{"id":1547,"date":"2015-04-30T20:26:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T20:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/?p=1547"},"modified":"2024-04-13T20:27:13","modified_gmt":"2024-04-13T20:27:13","slug":"a-rapper-by-any-other-name-is-still-just-as-deep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/?p=1547","title":{"rendered":"A rapper by any other name is still just as deep"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Kidz Bop, really<\/strong>: A Kidz Bop concert may seem funny to the outsider, with little children ages 5 to 12 screaming at the top of their lungs. However, one must remember a hard fact:&nbsp;<strong>this is their Beatles<\/strong>. And for one night only,&nbsp;<strong>the Crest Theatre was their Liverpool<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the uninitiated, the Kidz Bop brand has been around for 15 years. Each of the 28 records released since 2000 feature a cast of children singing over re-recorded and reworked versions of modern hits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kidz Bop\u2019s recent Sacramento soiree drew a capacity crowd of both adoring and adorable fans, featuring a cast of dancers, backup singers, solo artists and more costume changes than a Las Vegas act. At the core of the Kidz Bop crew, however, were the ultratalented singers known simply as the Kidz Bop Kids: Grant Knoche, Bredia Santoro, Ashlynn Chong and Matt Martinez.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A brief conversation with the merchandise vendor and one of the performer\u2019s fathers yielded some little-known information: the singers have a three-year contract; all kids in the show travel with a teacher-advocate and their parents; and all shows are scheduled as fly-in dates on weekends to make sure that&nbsp;<strong>school is the top priority<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Highlights of the show, which lasted over 100 minutes, included male singers Knoche and Martinez singing and serenading two younger fans from the crowd, as well as a spirited version of Pharrell Williams\u2019 \u201cHappy\u201d that had everyone on their feet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another hilarious addition to the night\u2019s program was a brief Q&amp;A session where any fan could ask questions about how the performers attend school, their favorite letter and special things each of the performers can do, such as impersonating Daffy Duck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And while most live children\u2019s events are brief for very good reason, everyone stayed for this nearly two-hour show. During the short intermission, kids bought flashing Kidz Bop microphones, T-shirts and compact discs and returned for the second set to party like it was 1999.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(SN&amp;R)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kidz Bop, really: A Kidz Bop concert may seem funny to the outsider, with little children ages 5 to 12 screaming at the top of their lungs. However, one must remember a hard fact:&nbsp;this is their Beatles. And for one night only,&nbsp;the Crest Theatre was their Liverpool. For the uninitiated, the Kidz Bop brand has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1548,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547\/revisions\/1548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}