But every now and then they decide to take one of pop's filthier tunes and retrofit it for tykes, and the results are... well, weird to say the least.
And the latest example is one of pop star Sabrina Carpenter's extremely suggestive tunes, "Tears"—and fans cannot handle the Kidz Bop version.
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The Kidz Bop rendition is so weird and off-putting that many fans initially assumed it was AI satire. But nope! It's real.
For the uninitiated, the tears in question in Carpenter's "Tears" are not, shall we say, falling from her eyes. They are falling from... somewhere, uh... much lower on the female body?
Here, just let her tell it:
"I get wet at the thought of you"
"Being a responsible guy"
"Treating me like you're supposed to do"
"Tears run down my thighs"
So, you know, maybe we just leave the kids out of this one, right? Not if you're Kidz Bop!
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The Kidz Bop children—yes it's children who sing these songs, in case you didn't know—changed the lyrics to:
"I just smile at the thought of you"
"Being a responsible guy"
"Treating me like you're supposed to do"
"Tears fall from my eyes"
Which, okay fine, but at some point the Kidz Bop audience is gonna be in the car with mom and the real "Tears" is gonna come on and, uhhhhhhh... Did we really need to do this, Kidz Bop?!
People online are having a full-tilt meltdown over it, as they should!
Usually Kidz Bop retools are just sort of silly and funny but this one somehow feels deeply cursed.
And as several fans pointed out, of all the Sabrina Carpenter songs out there, THIS is the one they pick to remake?! Just do a kid-friendly version of "Espresso" and call it a day—we don't need to be doing all this!
Yeah, people on social media were definitely not okay after hearing Kidz Bop's new jam.
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Anyway, you know the people at Kidz Bop knew exactly what they were doing and are howling at laughter about this, as they should be.
Laugh it up, guys... but in the words of Carpenter herself, "please, please, please" never do this again!
Despite all the fear-mongering during the lead up to election day, Mamdani handily defeated not just the Republican candidate, embattled Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa.
The progressive candidate also beat the old school Democrat on the ballot, disgraced former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo—whose cronyism, ethics scandals, nepotism, and history of sexual misconduct match that of many Republicans, fueling independent voters "both parties are the same claims."
Once the election was called in Mamdani's favor, conservative media leapt to declare it a victory for themselves. Fox News claimed Mamdani as NYC mayor would boost MAGA Republican opportunist Representative Elise Stefanik's planned gubernatorial run in 2026.
Stefanik went from a staunch critic of MAGA Republican President Donald Trump to a MAGA lackey overnight when political advancement was available to her. Stefanik replaced former Wyoming GOP Representative Liz Cheney as chair of the House Republican Conference after the latter ran afoul of Trump.
In addition to claiming victory on a night of Republican and conservative losses—Maine voters handily defeated GOP-sponsored voting restrictions and approved a gun control measure—Fox News continued their freak out over Mamdani.
Longtime Fox host Sean Hannity claimed:
"I have friends of mine in New York. My phone is blowing up. They are officially depressed and scared."
You can watch the segment here:
Hannity's comment came after Bret Baier said:
"[Elise Stefanik], tonight, is probably much more well-positioned than she was yesterday because of the situation."
Hannity countered:
"I don’t know, Bret, if I quite agree with that analysis in this sense. And I honestly feel bad…"
Referring to a pre-election Fox News poll, Hannity added:
"A full nine percent of people say that they will leave if he in fact got elected. Before today, they said if he got elected, they are gonna leave New York City."
When Hannity appeared in a segment with Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis, he said:
"I’m literally in tears. I’m having a hard time keeping a straight face."
The Fox alarmist then claimed it was because of all the hilarious memes his "depressed and scared" friends were sending him about moving to Florida. Hannity himself recently relocated from New York to DeSantis' domain to be closer to his beloved Dear Leader, Trump.
Hannity and his NYC "friends" got little sympathy online.
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Mamdani, New York City’s first Muslim and first Asian American mayor, will likely be sworn in on January 1, 2026, just after the New Year's ball drop, as is customary for the city's mayors.
