Jan 23 2009
Caveat Emptor
So my 7 yr old son comes home from school, is all done with his homework and asks if he can play X-box 360. We tell him to set the timer, which he knows means 30 mins. – that’s all the video we’ll allow either one of our boys in one sitting.
I know. I know. I’m a stick-in-the-mud; too strick and my kids are going to be social misfits when they grow up and have to deal with the rest of their generation becuase I’m stunting their thumb-gaming skills. Anyway…
As he’s playing his favorite game that we purchased at our local Walmart, ”MX vs. ATV Untamed”, I turn up the volume to listen to some of the head-banging (not my style - but my dad didn’t like my music either) that is played in the background everytime one of our children are mentally racing around on a quad.
It is very subdued, but here’s a sample of of one of the tracks that turns out to be ”Soul Crusher” by Operator:
Soulcrusher
Soulcrusher
He’s an innovator
Don’t care what you give up
He’s one of the ones
You hate that you love but you can’t get enough.
So Get your head out your ass now,
Quit wasting my time.
We won’t live forever,
So make up your mindSoulcrusher, no other.
Soulcrusher don’t give a f*ck about youHe’s the old unforgiver
The cold shoulder giver
He’s one of the ones
You hate that you love but you can’t get enough.
So Get your head out your ass now,
Quit wasting my time.
We won’t live forever,
So make up your mindSoulcrusher, no other.
Soulcrusher don’t give a f*ck about you
Not the kind of stuff that any loving parent would want their kid listening to, over-and-over thousands of times until they believe it.
It turns out that it’s not this just one either. But since I don’t want to post any more of the ”Give up on yourself”, [insert your choice of expletives here]“, or “Resist the ones that love you ” trash on this site than necessary for other parents to see what’s going on, I’m including a track list at the end of this post.
I’ve heard and read enough to be informed, but if the list itself isn’t descriptive enough, just copy and paste the title and I-won’t-even-call-them-an-artist into your favorite search engine. You’re sure to find numerous pages with the lyrics.
Afterwards my son & I sat down and talked and we decided together that this kind of language and attitude belong out in the gutter, not in our home. The disc has been broken and put in its appropriate place - the trashcan. He’s one smart 7 yr old.
MX vs. ATV Untamed Tracklist
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