Kids these days

Originally published at erin-go-blog!. You can comment here or there.

So, all the little kiddies at the school where I finished the year love them some Souja Boy. I did some poetry activities with the 7th graders and I asked them to find some song lyrics so we could look at them for poetic merit. Several of them brought Soulja Boy lyrics, and I was vaguely horrified, mostly because they hardly have any words. Here’s one that one of the kids brought in:

My chain too silly
My wrist too silly
The girls throw me dish cuz my rims big billin
My ride too silly
I ride too silly
We for fantastic cuz I got a deally
Cuz now I’m worth a millian

I was like, um, what?

So last Friday night, I helped chaperone an end-of-the-year dance for the 8th graders. The last song the DJ played was Crank Dat by Soulja Boy:

Soulja boy off in this hoe
Watch me crank it
Watch me roll
Watch me crank that soulja boy
Then super man that hoe
Now watch me you
(crank that soulja boy)
Now watch me you
(crank that soulja boy)
Now watch me you
(crank that soulja boy)
Now watch me you
(crank that soulja boy)

(some of the lyrics replace “hoe”, which I thought was spelled “ho”, with “oh”. Which of those is accurate? I dunno. I guess ho makes marginally more sense.)

That’s pretty much the whole song. But what I learned Friday night was that it’s a dance. And it actually looked pretty cool to see the entire 8th grade class doing it, and so I thought, “well, maybe I can understand why 8th graders like this talentless twerp.”

Here’s a video from YouTube:

 

I was reading some comments on one of the videos posted earlier, and they were pretty entertaining. It was based on one of those comments that I went to urbandictionary.dom to look up “Superman dat ho.” And then I was both disgusted and horrified.

I guess my point here, if I have one at all, is that I’m OLD, and I don’t understand this newfangled music. I’m going to go tell some kids to get off my lawn now…

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Tags: souljaboy, crank dat, kids, 8th grade, dance