On Wednesday, Mamdani told community members:
"In the coming months, I and my team will build a city hall capable of delivering on the promises of this campaign. We will form an administration that is equal parts capable and compassionate, driven by integrity, and willing to work just as hard as the millions of New Yorkers who call this city home."
The NYC mayor-elect added:
"Throughout this campaign, I have worked hard to be accessible and transparent with New Yorkers. That same spirit will animate this transition, and the city hall we built, because New Yorkers deserve a government that they can trust."
"We owe it to this city to be ready on 1 January to start delivering. We have 57 days and those are 57 days to start to do the work of preparing."
Mamdani named five women to run his transition team: senior campaign adviser Elana Leopold as executive director; co-chair Maria Torres-Springer, former first deputy mayor; co-chair Lina Khan, former federal trade commission chair under Democratic President Joe Biden; United Way president and CEO, Grace Bonilla; and former deputy mayor for health and human services Melanie Hartzog.
In these cases, people still give it some time before coming to this conclusion, sometimes waiting as long as a year, other times waiting a few weeks.
In some extreme cases, though, our first day on the job could prove to be our last.
Redditor lilMeganw was eager to hear about the jobs people bolted from on the first day, leading them to ask:
"People who quit their jobs on the first day what made you say ‘nope, not doing this’?"
"Home health aide."
"When I applied, I was told it was just like helping elderly people with daily tasks, doing laundry, cooking, and whatnot."
"I had been struggling to find a job for months, so I immediately said yes when I was hired."
"I never had experience, but they assured me I would be trained and taught everything I needed to know."
"Then I showed up for training, which was basically just HR info, how to do time cards, and junk."
“'We’ll train you on the job'.”
"Uhh, okay."
"So I show up at my first job."
"A manager was there with me and as she knocked on the door, she said, 'remember, if anyone asks, you’ve been doing this for a hundred thousand years'.”
"Direct quote."
"Didn’t like that, but we were already here and I was just hoping it would get better."
"Spent a few hours there answering questions and running through the things that I was expected to do."
"I really started feeling uncomfortable and entirely unqualified."
"Then towards the end, the daughter was talking about all the things she was requiring from the caretaker, like certifications and whatnot."
"The manager assured her that I met all her criteria."
"The manager kinda cued me to say what she told me to say, and I just mumbled something, I don’t even remember."
"On the way home, I just kept thinking of all the ways things could go wrong, so immediately after I got home, I messaged them to say I wouldn’t be coming back."
"No, thank you."- coldglasseliminate
"Got hired to work reception in a podiatrist's office."
"I sat and watched the head nurse make the other receptionist cry because she made a simple mistake."
"Then the doctor who owned the practice came out and yelled at the receptionist in front of a lobby full of people and in front of me, the new girl."
"The toxic work environment was oozing from every corner, so that was my first and last day."- No-Calligrapher3043
"Got hired as a server (with 10 years of server experience) at a movie theater that serves food/drinks."
"I showed up for my first shift and was then told all servers had to start as food runners for $7.25/hr for the first 6 months before 'being promoted' to server."
"Also told me my uniform was going to be deducted from my paycheck."
"The job listing was for servers."
"I interviewed for the server job and was hired as a server."
"No thanks to the bait and switch."
"Noped right out of there and got a job somewhere else almost immediately."- Agreeable-Offer-2964
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"Worked at Walgreens."
"I've been a pharm tech for 8 years, so they figured I didn't need any training."
"It was a whole new system."
"It crashed my first day, and they were telling the patients it was my fault."
"Walked out right then and there."
"It was a system, multistate wide crash it had nothing to do with me."- Livid-Soil-2804
"First thing in the morning, on my first day, she instantly started yelling at me."
"Literally just walked in."
"On time."
"So."
"Four more hours of her sh*t and I quit at lunch time."
"So amazing how quick her tone changed when I told her I was quitting."
"F*ck you Stella."- fasterecho
"With the onboarding paperwork, the owner wanted me to sign a non-compete agreement that was absurdly broad, that basically said that I couldn't work in the entire industry or related industries for a year."
"I was only 19 at the time and didn't understand how absolutely unenforceable this was, but I wasn't going to sign anything that I couldn't in good faith agree with."
"Guy was like sign it or leave."
