When I came home Thursday night, my parents were cleaning up after dinner and my brother was watching TV. My parents told him to change the channel so we can watch the news. As I was about to go upstairs the newscaster’s words, “Too Sexy for Stage?”caught my attention. Shorty after this headline, a video was shown. This video showed 8-9 year old girls performing a dance routine on stage to a Beyonce song called, “All the Single Ladies.” Keep in mind these girls are only 8-9 years old.
Now when I saw this video my jaw dropped and I thought, “Oh heck no, no way, uh-uh!” I couldn’t believe what I had just seen. I think that these moves and outfits were definitely way too sexy for their age. Even Beyonce herself had more clothes on in her music video than these girls had on stage! These are the kind of outfits and dance moves high school dancers are often criticized for…now elementary school girls are being criticized for that? As I sit here and think of all the possible explanations…I really can’t think of any. Here are what parents of one of the dancers had to say about their dance performance.
The father just said, “they’re young….they don’t know what they’re doing…” Is that true? What do you think?
May 17, 2010
chubbybuns
