He’s 13, and an avid Usher fan.Īll four say they have been performing since they were very young – and it shows.Īt the concert, a day later, the pre-teens perform a 30-minute set for a crowd of well-dressed toddlers and their parents. “They’re usually really popular songs at the time so you hear them anyway, but you go over them a lot,” Tyler, the only non-silver sporting member of the group tells me about the lyric changes. The lyrics are rewritten by the KIDZ BOP music team which pulls the already cleaned-up radio versions. If you’re not familiar, the group’s signature is covers of top forty hits that are censored to be “family friendly.” One of their recent hits was “About That Time” a take on Lizzo’s 2022 summer smash “About Damn Time.”Īmong the song's changed lyrics are "I'ma need some more pop in my cup," transformed from the original "I'm a need like two shots in my cup." With the shift away from a CD-centric model, the label pumps out nearly one single a week, sometimes with an accompanying music video. The kids are home-schooled, getting instruction from teachers who travel with them or stay in LA when they are recording. “There are busy days, but we have to get those rehearsal times in for tour” Kiya pipes in. “My life has changed a lot,” Shila says about the transition to semi-stardom, admitting it was hard saying goodbye to friends and family to make the move to Los Angeles, but “It’s a really good opportunity.” It’s a heavy lift for (relatively) small shoulders. These kids may not yet be household names individually, but under the KIDZ BOP umbrella, they are responsible for on average over 1 billion streams each year, not to mention concert ticket and album sales. All four performers were giddy about a recent TikTok they had shot with the Jonas Brothers and Kiya gushed about Miley Cyrus, whom she says she loves both as Hannah Montana and as herself. There’s a certain reverence among the group for the child stars that came before. Also among the talent factory's other elite graduates? Becky G and Olivia Holt. Several notable Disney Channel stars (read: Zendaya and Ross Lynch) were originally KIDZ BOP kids. Their fits look straight out of Disney Channel’s costume department − an unintentional homage perhaps to the brand’s greatest success stories.
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