feel dirty and wondering "god, why would these parents allow their kids to take part of this"
It amazes me how bands and record labels even allow these atrocities to happen
If anyone wants metal for your kids: Heavisaurus is a finnish band in dinosaur costumes about eating veggies and why mammoths died out! The songs are not english, but you can read the lyrics to the kids as bedroom stories if they enjoy the music and videos for it's own sake :D
*Writing it down*
It’s fairly telling that, of all the years this has existed, I have never heard anyone say one positive thing about Kidz Bop or its existence. No one seems to like it, yet they keep churning these things out. Like, does anyone actually buy these? Even for morbid curiosity purchases?
They do, I had a woman who bought a few CDs of theirs thanks to a kid on her school van route saying she liked them. It was absolute torture.
That Evanescence cover.Blink 182 and Hinder as well...just hilarious.
And Gorillaz
I found on Spotify Kidz Bop Good Charlotte Hold On and hearing man sing "Your mother's gone and your father hits you. This pain you cannot bear " is kind of damn creepy. The kids sing "But we all bleed the same way as you do"
I have never wanted to cry over a song more than hearing them deform Blink-182's work
Oh man I can’t imagine the absolute headache going through all that Kids Bop crap. Good lord. 🤕
Ok so former Kidz Bop kid here yes I'm partiality responsible for Bring Me To Life back then the recording booth was more like a closet and everyone recorded thier parts separately it was all one take for everyone. And clearly there's no pitch correction so the engineer had to take a bunch of vocal tracks Frankenstein it into a choir regardless of if the timing is off over a karaoke track. Despite Kidz Bop 2 and 2 going gold Razor and Tie made the recording cheap as possible for maximum profit.
So if I have two gold records and they made them cheap as possible...how are my royalties? What royalties? My mom (not me) got paid 200 dollars a day.
Dude that’s horrible…..
God this needs more upvotes
So glad I was never forced to listen to Kidz Bop as a kid. I had already grown up on Linkin Park, Evanescence, 3 Doors Down, etc., so when one of my friends introduced me to Bring Me to Life, Kidz Bop edition, I literally screamed "no", took out that God awful disc, and jammed Fallen into the CD Player... you just do not fuck up those songs.
At 10:53 I accidentally misread 3 Doors Down as The Doors at first and came very close to losing all will to live
When I was a kid, we had a series of videos called Kidsongs. That did this concept a whole lot better, because they knew which popular songs were best for kids to sing and not make it uncomfortable. Granted, they did censor Achy Breaky Heart, but it didn't sound jarring.
I remember when Kidz Bop did an album called “Monster Ballads", which is basically a bunch of covers of 80s rock power ballads. It included a really bad cover of Poison's "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" with Bret Michaels himself on guitar, along with his daughters. But that's not all. They also butchered "Home Sweet Home" by Motley Crue, "Forever" by KISS, "I Remember You" by Skid Row, and many more.
The worst offender, though, is their god-awful cover of "Patience" by Guns N' Roses. Whose idea was it to have kids sing a song that probably made them want to fall asleep when they heard it for the first time? The original is already boring and terrible to begin with, but having kids sing it makes it like 100x worse.
It's a shame the death metal version of Kidz Bop never came to be. Hearing children sing Deicides Children of the Underworld, Morbid Angel God of Emptiness, and honestly anything from Cannibal Corpse would be priceless.
Buckcherry is obviously a band Kidz Bop should of covered. Think about hearing the enthusiasm they could bring by singing the Hey you're a crazy bitch but I like the way you.....oh shit maybe not a good song, but there's the poetic brilliance of Yes I'm all lit up again on the couch in my bed yes I'm all lit up again I'm flyin I love the coca....woops...I know replace cocaine with cocoa. That might work.
Having them sing Infant Annihilator songs lmao
@@DragonGrafx-16 Archspire would be funny and messy.
no WAY Kids Bop made a Linkin Park song. They are literally all about kid friendly type crap, and Linkin Park is about depression and the horrors he went trough as a kid. Kids Bop had to be rockin that white stuff when they came up with that one.
I was under the impression Kidz Bop was at least partly one of those weird religious "Try to make this secular thing palatable to the fundies who think rock music is the devil" things, so now I'm even more baffled and disgusted.
I somehow recognized that Kidz Bop was trash even when I was a kid. My mom got one for my birthday one year. Thankfully I got some games that year, too.
I wasn't expecting old man singing "work sucks" to be so friggin hilarious.
Also. I would actually pay money to hear kids sing, Voices in my head, by falling in reverse.
i was *already* cringing when i saw Linkin Park and Evanescence on here, but the moment I saw "Buckcherry" on the screen i literally froze in real life, staring at the screen, trying to process if this was real. then i find out it is real. i hate everything now😞
Funny thing about Second Chance. I actually sang it at a school talent show when I was around 8-9ish, and I even got 3rd place because I was the only kid who bothered to use an actual karaoke track and didn't just sing on top of the song's existing vocals.
