Lord, just when all that “agenda” nonsense died down for at least a week or so Kidz Bop had to enter the chat with another one of their cringy remakes to get people started. I thought this was just Lil Nas trolling again so I initially kept scrolling… until I actually saw the commercial.
Brace yourselves: a Kidz Bop take on Lil Nas X is coming. The news first went viral when Lil Nas X himself tweeted that a Kidz Bop version of his famously risqué trak “Montero (Call Me By Your Name)” was in the works saying that they “killed it,” on Twitter, Friday. As expected, the group will sanitize the lyrics which normally reference sex, drugs, and use explicit language. “Lmaooo they are really making a kidz bop version of call me by your name,” Nas wrote on Twitter. And it’s true: the official Kidz Bop 2022 commercial prominently features what looks like a school-set version of the track which the original video saw Lil Nas giving the devil a lap dance.
As expected, the group will sanitize the lyrics which normally reference sex, drugs, and use explicit language. For the uninitiated, Kidz Bop is a music brand that produces “family-friendly” covers of popular songs, often replacing suggestive lyrics with more neutral ones. Since the series’ launch in 2001, it has produced some iconic cringy moments, like replacing Cardi B’s “My big fat ass got all them boys hooked” with “The big dance moves got all them kids hooked” in their version of the Bruno Mars collab “Finesse.” Or take Rihanna, for example. Rihanna’s “Love On The Brain” is about making love with someone, so Kidz Bop should have stayed a mile away. Instead, they changed “I run for miles just to get a taste” to “I run for miles just to see your face” and “It beats me black and blue but it f*cks me so good” to “It makes me feel it’s true but it tricks me so good.”
So obviously social media users were ready to guess what a Kidz Bop spin on a song about having great gay sex would entail, while others were mad at the idea that this was even happening. But let’s be clear folks, this is nothing new. Kidz Bop has remixed plenty of songs that they probably shouldn’t have touched anyway. Take a look at the preview along with some reactions below:
lmaooo they are really making a kidz bop version of call me by your name
— MONTERO 🦋 (@LilNasX) October 1, 2021
not even joking i just saw this commercial 😭 they killed it tho https://t.co/B0d02I0JeQ pic.twitter.com/OcqotoLD94
— MONTERO 🦋 (@LilNasX) October 1, 2021
Call the police kids bop knows better pic.twitter.com/SnaBfKhvMY
— Carra (@Carra55702978) October 4, 2021
