Pelt me with stones if you will, but only those of you innocent of guilty music pleasures.

Explanation perhaps?

Well, you asked for it.


Who are the role models for 7-11 year olds?

What music do they listen to where they can find these role models?

Pink? Britney Spears? Amy Whinehouse? Whatevers in the charts really.

Pink, though definitly a singer i like, her music is often about sex, or drugs. Though her worse lyrics might be blanked out on the radio, if kids like her and want to buy her CD, theres swearing, anger, and a whole lot of sex 9 times out of 10.

Britney Spears, encouraging of wearing little clothing, her breakdown, though not something i judge, should NOT have been in the media eye. How can kids look up to her?

Amy Whinehouse...Well. Im sure you know where im going with that one.

Chart music? Often bad, with one hit wonders or sex obsessed rappers. Ofc there are times when there is good music, i like some pop even, but theres noone kids can go, Well, he's awesome, i wanna be like him, or Shes great at this, i want to be like her.


To quote pink, they just want to be "Stupid." Dont care about an education, they'll marry rich and life live young.


Then comes along High School Musical. Terrible singing, terrible acting, terrible plot...Terribleness in general. But suddenly, something for that age group. Not too young to be patronising, not too old to be suggestive.

Clean. Fun. Simple.

So from that we move on to Hannah Montana/ Miley Cyrus. She's no Mickey Mouse, not by a long shot, but now theres clean, fun, simple TV programs with the music. Even a film now. Again, bad music, not so amazing singing, and terrible terrible TV shows.

But something for them where there is nothing else.

And then come the Jonas Brothers. Instantly judging by the Disney label, I did as everyone else did and kinda went, "Ergh, gawd what a load of rubbish."

But their music is okay. Its clean, its pop, its the boyband we've complained we've been missing for years.

And they are good guys. Christians as well.

They set good examples. They let kids be drawn to something that wont mess up their heads.

And so, whether it hits my apparent cool-ness or not, i admire them =)