Now, at the time, it was literally just because I liked the song. But I did go on to experience pretty horrific child abuse just a year or so later, and moved out of the house the same day I graduated high school, so it was kinda like fucked up dark comedy foreshadowing. 💀
Between this and Clint Eastwood being on Trolls... It's like if someone wanted to make a kid friendly version of The Boys.
"Bring Me to Life" suffered one of the worst cases of a studio going "Linkin Park is big how can we copy that? Lets take this lady's demo, add rap, and fuck it up"
Still cherish the demo Amy recorded over the released song.
I want the un-edited version of this, I can sense some of the comments/rants you wanted to go down would have been hillarious :)
Before watching this video, I would have thought these songs were at least vetted in some way for messaging, but now... what's next Longview by Green Day?
3:30 This is slightly off topic but that reminded me of one of my all time favorite bands; Kamelot. They have a song called Burns to Embrace and in that song you can hear a choir of the wife and kids (the kids can be heard a bit more) of their guitarist Thomas Youngblood doing the backing vocals and I think that was a good example of including kid vocals.
That Use Somebody cover sounds cursed. I didn’t know Kidz Bop made a cover of that song. I enjoy the heck out of Use Somebody, but seeing it being covered here, especially with the Don’t Let It Out line, will make me not see that song the same way.
They did Thriftshop by mackelmore once. "Walk into the club like, what up, i got a cool mom"
I, fortunately, grew up long before Kidz Bop had even been thought about. The worst thing that people worried about when I grew up were the K-Tel albums that had 22 tracks on the records.
Luke: "Wake me up", its like goofy singing
Me: (getting flashbacks)
I remember Kidz Bop was a joke as a kid. I went to McDonald's when they were putting those CD's in Happy Meals and we laughed at Photograph by Nickelback. It was basically a censored version of the song but with kids adlibbing over it. After it became old, it ended up in the trash. Idk why these sold, despite it being an absolute chore to listen to most of the album.
On the flipside, you could do O'Keefe Music Foundation where the kids play all the music themselves. Sober is phenomenal.
True, O'Keefe blows my mind with how talented those kids truly are. They do a bang up job covering the chosen songs every time. Truly, if there is hope for the future of music? O'Keefe is it.
Was that who covered Duality from Slipknot? I came across it a few years ago and the kids were amazing on their instruments and vocals.
@@lisamoul263 Probably. I have seen a few covers by them. 46 & 2 is great, I have seen some System of a Down, too. I think they do a lot of stuff. Glad to see someone keeping rock and musicianship alive in the youth.
I have always thought KidsBop was super annoying and a little creepy. This album just takes it to another level. Hope this isn't played in daycares!
Kidz Bop is nothing short of a meme, even if they cover rock songs with the most angst possible. And I heard a cover of 'Mood' playing at my school gym. Yes really!
There was also a gold comment during Qualitypedia when it discussed Kidz Bop in general as a part of the Horrible Music Wiki. "Imagine how Murdok would react when listening to their cover of Feel Good Inc."
My Kindergarten teacher called my parents when my answer to what is your favorite song was....... Voodoo by God Smack!.... and yes I knew every word! Just not what it meant. I only learned from my husband a few years ago what it was actually about. Turns out the song isn't about actual snakes!! 😂😮😂
Ooh 😮
Honestly, Kidz Bop as an idea is just so silly to me that I laugh every time I hear it. It's very amusing and I find great joy in it, just not for the reasons I should.
As a kid I loved kidz bop, looking back now I’m like wtf was my mom thinking. I even saw them live in concert one time
Wait they toured!?
@@MetalGildartsyea, I don’t know how many times or places they toured but in 2016 they came to New York and stuff. My mom had gotten VIP passes so I got to meet them on stage and get autographs.
We simply just taught our kids that songs and movies sometimes have bad words - you are too young to use those. Our kids have always listened to my wife's and my music (within reason), because we all know they learn and hear worse at school. There is nothing cuter than listening to my 10 year old daughter singing the chorus of Pantera's "Walk" from the backseat of my truck. 😁 🤘
Shout out to that one Brad Taste In Music not-a-scam stream that featured several of these and kept forcing him to restart In The End.
Why am I surprised if there's going to be a sequel to this as there's plenty especially nowadays? The stupid part is I used to enjoy it as a kid, only cause my middle school and Elementary School used it during PE that wasn't shania twain that is or the Macarana.
The saenger theatre here had kidz bop and I ironically used it to get my daughter to behave. We go there for many plays and musicals and we've been to two Ghost rituals, and going next year whenever it may be, and we went to Shinedown with pit passes right by the stage. She's ten and knows that kids bop is atrocious.
