This project was originally inspired by a tweet by Andy Baio. Lyrics with particularly offensive words like the n-word and the r-word have been removed from this piece. Kidz Bop releases compilation albums that feature children covering clean versions of contemporary pop songs that chart high on the Billboard Hot 100 and/or receive heavy airplay from contemporary hit radio stations several months ahead of each albums release. We also removed some Kidz Bop songs that were on more specialty albums (e.g. Kidz Bop (stylized in all caps) is a music brand that produces family-friendly cover versions of pop songs and related media. The 22-track collection sees Ashton, Lois, Max, and Twinkle take on a selection of pop hits such as Ed Sheeran's 'Castle on the Hill,' Anne-Marie's 'Ciao Adios,' and the Justin Bieber-featuring DJ Khaled hit 'I'm the One,' all delivered in their family-friendly pop style.

Known for their kid-friendly versions of hit singles re-recorded by session. We manually screened a subset of songs for missing and/or unreliable lyrics on Genius, but there could be some lingering artefacts. return with their follow-up to their early 2017 debut. Razor & Ties Kidz Bop series of singalong collections debuted in 2001. Each bad word counts once per song even if it occurs multiple times in the song. To determine censorship trends over time we looked at all of the original songs that had instances of our bad words and calculated what proportion of bad word/original song pairs were removed in the corresponding Kidz Bop versions. Using regular expressions we tallied how many of each bad word occurred in the original and Kidz Bop versions. To assess censorship, we first came up with a list of “bad words” and added to it by looking for words that commonly appeared in original songs but not in their Kidz Bop versions. Again, some manual matching was necessary. The release year of both versions of each song was collected using Spotify’s API. Some manual matching was involved to ensure that we chose the correct lyrics if there were multiple songs of the same name.

We were able to access lyrics to songs by the Kidz Bop Kidz and the original version of the songs using Genius’s API.

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