| Product Summary | | Label: RAZOR AND TIE RECORDS/SBME | | UPC: 00793018915120 | | Release Date: 7/31/2007 | | Buy.com Sku: 204873553 | | Item#: M3NS2D | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 25050 | Format:  CD |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Girlfriend ~ Kidz Bop Kids |  | | 2. Sweet Escape, The ~ Kidz Bop Kids | | | 3. It's Not Over ~ Kidz Bop Kids | | | 4. Say It RIght ~ Kidz Bop Kids | | | 5. Never Again ~ Kidz Bop Kids | | | 6. What Goes Around...Comes Around ~ Kidz Bop Kids | | | 7. Umbrella ~ Kidz Bop Kids | | | 8. Cupid's Chokehold / Breakfast In America ~ Kidz Bop Kids | | | 9. Glamorous ~ Kidz Bop Kids | | | 10. If Everyone Cared ~ Kidz Bop Kids | | | 11. Beautiful Liar ~ Kidz Bop Kids | | | 12. How To Save A Life ~ Kidz Bop Kids | | | 13. Makes Me Wonder ~ Kidz Bop Kids | | | 14. Don't Matter ~ Kidz Bop Kids | | | 15. Boston ~ Kidz Bop Kids | | | 16. With Love ~ Kidz Bop Kids | | | 17. Ice Box ~ Kidz Bop Kids | | | 18. Home ~ Kidz Bop Kids | |
| Kidz Bop is the most-popular and most-recognized music product in the U.S. for kids aged 4-11, selling over 10 Million CDs in 6 years. Featuring today's most popular songs, sung by kids for kids Kidz Bop CD titles have earned nine Gold-certified albums since their debut in 2001. Kidz Bop 10, released on August 1st, 2006, sold 116,000 units in its first week and entered the Billboard Top 200 Album chart at the #3 position, by far the biggest sales week in Kidz Bop history. Kidz Bop 9, released on February 21st, 2006, entered the Billboard Top 200 Album Chart at the incredible #2 position, the highest chart position ever for Razor & Tie. Kidz Bop 9 also became the highest charting non-soundtrack children's release in Billboard history. The newest CD release, Kidz Bop 12, features popular tracks originally performed by Avril Lavigne, Gwen Stefani, Rihanna, and much more!
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Notes & Personnel Info |  | On this 2007 installment of the successful KIDZ BOP series, enthusiastic children once again join forces with studio musicians to recreate pop hits of the moment. Highlights of KIDZ BOP 12 include lively renditions of "The Sweet Escape," Gwen Stefani's sunny anthem, and Rihanna's synth-tinged smash single "Umbrella," as well as the Fray's poignant tune "How to Save a Life." | | By the time the 12th volume of the Kidz Bop series was released, the collections of kid-enhanced covers of pop hits were being released just as frequently -- and featured most of the same songs -- as the Now That's What I Call Music! series. Kidz Bop, Vol. 12 is especially on point when it comes to timely hits -- the cover of the summer jam of 2007, Rihanna's "Umbrella," arrived while the original was still topping the charts. True to the Kidz Bop formula, Kidz Bop, Vol. 12 features a handful of songs that aren't destroyed by having a chorus of kids singing along with them, and a lot more tracks that hold up a freaky funhouse mirror to the sexuality, materialism, and other very grown-up traits in most pop music. Covering Fergie's "Glamorous" -- which starts out with the rallying cry "If you ain't got no money take your broke self home!" -- is in questionable taste, as is the slew of brooding breakup songs like Justin Timberlake's "What Goes Around Comes Around"; what was originally a lovelorn, slightly whiny ballad is more than a little unsettling with the Kidz Bop Kids singing "I know that you're livin' a lie." As with the other collections, Kidz Bop, Vol. 12 also has more than its fair share of earnest songs that aren't exactly inappropriate, but just sound wrong coming out of the mouths of babes; this time, it's Nickelback's "If Everyone Cared," the Fray's "How to Save a Life," and not one but two DAUGHTRY songs, "It's Not Over" and "Home," that get the Kidz Bop treatment. Even fellow American Idol alumnus Kelly Clarkson -- whose "Since U Been Gone" led to one of Kidz Bop's most genuinely joyous covers -- provides more fodder for dark and dismal covers on Kidz Bop, Vol. 12: her "Never Again" sounds bad coming from another singer, and even worse with the Kids backing her up. The collection isn't all doom and gloom, however; there are a few of the "what the -- ?" moments that have made the Kidz Bop series just as popular with some adults as with kids. The version of Gym Class Heroes' "Cupid's Chokehold/Breakfast in America" approaches the deeply weird alternative rock covers that pop up in Kidz Bop's world from time to time, like Modest Mouse's "Float On." The Kidz Bop-ified "Beautiful Liar" is even stranger on a completely different level; the song is popular largely because it's Beyonc? and Shakira singing it, and replacing two of pop's most distinctive divas with two faceless ones is just plain odd (needless to say, the poor Kidz Bop Kids are even more superfluous than usual). Avril Lavigne's "Girlfriend" and Gwen Stefani's "Sweet Escape" are two among a handful of tracks that actually work as songs that children could cover well and appropriately. ~ Heather Phares |
Producer: Lars Weiss |
| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 07/31/2007 | | Original Release Date : 2007 | | Catalog ID : 891512 | | Label : Razor & Tie Music | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Runtime : 63m : 35s | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00793018915120 |
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