music reviews by the kids in my kindergarten class in brooklyn:

all names have been changed.

"soma", the strokes

frances: could you turn this off?

sarah: you don't like it?

frances: no.

sarah: a lot of people think this is a great new band.

frances: who thinks that?

sarah: i don't know. music people.

frances: i think it sounds bad. it hurts my head like a hundred dogs.

"let that show", pernice brothers

sarah: well?

akil: i like the bells in this song.

sarah: you hear bells?

akil: no. should i dance to this song?

sarah: sure.

(dances)

(music is turned down to avoid the "all that shit i put you through" line)

akil: does this song have swears????

sarah: one.

akil: my brother listens to swears music.

"walkin' down the street", the coctails

fernando: my dad knows this song.

sarah: really?

fernando: yeah. he played this song yesterday when i was supposed to go in bed. he played it 20 times, i think.

sarah: what does this song remind you of?

fernando: going to bed and sleeping.

sarah: do you like it?

fernando: maybe.

"bugs bugs bugs", barcelona

eleanor: i don't know what it says.

sarah: "bugs bugs bugs"

eleanor: bugs? like a ladybug?

sarah: something like that.

eleanor: i have a ladybug umbrella. but it broke.

sarah: do you like this song?

eleanor: i like that it is bugs. but i don't like spiders and i also don't like centipedes.

"leave me", kleenex girl wonder

alex: this is NOT good.

sarah: you don't like it? why not?

alex: baaaaaad. this music is making me die (flops to floor in exagerated death fall and sticks tongue out).

sarah: i've seen this person singing their songs before.

alex: (interest revived) you did? is he famous?

sarah: no. definitely not.