Songs for 13-year-olds

[avram]

Chris and I went to the bat mitzvah of a relative of mine on Saturday. Just the reception; the actual ceremony was in the morning. My bar mitzvah reception was mostly for my relatives (I realized in retrospect once I had the perspective of adulthood); this one was for the 13-year-olds. The deejay spent the whole evening working the crowd pretty hard. I can’t imagine what it must be like to have that much energy. I even danced a bit.

Chris and I kept track of the songs played whose lyrics would probably be considered innappropriate if most people listened to lyrics. (Which they don’t. Would the Reagan campaign have referenced “Born in the USA” if they’d realized that it’s a song about how crappy life is for working-class Americans?) There was Donna Summers’s “Bad Girls”, about streetwalkers, and Michael Jackson’s “Billie Jean”, about an out-of-wedlock pregnancy. We expected the Divinyls’ “I Touch Myself” at any moment.

Comments

[holyoutlaw.livejournal.com]

My niece's bat mitzvah had a hard-workin' deejay too. He played lots of those kid groups where the girls all sound like Prince on helium. Wah. I'm sure they had plenty of inappropriate lyrics, too.

But the most inappropriate thing, as far as I was concerned, was one of her father's cousins is a Frank Sinatra impersonator. He sang "The Lady is a Tramp" and dedicated it to Monica Lewinsky. Blech.

[kiya]

The one bat mitzvah I ever attended included "Doing the Butt", complete with the honoree and several others with strap-on, plastic buttucks.

Ayup

[bigscary.livejournal.com]

Lucky you. Songs that are inappropriate only if you pay attention.

At my sister's bat mitzvah, just this fall, they played Nelly's "Hot In Here" It is supremely UNAMUSING to see your little sister dancing to and singing along to such a song.

My party was for my family.
My brother's party was for "The Hungarians"(TM) (our maternal grandmother's friends)
My sister's party was for her friends.

I enjoyed, to some extent, the first two. The last was NO FUN.

[almeda.livejournal.com]

My sweetie mentioned only last night how entirely filthy 'Oh, I've got a brand new pair of rollerskates, you've got a brand new key' (title and author unknown - oldies station) was, really. He'd never heard it before. I'd always thought it was fun to sing. :->

[avram]

"Good golly, Miss Molly, you sure like to ball."

"Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered"

[(Anonymous)]

Hell, listen to B, B & B sometime. (People have been singing about sex for a long time. Even before the Godless 60s.)
Matt