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Your eyes are closed if you haven't noticed a massive difference between the years of Elvis and today.

This is basically verbatim the logic that denied me a childhood, just time-shifted a bit. Your kids may not thank you for it.

I think your responses have made my point way more eloquently than I could do myself, so I guess I'll leave it here.

And I'll reiterate: Just because "everyone is doing it" does not make it worth doing just to fit in.

I urge you to consider that fitting into the culture isn't worth it if the culture is bad. You may not see the culture's taste in music as bad, which is fair, but I am sure in other cultures (say in highly restrictive and conservative cultures) you'd be ashamed to be culturally literate (antebellum south? Jim Crow era?).

i am going to have to disagree. you make it sound like that becoming a loner is a better option than fitting in with the cardi b crowd. but that is a false alternative. if the cardi b crowd is not something you want to subject your kids to, then you need to provide an alternative community for them. you can't just cut them off from everyone just because you don't like their culture.

Maybe you should learn more about Elvis. The sexual content was there.

Of course. He kissed women in the audience left and right. But he was fully clothed, which visually, is a very striking and obvious difference.

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