The PMRC has gone too far...

Since G has started understanding everything we say we decided to moderate the music we listen to while she is around. We weren't playing very many albums with a significant amount of questionable content so this wasn't too difficult. Most of our music is benign or has an occasional swear word with the exception of Tenacious D's album which was approximately 90% obscene.

Yesterday Carrie bought a few CDs for children. We thought she would enjoy hearing music geared towards her. They had updated versions of all the classic children's songs. There was "No More monkeys Jumping On The Bed" with a techno beat, "The Bear Went Over the Mountain" with a new-agey sound and "Give Me a Home Where the Buffalo Roam" with a modern country sound. While I found the updates a little surprising it wasn't until I heard some of the creative editing that I got annoyed.

I think things have gone too far when "Three Blind Mice" needs to have a radio edit. You probably remember the lyrics as:

Three blind mice, three blind mice,
See how they run, see how they run,
They all ran after the farmer's wife,
Who cut off their tails with a carving knife,
Did you ever see such a thing in your life,
As three blind mice?

This was apparently too violent for the parents of today. What would our children learn from a horrible song like this? Mutilating mice?! Indeed. No, we must censor this. No more cutting off tails instead we hear the softened lyrics of "Who jumped from their tails and dropped her knife".

From now on I'm going to recommend Carrie only buy the CDs for children with the "Explicit Lyrics" parental advisory sticker.