The Weirding Module …Is For The Children

The Weirding Module listens in to spoken word and the voice in contemporary art and experimental music.

This edition of The Weirding Module focusses once again on children's voices in a variety of genres including experimental compostions by children as well as soul, reggae, punk andhip hop. Following on from last episode "Acquisition" where I examined the stages of children learning to speak, here we listen to the gimmicky, naive and charming songs of young singers from a cross section of cultures and eras, hits and obscurities alike.

Even when written by kids like Nancy Dupree or Venus (of Unit 3 and Venus) children's voices evoke feelings of nostalgia and notions of innocence in adults and with the recurring themes of underrage romance, kids growing up too fast or the love of parents it seems that adult sentimentality and worries about childhood are more often reflected in this music than the concerns of kids themselves. While children and their protection are used as political rallying points and tools of propaganda, actually hearing them seems hard to do.

Mixed live in front of a late night audience, this show is nevertheless (for the most part) PG13, cute and fun for the whole family.

Shout out to my children.