If you have any tweens or teens around the house, or if you simply like to listen to Top 40 Radio, you’ve heard Flo Rida’s song “Low.” It has the line…”Apple bottom jeans…Boots with the fur…” and so on. LilZ and his friends love the song and have therefore been trying to teach it to NikkiZ. She’s gotten that first like down (pronouncing “fur” as “sur”) but the rest was unimportant to her.
Yesterday, Ellen DeGeneres had Flo Rida on her show and he sang the song for NikkiZ and I and she made me replay it five times. She now sings various lines throughout the song and emphatically repeats the, “Low, low, low, low…” part when he sings it. It’s quite hysterical and LilZ had her performing for his friends on the phone last night.
And for one split second it occurred to me that may that’s not the most appropriate song to teach my child. One split second. Then the cuteness value won out and we encouraged her some more.
The first song LilZ learned the lyrics to by listening to it play on the CD player in the car was “Blister in the Sun” by the Violent Femmes. I didn’t realize he had been paying attention that much to the music in the car until one day I heard him say, “I’m high as a kite I just might stop to check you out.”
I’m nothing if not the kind of mother that exposes her children to the Arts when they are young. It’s very important, you know.
Tell NikkiZ “thank you” for clearing up the line “with the fur” for me. I’ve been singing with the “spurs”, even though it didn’t make much sense to me. My two teenagers always laugh at me….
The kids at the daycare sing that song - and it’s so annoying because I tell them it’s inappropriate and I get the “WHY!?”
And I am totally guilty of using the “Because I said so” line. Then, I was driving and scanning through radio stations and it came on, and it’s totally catchy! I had it stuck in my head for ages. Gr 
I am usually a Lurker but this made me come out of the corner. My daughter Alyssa is 17 months old and when we were watching Ellen yesterday she sang the song but her words were “No, No, No, No,” All I could do was laugh and all last night she went around singing her version which I guess is the kid friendly version!!!
I thought I was the worst mommy for this!! The firs time I realized that my precious little darling was actually listening to mommy in the car, was when she started singing along with me to Big and Rich’s Save A Horse (Ride A Cowboy). Cute, but not appropriate. It also became the first time I said “Don’t let your father hear you say that!”
Glad you are feeling better. Being sick sucks.
I can say that I haven’t heard this song…but we need to see/hear her sing it!!
I think this is a video moment!
My daughters 1st song she learned was Eminems ‘Slim Shady’. because her name is Sadie and she thought they were saying ‘Slim Sadie’ so the song was all about her.
we must have video!
So terrible. So inappropriate. And yes, a video would be most welcome. I remember when my nephew was NikkiZ’s age and loved to sing along to Ginuwine’s “Pony.” Sample lyrics: “You’re horny/Let’s do it/Ride it/My pony…” Hopefully he thought it was about an actual pony ride…
I agree, we simply must have video of this!!
I love the Violent Femmes. Good first song for LilZ. We used to sing the waiting for the bus song while waiting on the school bus. Ah, good times.
my 3 year old thinks the line about giving her big bootie a slap is HI-larious. makes me giggle just thinking about it.
we are awful. shameful.
too cute. my nephew’s first songs were “Black Coffee In Bed” and “Tempted” by Squeeze.
Big hands, I know you’re the one.
Funny. Do you remember jellie jackets? My older sister and I told my younger sister it was called a prophylactic. We didn’t know what it was, but we knew it was bad. After leaving a movie theater with my mother, my younger sister was skipping along besides us singing “I have a prophylactic.” My mother almost killed us.
My daughter (now 15) was singing the Grateful Dead’s “Casey Jones” when she was about 5 or 6 years old…”drivin’ that train…high on cocaine…Casey Jones you better watch your speed”. Oy!
hahahah…Beans hasn’t heard that song too often, but when she hears it, it definitely catches her attention. You should do a Vimeo of NikkiZ singing it. I’m sure it would be so cute!
I’m going to try my best to not let Beans hear that song @ home or the car. I made that mistake last year when I didn’t change the station while Rihanna sang her “Umbrella” song…You know, “Umbrella…ella..ellla…eh-eh-eh”. Even now, when she hears the word “umbrella”, it’s over.
The heck with inappropriate lyrics; my husband has recently taught our four-year-old to sing “Henry the Eighth.” This, I assure you, will be mentioned prominently in the eventual divorce proceedings.
Hahaha! I am with you on this one. Jamison loves this song too and at 7 it is most likely not appropriate for him. But back when he was 5 and our friends taught him “Baby Got Back” - probably not appropriate either!
Further proof that I’m not winning any “Mom Of The Year Awards” - just last night he was chewing some peppermint gum. He asked if it was “ice” gum and we said no - just peppermint gum.
He then exclaimed: “This gum is freakin’ freezing my mouth dude!”
Yeah. We taught our children “Roxanne” by The Police. Also maybe not one of our best parenting decisions, but funny as hell to hear a two year old and a four year old sing!!!!!
It’s entirely possible that all of my kids (they are 7, 4 and 2) know this song. And, quite possibly, they dance to it.
VIDEO. VIDEO. please?
You have read Jim’s latest entry at sweet juniper, right? The whiffle ball bat thing KILLS me.
I remember one of my employees telling me that she had to switch the radio station to Disney after she overheard her 3 year old daughter singing “do the f***ing lady” to Aerosmith’s “dude looks like a lady”.
We’re teaching our 18 month old the same song. She loves it. Every time it comes on in the car she does her head bobbing to the beat. Super cute.
Leila’s favorite is “Comearound” by Rhett Miller. Over and over, “So come awound…”
You DO KNOW that Flo Rida is coming to Bham for the Crawfish Boil, don’t you? And my non-music loving hubby’s all thrilled about Fergie.
We go every year and think it’s better than City Stages.
That’s okay. My son (he will be 5 tomorrow) has a penchant for singing probably less than appropriate for kids country songs. For instance “Tequila Makes Her Clothes Fall Off” and “Honky Tonk Padonkadonk”. The best one he sings (and it’s cute) though is “Chicks Dig It”.
I also have home videos from when I was a kid singing and dancing to “Like a Virgin” and “Papa Don’t Preach”. I had no idea what it meant, but they had a catchy beat!
I confess that my love for this song led me to look up some terms on urban dictionary. I listen to it two or three times in the morning while I work out.