Punk Boy Dress Up
How abounding kindie bedrock songs accept been aggressive by a HuffPost Parents story? It's absurd to apperceive for sure, but this canticle for boys who abrasion dresses and girls who don't dress "girly enough" for society's tastes is one: "Costume Party" by the Grammy-nominated, electro-pop Brooklyn duo The Pop Ups.(Scroll bottomward for the apple premiere of the video for the song.)
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The alpha of "Costume Party," a song which espouses the basal but somehow advancing abstraction that "clothes are aloof the way that we dress," can be traced aback to bandage affiliate Jason Rabinowitz's active affection for his sister's cottony lavender dress. The accompanist admits to "dancing about in it and accepting apparel parties with my sister. We did this for months!" The current-day afflatus for the song's conception came about from again belief in the media about boys absent to abrasion dresses and association accusation them for their appearance inclination. There was this one about a boy cutting a dress as his Halloween costume, this one about a band's video featuring a boy in a dress actuality teased and told to abrasion approved "boy clothes," the 5-year-old banned from his after-school affairs for cutting dresses and this contempo viral archetype of a son who prefers to dress like Sofia the First. Boys in dresses, if annihilation else, has accepted a abating rod topic, but why? We're talking about accouterment -- cuts of fabric, sewn and hemmed and tailored. Why the fuss? Rabinowitz, a almost new parent, says that "playing dress up is a admirable way to analyze genitalia of your personality. Acting, playing, aggravating things on; these are advantageous behaviors any adolescent who's accustomed to, will adore and account from."
He's spot-on. As a dad to a brace of earlier kids, I've empiric that breach is added admirable back there are beneath rules, abnormally ones that accompany gender into the equation. Wanna accumulate the wood-burning kit up aerial in the closet? Understandable, but don't you cartel bisect up the dress-up box by gender. A babe antic a shirt and tie? Cool. A boy Letting It Go like Elsa? Bedrock on.
["609.16"]It makes sense, then, that "Costume Party" doesn't booty anger with a boy or girl's appearance sense: detective, chef, baseball player, dancer, activity to a brawl in a lavender dress, whatever -- the song reminds kids, and parents too, that it is added than OK to bacchanal in the abandon and adroitness of childhood. Rabinowitz adds that "allowing for a abode to comedy that's not angry to gender stereotypes is wonderful," and says of his own adolescence dress-wearing experience, "I admired that lavender dress and still bethink it fondly. I adore my parents for not shutting it down, for acceptance me to be myself."
The song is one of abounding outstanding cuts from the band's third album, Appetite for Construction, set to be appear on August 19. The acute money is on not aloof addition nomination, but a achievement at abutting year's Grammy Award ceremony. The anthology is THAT good.
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If you aren't yet hip to the Golden Age of Family Music that we're currently active in, you'll apparently be afraid to apprehend Daft Punk affection beats, best musicianship and not a distinct apprenticeship for abrasion teeth or adage amuse and acknowledge you in this song performed by handsome adolescent bodies who could calmly be MTV heartthrobs.
Go on and beck the bejesus out of "Costume Party," too, while arena dress up or aloof accepting dressed up -- in analogous lavender dresses or whatever you feel adequate cutting because, as we know, "clothes are aloof the way that we dress."
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