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Video · YouTube · Luis Fonsi · 2017

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Appetite · Not for a child

Despacito

30Leave it.

The first twenty seconds are bodies on a beach. The billion views do not change the picture.

Take controlThis scores 30. If you do not want Despacito in the house, the steps are on YouTube. Block it

The review

Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee on a bright beach, dancing, and a hook that does not need a translation to land. Adults have heard worse, and a review that clutches its pearls at a pop song is not doing its job. The job is to say what a child actually meets. In the first twenty seconds the camera is on bodies. The words can stay mysterious. The picture does not.

It is near the top of the most-watched list, so a parent searching that list will find it and wonder if we skipped the obvious. We did not. It can exist in the world. It does not belong between the bath song and the bus in a queue a child can start. Skip it when it comes up. You do not owe a billion views your living room.

Journal

Keep Despacito in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 30. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety and Courage and Republic and Temperance and Truth and Stewardship are the thin ones.

Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

Bath Song

43 instead of 30

Bath Song is still a music film, and it scores 43 instead of 30. What you gain is household: The evening of a small house is the actual subject, for three minutes.

The eight

6
Industry
A song people wanted, played and filmed with real craft.
2
Household
The scene is desire. A kitchen is not in it.
2
Piety
The camera's interest is skin, from the opening shot.
3
Courage
Nobody is asked to risk anything but a dance.
3
Republic
A party on a beach, not a street you owe anything to.
2
Temperance
The beat is built to be replayed, not to arrive anywhere.
4
Truth
It does not pretend to be a lesson. A child still will not follow the Spanish, only the camera.
2
Stewardship
Nothing in it is for a child to keep.

Where to watch

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Live Historic · Despacito · 30IMDb

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Video · YouTube · Pinkfong · 2016

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Appetite · A small child, briefly

Baby Shark Dance

35Leave it.

One play teaches the hands. The corner of the screen is already offering the next one.

Take controlThis scores 35. If you do not want Baby Shark Dance in the house, the steps are on YouTube. Block it

The review

The picture is a family of sharks, pink and cheerful, and a chorus that names them one by one: baby, mommy, daddy, grandma, grandpa. A toddler learns the hands. That is the whole work of the video, and it is why this is the most-watched thing on YouTube rather than a secret. One play will not harm anybody.

The trouble is the machine around the song. It ends and another one is already sitting in the corner, same faces, same pace. Sing the six sharks once, badly, in the actual room, so a person they know has the words. Then pick a song that stops and stays stopped. If the only family present that afternoon is the cartoon one, you have left the room.

Journal

Keep Baby Shark Dance in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 35. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Piety and Courage and Republic and Temperance and Stewardship are the thin ones.

Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

Bath Song

43 instead of 35

Bath Song is still a children film, and it scores 43 instead of 35. What you gain is industry: Water, soap, pajamas.

The eight

4
Industry
The same melody six times. The child is not asked to make anything.
6
Household
Mama, papa, grandma, and grandpa shark are the whole cast.
2
Piety
No one in the video is bound by anything but the dance.
2
Courage
Nobody risks a fall, a no, or a feeling.
3
Republic
Millions of toddlers do the same hands at the same time.
3
Temperance
When it ends, the next thumbnail is a cousin of this one.
5
Truth
It does not pretend a shark is a lesson. It is a dance.
3
Stewardship
The tune stays in the head. That is not the same as having something to keep.

Where to watch

Finding the page.

Live Historic · Baby Shark Dance · 35IMDb

Despacito

Keep Despacito in the record.

Bath Song

Baby Shark Dance

Keep Baby Shark Dance in the record.

Bath Song

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