Posts Tagged ‘MTV’

  • 2011 KidVid Tournament: Ella Jenkins Regional

    Mar 19, 11 • In Music

    I hope you did your duty and participated in the first round of voting yesterday — Out with the Kids embedded those videos all nice and pretty for you, and if we don’t exercise our voting rights, that just invites unscrupulous people to come and take advantage of the process. How do you think Raffi won all those Grammys? (Note: I don’t know if Raffi has actually won any Grammys. But he seems shifty.) Anyway, today we’ve moved on to the Ella Jenkins Regional, and four more videos fighting to make it to the next round. Let’s watch, and then head over to Ages 3 and Up to vote! #1 Seed: John Upchurch and Mark Greenberg, “A Counting Error” I don’t know how I’ve missed hearing this song until now, but it’s great — and

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  • CD Review: “MeeWee: Hip-Hop for Kids”

    Feb 26, 09 • In Music

    MeeWee: Hip-Hop for Kids (2008, MeeWee Entertainment) purchase this album (Amazon) To those of us who grew up during hip-hop’s mid-to-late ’80s golden era, the idea of a hip-hop album for kids may seem silly and unnecessary; after all, you can play a lot of those old hits without worrying about objectionable content. (My daughter, for instance, developed an intense appreciation for Heavy D at a very early age.) And then there’s this project’s name: MeeWee? Seriously? When I first heard about this album, I didn’t even want to say the title, let alone listen to the music. Here’s the good news, then: MeeWee: Hip-Hop for Kids is much better than its title. It isn’t as much fun as the hip-hop hits you remember from your younger days, but for the most part, it avoids

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