Report: Heavy Metal Lullabies Gaining Popularity
January 16, 2009, 15 years ago
Paul Nelson from Ksl.com is reporting:
Who says heavy metal can't put your kids to sleep? A company that produces lullaby albums is getting more and more popular. But they're not your usual lullabies.
Your baby has trouble sleeping. A nice soothing lullaby should calm him or her down. So you turn on some AC/DC, METALLICA or U2.
Of course I'm not talking about the regular versions of these songs.
Dr. Ross Flom, an associate professor of psychology at BYU, said, "Obviously they've stripped away the lyrics. We wouldn't want our young infants hearing [the original version of] ‘Enter Sandman' by Metallica."
Yeah, when kids get older, lyrics like "It's just the beast under your bed…" may freak them out.
The lullabies are part of the Rockabye Baby series from the CMH Label Group in L.A. It has release 23 lullaby cover albums featuring groups like COLDPLAY, THE BEACH BOYS, NIRVANA, RADIOHEAD, NO DOUBT and BJORK.
To get some insight into these lullabies, I spoke to Dr. Flom, who authored a recent study showing babies can distinguish between happy music and sad music.
"They don't necessarily know it as ‘happy' or know it as ‘sad,' but they know that ‘this' sounds different than ‘that,'" he said.
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