So would that be Ariel or Jasmine?
You know I don't often post cute stories about my (now 4-year-old) kids, but I think you'll understand why I can't resist sharing this conversation from the ride home today.
Margalit: Mommy, I want the song about the princess.
Gina: What princess?
Margalit: The motherfucking princess.
My work here is done.
Bonus for Dave. When we got home after listening to that mix, Milo started singing, "I'm the girl who's kicking the Coke machine."
Comments
My kids love that song too! But they call it the "No way, no way" song. I think there actually is a sanitized version of the song for kids, but I play them the original. I'm quite sure that you do as well.
Posted by: Deborah | February 19, 2008 8:58 PM
This is just a sly way to test the waters for a parenting book, right?
Anon
Posted by: Anon | February 19, 2008 9:06 PM
Would suggest the Spanish, Japanese, Mandarin, German, Portuguese, French, or Italian version but all of them just bleep out "mothafuckin."
Sometime around 2005 I found myself singing "kicking the Coke machine" in a London tube station much louder than I thought. Don't think anyone noticed/cared (UK more accepting of public pop displays among weird dudes maybe).
Posted by: Dave | February 19, 2008 10:48 PM
Best bet is the remix with Lil' Mama, which is better anyway.
Posted by: Dave | February 19, 2008 10:52 PM
If you want to hear pop stars and role models say "motherfuckin'" on live tv, you gotta go to Mexico.
Posted by: Frank | February 20, 2008 7:57 AM
Kids are like farts: When they are yours they don't smell so bad.
Can we get back to the real issues? Like why the N.Y. Time won't print the words "fuck" or "cunt?"
Posted by: Jess Wonderin | February 20, 2008 12:30 PM
Breaking news: The New York Times reports that your tyke "has been heard using a common 13-letter obscenity."
Posted by: John Tabin | February 20, 2008 4:27 PM
I never worry too much about playing songs with inappropriate words around my kids (seven and nine) because they will invariably hear them wrong (even though they are acquainted with most obscenities *bad, bad parents*) and sing along with something really hilarious and yet strangely appropriate.
Posted by: scoxsmith | February 21, 2008 11:01 AM
because they will invariably hear them wrong ... and sing along with something really hilarious
I now get to picture Daniel saying "That's adorable, but the word is 'motherfucking'."
Posted by: Charles | February 21, 2008 11:09 AM
In support of scoxsmith, yesterday on the way home Margalit announced that she wanted to hear the song about the monkey fucking princess.
Posted by: Gina | February 21, 2008 10:42 PM
Is "monkey" really an improvement over "mother"?
IMHO, if so, only marginally so.
Posted by: Abe | February 25, 2008 6:56 AM