By the year 2001, Razor & Tie had already found widespread success as a producer of reissues and compilation albums, but in the latter half of the year the independent music publisher struck pre-teen gold. The first ever Kidz Bop album saw release, which featured hyper-sanitized, family-friendly versions of pop songs, as sung by a chorus of children just barely into double-digits. The brand has since gone on to be one of the highest selling series of kids albums of all time, spawned innumerable spin-offs and tie-ins, and has become the bane of parents everywhere, endlessly irked by Kidz Bop's inferior takes on already overexposed songs.
Now in September, with the kids back in school, the goodboix at Jukebox Zeroes are finally going to get to the bottom of things. On this episode, special guest Puck Vickery of Twitch stream GGPuck and of improv group SimProv joins Lee & Patrick in listening and reacting to a slew of Kidz Bop tracks, and trying to figure out what the heck all the hubbub surrounding this compilation clearly not made for them is about.
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