"I left."- geekworking
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"The boss/owner spent the first two hours completely sh*tting on everyone who worked for her, past and present."
"I was exhausted just listening to her complain about literally everything, zero good things to say."
"So I told her this wasn't going to work out and I left."
"Took her a month to pay me $30, but you betcha I hounded her for it lol."- twirlinghaze
"Recruiter: This is a support position."
"No sales required."
"Interview: You'll be working on our support team."
"Training: 3 weeks of technical training to address common issues."
"Day one shadowing with supervisor: Good work, but you didn't upsell the support/protection plan. Remember, sales is good support...where are you going? "- DrBoots
"The whole thing was very vague from the start."
"I was a college student looking for a summer job."
"Saw an ad about 'unlimited earning potential' and an open invitation to an orientation seminar."
"Showed up to the seminar."
"This dude in a cheap suit started showing slides of Ferraris and big houses, asking if we wanted to be.rich blah blah."
"Turns out we were going to sell vacuums door-to-door."
"Basically, this dude would place a little coupon for 2 free large bottles of Pepsi in the newspaper."
"They just had to call a number and agree to watch a sales demonstration at their home address in order to get the Pepsi."
"Then I get sent to this house with the Pepsi and this vacuum to show them."
"They barely spoke English and kicked me out of the house; they gave the Pepsi back."
"I went back to the office and promptly quit lol."- Dive_Bar_Dave
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"I’ve only done that once."
"I was ordered to spray insulation without a respirator."
"When I quit on the spot, I was told that if I reported them to the workplace safety authorities, they would come to my house and hurt me and my family."
"I reported them to the workplace safety people, the police department, and local media."
"The guy who threatened me went to jail, the company had all their licenses revoked, and I even got a payment for two weeks of wages out of it."- 2eDgY4redd1t
"Was advertised as a marketing job."
"What it actually was, however, was a direct sales job inside a Home Depot selling bath and kitchen upgrades."
"I was driven there by a senior salesman, so I spent about 2 hours wandering through Home Depot until finally going back to the guy."
"He said 'I was going to take you to lunch, but it seems like you just wanna go home'."
"I said yup and then he dropped me back off at my car."- CitizenHuman
"Hired as a main tech but was put on a manufacturing line that was nonstop."
"Worked for 2 hrs and said f*ck this."- oldfuckbob
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"In the interview, the VP said that the company is a family."
"Then while showing me aroun,d I saw one of the supervisors yelling and insulting a worker, so I told him thanks, but one abusive family is enough, and walked out. "- Similar-Opinion8750
"I came in to work a serving shift at a new location for a chain I worked at for years in my hometown."
"I walked in expecting typical training day stuff (servsafe and all that yadda yadda) instead, the whole staff was arguing with each other from the back of house to the front of house."
"The lady yelling in the front of the house locked eyes with me, asked me if I was the new girl, shoved her apron and book in my hands, and walked out."
"I probably should've left then and there, but I had just started college and desperately needed the money."
"It was game night in my college town, so we were super busy, and I was also sitting at a rowdy baby shower."
"They were rude and seemingly regulars since other servers kept going over to converse but not assist in taking care of them."
"Halfway through the shift, the ceiling crumbles onto one of my other tables like cardboard."
"It's all in their food, on their body, in their hair, like absolutely covered."
"I go in the back to find a manager, and I literally can't find anyone."
"There was me and a singular cook in the back."
"I asked him where everyone was, and he shrugged and said, "Smoke break?" ALL OF THEM?!?!? "
"I go back to FOH to check on that poor family and my other tables and realize."
"I'M THE ONLY ONE WAITING TABLES IN THE WHOLE RESTAURANT."
"I put my big girl pants on, barely made it through the rest of my tables without bawling (and told them all to never eat here again), and left silently without doing side work to cry my way home."
"When I went home to visit, I sat with my old manager in my hometown restaurant and told him the story, and he was absolutely baffled."- Certain-Date-8792
"Server job."
"They told me it'd be unpaid training shifts first."
"Nope."- Silly_Accident3137
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It's generally wise to give every new job a chance.
How long that chance lasts, however, is a case by case basis depending on the job.
