
Yet, "Love on the Brain" was apparently still fair game for the Kidz Bop Kids, whose edited-in lyric "it makes me feel it's true, but it tricks me so good" is almost as egregious as their attempts to replicate Rih's vocals. "Kidz Bop" covering Rihanna should be a crime in and of itself, but this song was a particularly questionable choice, with a line like "it beats me black and blue, but it (expletive) me so good" about the singer's troubled love. To celebrate the release of Kidz Bop 38 on July 13 – featuring cleaned-up versions of Drake’s “God’s Plan” and Bruno Mars and Cardi B’s “Finesse” – take a look back at the most amusingly inappropriate pop hits to get the "Kidz Bop" treatment, and the raunchiest lines they edited out. I Did It Again” on the very first "Kidz Bop" release in 2001, the albums have periodically featured songs that, no matter how sanitized their rewritten lyrics may be, still were probably too questionable for a kids’ CD. "Kidz Bop" is one of pop music’s most inexplicably enduring franchises of the 21st century, beloved by kids and parents for the compilations’ family-friendly renditions of popular hits, and by everyone else for their unintentional hilarity.Īnd ever since the Kidz Bop Kids covered Britney Spears' "Oops!.
