McDonald's Happy Meals Now Come With An F Word
McDonald's is being accused of handing out profane CDs in their Happy Meals.
The current Happy Meal option is a Kidz Bop CD — pop songs that you used to like until they were re-recorded by a bunch of whiny kids. One of the songs on CD#6, a cover of Gavin DeGraw's "I Don't Wanna Be" allegedly includes the F word. The lyric is actually "I'm tired of looking around", but it sounds EXACTLY like "I'm tired of f***ing around."
One McDonald's, in Boaz, Alabama, has already pulled CD#6, following multiple complaints from parents and grandparents. But McDonald's HQ stands firm, insisting that the song is consistent with the "stringent standards that we attribute to all of our Happy Meal toy offerings." (We guess they must mean that 5-cent plastic crap they get from China.) Since there are no plans to withdraw the CDs, their legend will surely live on as all-caps eBay listings.
Parents: Profanity in McD's Kidz Bop CD [UPI]
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@takes_so_little: "Please accept these playful plastic items, O Jeffrey the Giraffe, and have mercy upon our consuming souls."
"It" has nothing on that damn clown. That dude is hardcore.
Because we all know how rife with swearing Kidz Bop CDs are.
Nice to know some things never change-- here we are in the middle of an economic collapse, extreme weather's pummeling us from all sides and our future has never been more uncertain, but parents can still get outraged over a word they think they heard.
It sounds like they put way too much emphasis on the word "OF" in "Tired of lookin round" so it sounds like "Tired oh fluckin' round" But picture the emphasis of the "OF" and you'll hear it right.
"Mom, what does that word mean?" "It's just a word, ignore it."
That's how my parents dealt with it.
It's called Paradolia. As soon as you told people what word they should be hearing, that's the word they will ALWAYS hear. Same reason I always hear Peter Gabrial sing about Jacque, The Monkey.
it sounds exactly like "I'm tired of looking around"
//fixed that for you.
//folks here what they want to hear.
//listening 5-7 X's to see if it sounded like an F-Bomb. it doesn't. hated those kidzbop recordings before this, hate 'em even more now, but not because they dropped an f-bomb. this whole story is ridiculous
Excuse me while I kiss this guy
If it came from china wouldnt it really be saying "I'm tired of Rooking around?"
@Woooot!-Offing_GitEmSteveDave: Or how any song's lyrics get immediately replaced with the Weird Al version once you accidentally listen it.
Or the French part in the "Michelle" by the Beatles that sounds like "Some day monkey won't play piano song, play piano song."
Or "Hold me closer, Tony Danza."
As I read somewhere else about this, the kids are really out of sync, so one of them is still finishing 'of' when the rest starts 'looking' making it sound like that.
Not to say that I care, the more Kids Bop CDs destroyed, the better.
@Saboth: My parents dealt with stuff like that in a similar way. It's amazing how much kids won't care about that sorta stuff if their parents don't care. But as soon as your parents go screaming crazy about something you're not supposed to know about, all of a sudden it is VITALLY IMPORTANT that you find out all about that thing immediately.
Speaking of misheard Peter Gabriel lyrics, when I hear the chorus to "Games Without Frontiers", it sounds like "she's so fuck me now!" not "jeux sans frontieres".
@redskull: Yes, because you know, a single word can cause the collapse of civilization as we know it, but a massive worldwide economic meltdown couldn't possibly be anything to worry about.
That is the problem with this society today. Too many whining little crybabies with fark'd-up priorities who believe theirs is the only opinion that should ever count in any situation.
@korybing: I always thought it was Sunday monkey. :)
I will listen to some songs, even if I was never fond of them before, because of the warm fuzzy feelings I get thinking of Weird Al's version of it.
@ADismalScience:
Oh classic mis-heard lines..
I always thought that they lyrics from that Eiffel 65 (the greatest singing troupe of this or any generation) song 'Blue' sounded like "I'm blue, I'm in need of a guy, I'm in need of a guy..."
@Secret Agent Man:
Also, that song will be stuck in everyone who reads this' head for at least an hour... Apologies...