As someone who was obsessed with these as a child, Sorry is oddly nostalgic for me through their version, along with one of the McDonald's Happy Meal CDs having Kryptonite on it, which I only remember through a day with a sub in kindergarten where we just pretended to be in bands to these. As for the earlier ones, they REALLY couldn't get an even slightly better sounding adult for these?! I already knew about the Blink one, but with some of the other ones, even disregarding the subjects at hand, woof.
Notice how all of the electric guitars on these tracks are either turned way down or have very little distortion. Because a rock guitar tone in a rock song is too scary for kids I guess.
I immediately screamed in horror when Feel Good Inc. was brought up. And oh boy… it was loud.
Moves Like Jagger. I never wanted to hear even the censored lyrics coming out of a child’s mouth. They had to totally rewrite that song, and it was just wrong to hear.
If y'all couldn't hear, in Feel Good Inc. kidz bop slipped up by saying: Laughing gas these hazmats, fast cats, lining em up like ass casts. They got expose for blurting the a word and not covering it up
Also, the worst official Kidz Bop cover ever has gotta be the “Ms. Jackson” cover, featuring a lily-⚪️ suburban kid singing “mee and yooo daaaaaaawwwwwwttuuuuhhhhhh”, exactly the way it is written here and sung in the original 🤦
I have a suggsetion: 10 Awful Punk Goes Pop Songs (even they are covers of pop songs)
I remember seeing the ads for these abominations on tv while watching Saturday morning cartoons with my youngest sibling back in the early 2000's and thinking to myself either "oh jesus! They made another one!?" or "Which set of song's have they butchered now?". Scary thing is that they are still making this schlock to this very day! 😳. Could you imagine if they let these kids sing "Freakers ball" by Dr. Hook and the medicine show? Highly doubtful, though holy crap!
Im 13 and my ex-step-sister who turned 12 at that time only listened to Kidz Bop and those generic radio songs,she also had CZcams Kids.Blew my mind.
The, "na na na" sounds like kids jovially chewing with open mouths... Yuck.
Just imagine if they made a cover of down with the sickness by disturbed
I screamed when I saw the hybrid theory album in the thumbnail… I CANT BELIEVE THEY RUINED LINKIN PARK SONGS 😭
EDIT: WAHHHHHH IT HAD TO BE MY FAVORITE ONE TOO 😭 (In the end) (and it’s my fav song of all time too)
Edit 2: NAHHHH THEY DID ONE OF THE BEST BLINK 182 SONGS TOO 😭
Kids singing the song "All The Small Things" is creepy in general, especially because they do not know what the lyrics mean 🤮
A Kidz Bop cover of Lips of an Angel is like getting them to cover "It wasn't me" by Shaggy
Kidz Bop even covered Headstrong by Trapt. imagine that
The most entertaining thing about Kidz Bop will always be the 2009 where McDonald's was giving out short KB CDs in their Happy Meals and parents got them pulled because they claimed they heard the word "fucking" in their version of "I Don't Want ro Be" by Gavin Degraw.
As cringy as the Kidz Bop albums are, I think it's even worse when they have them sing along with an adult. It's like your kids sitting in the backseat annoyingly screaming along to the radio while you are trying not to run off the road or hit an oncoming semi.
"I feel that exploiting children to sing pop songs on a compilation album is a cheap way to make money through cashing in on overly protective parents is awful."
Only hot takes on this channel. lol
I am pretty sure the kids who sang the hinder song regretted it when they found out the meanning
Ever notice how recorded "children singing" sound the same in everything? I'm almost certain there's a sound filter that'll make anyone sound that way. So take comfort in the fact that no children ever had to walk into a studio to record this dreck.
I remember the advertisements for the first kids bop and have been outraged ever since. Who the fuck thought a group of kids singing was a good idea? And why the fuck do people buy that shit?
I work at a kid's party rental space right now, and one day we were playing some kidz bop over the speakers. When I heard "Beggin" by Måneskin my heart dropped. I love that song, and they tore all the heart out of it
I would love to see a part two of this video.
In my opinion the worse Kidz Bop song has to be their attempt at covering Gangum Style. Despite the song obviously being very lewd they couldn't resist to have kids cover it with how popular it was back in the days, so they just omitted the "sexy lady" part out and just have them go "Hey, Hey lady" like why?! Surprised they didn't make these kids sing Despacito while they were at it
Rumor has it there’s an unreleased kidz bop cover of “It Wasn’t Me” by Shaggy
Don't forget about Headstrong by Trapt! Yeah, that was on a Kidz bop Album. Hell most adults don't even want to listen to trapt.
True, I don't call them "Crapt" for nothing. The lead singer is an asshole to boot.