Someone pour me up another shot of apple juice.
No, unfortunately, those aren’t the real lyrics to this cover track, but they should have been. Kidz Bop has done it again by turning one poorly written song into an even more poorly written song. This time, the victim being Shaboozey’s 2024 hit, “A Bar Song (Tipsy).”
The popular kids parody recording company recently released their version earlier this month, on February 6. Before its release, Senior Vice President Michael Anderson sat down with Parade magazine for a full divulge on the 25th anniversary album that just dropped.
Given its undeniable popularity and mass success, spending 19 weeks at Number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, it was certainly an alluring track to remake– minus its alcohol themed title. Anderson revealed, “It’s called ‘A Bar Song,’ like I can’t change that, but we have collaborated with him, and he let me rewrite the lyrics.”
Per Shaboozey’s support, the new track, unlike many other of the Kids’ Bop remakes, has been completely rewritten to be more kid-friendly. Its title, on the other hand, despite it’s well intentions, misses the mark on appropriateness.
Opposed to “A Bar Song,” they renamed it to “A Bop Song (A Shaboozey Cover).” For those out of the loop on modern lingo, ‘Bop’ has apparently grown to no longer just mean a groovy song or a good beat. Now, the three-letter word insinuates a promiscuous woman, oftentimes used in the comment sections of TikToks to refer to someone who’s immodest.
In the new definition, the sexual, less-than-admirable term goes far beyond internet lingo or just an Urban Dictionary term. Its new meaning has landed itself on the Merriam-Webster dictionary, where they now classify bop as “an offensive term for someone (usually a young woman) seen as promiscuous.”
It generally gained traction around 2021 when rapper Almighty Rexxo released his track, “Lala Bop,” leading to a 2023 social media trend where people would use the sound on TikTok to call out young women for being sleazy.
Despite its laughable name in this context, the song in comparison is extremely PG. The infamous chorus sings, “someone turn it up and dance along with KB. They know we and Shaboozey got a history. There’s a party downtown near Fifth Street. Everybody in the place sing it with me.”
Following the release of their most recent album, Kidz Bop 52, this latest single currently has almost 117 thousand streams on Spotify, meaning somewhere out there in the world, there are families jamming to the Bop song.