@Riff-Raff: It was hard for me to read this post because of that picture.. I have a serious clown phobia... I'm getting better though...
Now if he was here in person.... oh my goodness.
There's a bathroom on the right.
what happened to the happy meals that actually offered barbies and hot wheels? kids dont want music, they can get that from anywhere, but a tiny car with yellow "M"s all over it and minuature dolls are what they should offer. Just like they used to before!
-dave
Kidz Bop CDs have been the subject of many an overly angry rant from me and/or Sr. Zinha. I don't understand the purpose of them. Who buys these? What is the logic behind that? If the songs are so offensive and inappropriate that you don't want your kids to listen to them, how does a slightly sanitized version with little kids singing make it any better?
I also wonder how some songs even get put on there, and what substitutions they use for the more explicit or inappropriate lines. I know I've seen clips of them on TV with songs like "Hey Ya!", "So What?", "This Love"...songs are that are not hardcore crass and nasty, but do contain some questionable lyrical content.
Sounds like a Robot Chicken sketch to me.
I listened to this one... I actually think parents are right on this one.
@redskull: I've seen this a bunch of times. Almost without fail the parents who I've known to hit the roof over the 'F' word are the ones who couldn't care less about anyone else and whose children are chronic bullies and liars.
If I were a parent, the possible damage to my kids' ears from the CD would pale in comparison to the possible damages from the salt, calories and other ingredients of questionable value ingested by eating the Happy Meal
Raise your hand if you thought Stewie was saying "effin' cry" in the Family Guy theme . . .
@korybing: @BathroomDuck: Or how I always hear "Tuna Taco" as the background chorus in "As I Lay Me Down"(about 1:17 in).
From what I have researched, they are actually saying "ooh la kah koh", which translates from some tribal language to "wash your feet before you enter the hut". I still hear "Tuna Taco".
I am tired of seeing this story all over the net. These parents need to stop getting false press about something that doesn't even exist in a remake by kids - of a song that never had the word in the first place. I mean, this is nuts, Consumerist.
I expected so much better from you all, and I expected this story to die on Monday, when I first read that a senile grandparent heard it.
It's just NOT there, and the story needs to die a horrible death.
@larrymac: I read that they had to re-do that so it wouldn't sound like "effin' cry" -- though frankly, I think it fits better! It's Stweie, after all!
@Secret Agent Man: In this one podcast I listen to, the guy loves this song, but sings it horribly, and mostly sings it as "Dobble deeble un dobble deeble do dee...etc...". It's hilarious.
@Cafezinha: The best is when they sing songs w/overtones, like Girlfiend by Avril Lavigne with such lyrics as "Dontcha know what I can do to make you feel alright" and "In a second you'll be wrapped around my finger, cuz I can, I can do it better".
@Overheal: Ha! Yes, those silly cultures that don't grasp the English language. Unlike you, who enunciate Chinese perfectly, right?
@Woooot!-Offing_GitEmSteveDave: When I listen to the song "Broken" by Amy Lee and that other guy (yes, I know), I always her "wanna hold you high and steal your pain" as "wanna hold you high and steal your pen"
@Riff-Raff: I know, I can certainly expect nightmares tonight! That clown will be chasing me around funhouse mirrors in a creepy deserted carnival.
Anyone remember the "kill james" elmo a while back?
Yeah, same thing, different mother.
@Cafezinha: Took me years before I figured out what it was supposed to be. Now if only I could figure out what Kenny says at the beginning of South Park....
@Anathema777: You know you've hit rock bottom, though when you willingly take Kidz Bop over Hannah Montana...
I never thought I find myself willingly saying, "let's listen to Kidz Bop!" but the thought of hearing "Nobody's Perfect" for the 400th time will make you say such things out loud...
@Woooot!-Offing_GitEmSteveDave: A friend used to sing the chorus of 'Always something there to remind me' as 'Always a big bear right behind me', and now that's all I can hear.
@Stephmo: Stephmo, we need to talk. Why don't you sit down for this? We're your friends here, Stephmo, we care about you...
Why does the phrase "toy offerings" sound so religious?