As for Sholom Ber, you’re spoiling it for people! More spoiling follows:
In Kivi and Tuki Vol. 4, you find out that he actually didn’t drown!
(Yeah, it contradicts the “never seen again” part. Too bad!)
And, I’ll take “The Little Kinderlach” over “Kars 4 Kids” any day.
Is there some connection between these? “Kars 4 Kids” is an
Oorah commercial jingle that was created much more recently.
…when frum bands parody modern pop songs
by folks like edited and edited
And put the names of the original artists in the notes, too!
Why should those names be brought into Jewish houses?
In comparison to the “oldie” songs Country Yossi and
[Gershon] Veroba have parodied over the years, modern pop songs
have little to no artistic merit.
Eh. That’s arguable in some instances.
…religious people who may not otherwise have heard these
songs might still become exposed and desensitized to the (for the
lack of a better word) musical style of this (typically) morally
incompatible genre and not know to stay away if/when the original
junk starts playing.
I don’t know if “You shouldn’t copy non-Jewish music because
people will get used to the sound of it, and then they won’t be
immediately sonically repelled by actual non-Jewish music”
is a valid complaint, or whether the underlying idea is correct.
There may be an inyan that on principle, our music
should be different from theirs, to show that we’re separate.
I plan on reading a couple of pages off the Internet
about Jewish views on music in the near future.