You know, when I was 12, my favorite album was Kenny Rogers Greatest Hits. Don't ask me why a Puerto Rican growing up in the Bronx was into Kenny Rogers. I just was.

And I memorized every line of "Coward of the County." What a great song. I would sing it all the time. Including the gang rape smack in the middle of the song.

Did you know there was a gang rape smack in the middle of Coward of the County? Wholesome country song, that. I don't recall how old I was when I first realized what happened there. But sure enough, there's a reason that Coward of the County decided to fight those mean old Gatlin boys. You'd fight, too, if three jerks "took turns" at your Becky.

I guess I'm thinking that these lyrics are only a problem if they are the source of our kids' values. Sex is natural; curiosity about sex is natural. Discipline and maturity about sex separates us from restless dogs.

Some of us, anyway. :)

This is quite new song of Flo Rida and I love it. You can lyric and video of this song at:

http://www.lyricsvideo.net/2009/03/right-round-flo-rida.html

the best solution to listening to the radio with your teen age children are to listen with them and be there for any questions and concerns they feel when words are vulgar. i try to be the one they come to for questions because they're going to hear it anyway somewhere, wouldn't you rather be tehre for them.

I agree wholeheartedly with you Lois and songs like "I kissed a girl and I liked it" may very well be influencing 11 year old girls out there.

As a mother of two who was unhappy with the children's musical offerings, I produced a compilation, FUNKY KIDZ, featuring 12 of New Orleans' finest doing funky covers of classic children's songs we all know and love. Ivan Neville's (of Neville Family) Zip a dee doo dah and the funkiest version of Hokey Pokey, will leave you and your kids wanting more. It's a bridge of the gap between adult and childrens music -- sophisticated instrumentation combined with concise classic clean lyrics. I'd love to send you a copy Lois. www.funkykidzmusic.com

Another alternative is Jonathan Sprout's "American Heroes #3" featuring upbeat fun songs about various historical figures like Thomas Jefferson, Jonas Salk, Pocahontas and more. Yes parents, music AND a history lesson in one! My little ones love it and we have all learned tremendously. www.jonsprout.com

As a 16 year old who has heard it all ever since jr high, your kids will find other ways to listen to it. You can always change the station and say that it is not proper music that a child can be hearing, yet they can go to school and listen to it on their best friends ipod. The more you tell your child NOT to do something, the more that they will. I actually like the beat to this song, as well as I kissed a girl. But the words.. that is a different story. The best advice that I will give you is to talk to your kids abt it if they are old enough to understand. Make sure they know that what the song means is not pleasing to God. That never worked for me when I was younger because of course, I was hard-headed. My parents finally gave in and said whatever she is not going to listen. And eventually, I out grew it. Although I still listen to some music like that now, I do not go out and do the things that the songs talk abt. I listen to "I kissed a girl" but I do not go around kissing girls. I listen to "Addicted" but I do not go out having sex. Just as a parent, always set a good example for your children b/c they are always watching you, even when you think that they arent. And teach them right from wrong. My parents didnt like me listening to music abt sex and such for they thought that it would be an influence in my life to actually DO IT. But i'm 16 and still a virgin. You just have to teach your kids right from wrong and pray that they will make good descions in life. That is the best advice that I can give to any parent, including myself when I am one day married and have kids of my own. (:

Is this serious? As a well-behaved high school student I must say I find these concerns both comical and offensive at the same time. Do you have no faith in the way you raised your children. Are you waiting for the radio to do it for you? Further more, are you children imbicles incapable of independent thought? Or is that what you are afraid of? That your children will be able to break away from your bubble? The bottom line is that these songs won't brainwash your kids. For the most part they are harmless if your children are not zombies. Have faith in your own parenting and catch up with modern times. As a teen this is simply appaling. We are more than you think we are.

Caroline, you're too young and obviously departed from the facts. Teens do stupid things all the time, including having sex when they are not ready, and "Yes" these songs DO desensitize kids into thinking everyone is doing it. Peer presure is real, and calling girls prudes does indeed turn their values upside down. Girls have no self esteem or self respect and this is why teen boys get what they want and teen girls give into it.

I found this page googling for the song lyrics to this song to see if anyone else had thought the line sounded incredibly like the Dead or Alive line, turns out I'm not the only one seeing that.

Having read through all the other comments to this page, my first thought was "my God! they must be American.." and who'd have thought, with a scroll to the top of the page "south florida" is written there. Unfortunately you guys have confirmed my suspicians that American parents are perhaps even more insane than the rest of the world.

Now I'm assuming that with that statement the rest of this post will be null and void, and ignored, but i'll continue anyway. You can't seriously think that these song lyrics are going to have an influence on your children's behaviour. I remember way back when I was probably 11 or 12, listening to a song by The Vines which had the line "If you feel low, you can buy love, from a payphone, I dont feel low". At that age I had no idea what it meant, but now I can catagorically say that it clearly never influenced me to "buy love" since then. i.e. its just words

I can understand parents not wanting their children to listen to songs containing curse words, thats fair enough. But honestly, I cant believe that people want to shelter their children from the world so much that they're worried about them listening to song lyrics that simply dont have any influence on them.

Okay actually, Caroline, the songs do somewhat have an influence on teens-as well as children. Just because you "cliam" that they dont, does not mean that they dont for others. I am only 16, as I have said before, and yes as Jerry has said, peer pressure does exist. And with the way the world is today, all of these babies our age and younger are making mistakes that they have to live with for the rest of their life. As a parent, you WILL worry. I know that i am going to one day raise my children right, but I will still worry. My best friend, her mother raised her right. But yet she had to take a pregnancy test today. I know her parents would not approve of that. Peer pressure does exist.. and whether you admit it or not, you have experienced it before. And when a child hears the songs, they do think that its cool this and that.

For example.. a friend of mine was listening to this song and next thing you know, she's a dope head.. yeah it does effect what some ppl do. It may not effect you and i, but it does effect some people. As much as a parent wants to believe their child is not doing the evil in this world, they sometimes question it. And when you have a child of your own, you will see what I mean. I do not have children, but I have helped raise kids and I understand where the parents are coming from..

Just remember, not everyone is like you and I..

You ppl need to stop fighting about this its dumb. So your kids are listening to the songs big deal. Maybe your biggest problem is you don't trust them.

Tom, yes it sounds like the Dead or Alive melody. It's called "sampling."

I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one who thought these lyrics were obscene. I'm surprised they can play this on the radio, actually.

All you need to know is that these songs not only objectify women but they teach young boys that women are there to be objectified.

Now there is nothing wrong with these songs per say but young minds are easily molded and should not be exposed to such topics as strippers until they are of an age to be able to understand the ramifications that acompany their actions.

This song is only a remix of an older song. If you want to hear the original song you can go to meatspin.com which ironically obectifies men and women simultaniously. Be aware that this is website could be considered explicit.

I couldn't believe the words to this song. I have a 14 year old grand daughter and I know she listens to this music. It's so obscene. Here we are trying to keep our kids focused on school and other uplifting activities so somehow they can make something of themselves, yet some of today's music is downright lude. Last year is was "I kissed a girl and I liked it, then another one just out is "birthday sex." I'm trying to think of how this can be stopped. You know what they say - "garbage in - garbage out!"