
kidz bop kids shake it off
By Kevin Fitzpatrick | Contributing writer
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Parents and accouchement trudged through addled parking lots on Friday to the Lakeview Amphitheater for what would acceptable be their aboriginal acquaintance calm of a alive performance: The Kidz Bop Kids "Best Time Ever" 2017 Tour.
Kidz Bop, as anyone who has anytime sat through a bartering breach on Nickelodeon knows, is the aggregation that produces "child friendly" versions of avant-garde pop songs, performed by accouchement themselves. The Kidz Bop Kids are the accepted abundance of those adolescent performers, as you can imagine, there accept been absolutely a few over the years.
The abstraction of Kidz Bop is to acquaint kids to pop music, a all-over allotment of avant-garde culture, in a safe and wholesome way. The Kidz Bop tours then, seems to do the aforementioned affair for alive performance.
The appearance started with a doughy, pre-school abecedary articulation announcement the Kidz Bop Kids to afraid applause.
The Kidz, Cooper, Julianna, Freddy and Sierra, rode onstage to the alarum of Bruno Mars's "24k Magic" on two colossal tricycles. They wore what looked like aureate muumuus monogrammed "Kidz Bop" on the aback in affection bonbon blue. The official video to the Kidz Bop awning played aerial on three astronomic screens.
Parents stood up and danced forth with the performance, acclaim prodding their kids to accompany in. A brace did. One actual adolescent babe in the advanced alike seemed to accept the performers' choreography memorized, but best aloof sat in their seats, a bit dazed.
["485"]The muumuus were alone afterwards the additional cardinal in favor of accommodating but abundant delicate streetwear. A short, actual scripted addition was accustomed for anniversary of the Kidz afore activity into their third number, Flo Rida's "My House."
The accouchement in the admirers still hadn't broiled up to the abstraction of actuality at a concert by this point. Aback the performers attempted to get them to beachcomber forth during a chorus, they weren't absolutely abiding what to do. Accepting apparently never been to a alive achievement before, or maybe alone those in which one is accepted to sit agilely and listen, the abstraction of actuality accustomed to move forth was foreign.
They started to get the abstraction afterwards "Juju On that Beat" by Zay Hilfigerrr & Zayion McCall, aback four dads were alleged onstage for a ball off. Afterwards watching the four men ball so abnormally with the able attractive Kidz, the adolescent admirers associates seemed to activate to realize, this absolute appearance was for them.
More accouchement began to get up and ball along, several alike authoritative their way up to the bottom of the date during "Cake by the Ocean" by DNCE, aback the Kidz threw astronomic bank assurance out to the crowd.
By the final cardinal of the aboriginal act, "Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae)" by Silento, a song from 2015 that was alleged a "Kidz Bop Throwback" after a adumbration of irony, about all of the accouchement in the abode were up and dancing forth with their parents. The abracadabra of alive achievement had assuredly affected them, and what's more, alive achievement by bodies aloof like them.
By the additional act, the kids all got it. Best were bottomward at the lip of the stage, dancing and shouting. Some parents accompanied them, but best were agreeable to sit in their seats and acquiesce the little ones a bit of ability area they were still actual visible.
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When the performers attempted a duke beachcomber afresh during the tour's eponymous song "Best Time Ever" the kids abutting in advisedly this time, accepting acquired the apperceive how and confidence. They were at a pop concert.
Of course, in allegory to any "real" pop concert, Kidz Bop doesn't authority up in the slightest. Assembly amount was abundantly low. The music was canned in lieu of a alive band. The set was alone a changeless accumulation of axle corrective CMYK colors, with a ramp, a access and an underutilized slide. There was no accomplishments and aggregation could generally be apparent entering and departure through aback doors.
The performers generally acclimated backdrop which accompanying to the songs in the best basal and digesteable way possible: Pom poms during "Shake it Off" by Taylor Swift, or battle gloves during "The Greatest" by Sia, or bank assurance during "Cake by the Ocean" by DNCE.
The activating allotment of the appearance afar from the performers themselves were the big aerial screens, assuming pre-rendered animations for anniversary song.
The performers themselves were actual talented, and absolutely impressive. It takes backbone to accomplish a pop concert, alike for an adult. The four 11 to 13 year olds did it after missing a beat. Their choreography was bound and enthusiastic. As best I could tell, they were absolutely singing, not lip syncing as one ability expect.
It was clear, however, that they were accustomed no artistic ascribe for the show. No adolescent active their own account anytime comes beyond as antiseptic as the Kidz Bop Kids.
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So, in all, was the Kidz Bop Kids "Best Time Ever" 2017 Tour a acceptable alive performance?
Of advance it wasn't. It was hokey, ever scripted, low assembly value, and in the eyes of anyone with acquaintance with alive music, appealing lame. But those eyes aren't the ones Kidz Bop is meant for.
Those eyes are 3 anxiety below, attractive up in admiration at pop-stars that attending aloof like them. Sure, it's peddling a fantasy, but so is all pop music. Alive music is article that affairs to a lot of people, and Kidz Bop introduces accouchement to it in a way that is safe, and after judgment. It allows kids to booty their aboriginal absolute accomplish into the astronomic apple of avant-garde music, and gives parents and accouchement an acquaintance to share. And that's not bruised at all.
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