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Princess Katie & Racer Steve - Songs for the Coolest Kids
- Songs for the Coolest Kids, by Princess Katie & Racer Steve, is a feel good album for children of all ages, with upbeat songs about ordeals every youngster goes through.
“Tell Them How You Feel” has kids giggling in the intro, then electric guitar kicks in. A female vocalist expounds on how her emotions change from time to time from euphoric to morose, with lines like, “Sometimes I’m so happy I could almost squeal. Other days I’m so sad. I gotta tell someone how I feel.” The female vocalist seems almost desperate to unload her feelings, no matter what they are, to someone who will listen.
“Jeans!” is a cute song about clothing and also about how what is inside a person is just as important, if not more so, than what is outside. The track begins slow with guitar and drum work, then a male in the background contributes “1,2,3,4.” Then, the lady vocalist starts in on a dilemma all young people have faced in their lives, the quest to be popular, with lines like, “It doesn’t matter what you wear. Just matters what you do. Cool isn’t something you put on. Cool is something that’s inside of you.” Truer words were never spoken and for an insecure youth, this song might make them feel they aren’t alone in their quandary.
“Sid the Bully” is another song about a typical adolescent experience, knowing a bully. Downhome drum play and a quick beat drives this song home as the female vocalist takes listeners back to their younger years when they knew a kid that liked to torment those smaller than him. She paints a picture of the possible emotional scars that this boy might have had that caused him to act as he did, with lines like, “I remember a long time ago I knew a kid, he ran around actin’ like a bully and I think his name was Sid. Sid didn’t have a lot of friends cuz he fought everyone he’d seen. The truth was Sid didn’t like himself and that’s just why he was mean. He’s just a bully.”
Princess Katie & Racer Steve’s Songs for the Coolest Kids is an educational record and a fun one for children to listen to with both friends and their parents. While listening to it, they might learn some valuable life lessons without them even realizing it.
Reviewer: Sari N. Kent
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Reviewer's Rating: 9
Reader's Rating: 10.00
Reader's Votes: 9
Added: 5-Feb-2007
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