{"id":194,"date":"2011-10-24T15:36:17","date_gmt":"2011-10-24T20:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/?p=194"},"modified":"2011-10-24T15:39:23","modified_gmt":"2011-10-24T20:39:23","slug":"music-monday-dinosaur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/?p=194","title":{"rendered":"Music Monday: Dinosaur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You guys, I love Ke$ha. Were you aware? She&#8217;s just so consistently hilarious and trashy. Love her. So, naturally, this summer when I found myself with a group of young children whose group was called &#8220;the dinosaurs,&#8221; my first response was to chant the first two lines of Ke$ha&#8217;s brilliant song, &#8220;Dinosaur&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>D-I-N-O-S-A you are<br \/>\nA dinosaur!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But then, to my horror, a 9-year-old girl said, &#8220;That&#8217;s a Ke$ha song!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In one of my uncoolest-ever grownup moments, I blurted, &#8220;You are way too young to listen to Ke$ha!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No I&#8217;m not! I have her CD!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well!! Ke$ha is not camp appropriate so we&#8217;re not going to sing any more of that song, okay! I just wanted to make sure everyone knew how to spell dinosaur!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/irgIyKE8RL8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s revisit those lyrics, shall we?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>D-I-N-O-S-A, you are a dinosaur<br \/>\nD-I-N-O-S-A, you are a dinosaur<br \/>\nAn O-L-D M-A-N, you&#8217;re just an old man<br \/>\nHitting on me, what? You need a CAT scan<\/p>\n<p>Old man, why are you staring at me?<br \/>\nMac on me and my friends, it&#8217;s kind creepy<br \/>\nYou should be prowling around the old folks home<br \/>\nCome on dude, leave us alone<\/p>\n<p>At first we thought that it was kinda ill when<br \/>\nWe saw that you were like a billion<br \/>\nAnd still out tryna make a killing<br \/>\nGet back to the museum<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course! Just what every nine-year-old girl needs to be listening to. Of course, the first CD I ever bought was Alanis Morissette&#8217;s <em>Jagged Little Pill<\/em>, and I was in 6th grade. I was listening to her sing about going down on someone in a theater and I had no clue what that meant. If you had forced me to define it I probably would have guessed that Alanis was sitting on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dave_Coulier\">someone<\/a>&#8216;s lap. And anyway, I thought &#8220;Ironic&#8221; was a way better song. So deep, Alanis! <\/p>\n<p>So, although my inner old person feels that nine-year-olds need Ke$ha the way someone of legal drinking age needs a black fly in their chardonnay, the truth is that girl probably thinks the song is about actual dinosaurs.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_195\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-195\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/trex.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/trex-300x279.jpg\" alt=\"T-rex\" title=\"trex\" width=\"300\" height=\"279\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/trex-300x279.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/trex.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-195\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">D-I-N-O-S-A you are a dinosaur<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Kids have been listening to music that was &#8220;inappropriate&#8221; for them since Elvis. Or earlier. I don&#8217;t know, I&#8217;m not a music historian. I&#8217;m just an avid Ke$ha fan who will one day learn how to keep her mouth shut around tween girls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You guys, I love Ke$ha. Were you aware? She&#8217;s just so consistently hilarious and trashy. Love her. So, naturally, this summer when I found myself with a group of young children whose group was called &#8220;the dinosaurs,&#8221; my first response was to chant the first two lines of Ke$ha&#8217;s brilliant song, &#8220;Dinosaur&#8221;: D-I-N-O-S-A you are&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/?p=194\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Music Monday: Dinosaur<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[166,164,165,124],"class_list":["post-194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dinosaurs","tag-keha","tag-kesha","tag-music-monday","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}