Chances are, if you showed your kids a pic of Adele or Kanye, they may be able to name them. Parents love music: We let our kids dance to music videos; we choose the clean versions of pop music for our Spotify playlists. But some of the music we grew up with that dominated MTV back in the day when they used to actually play music videos? Your kids have no idea who these weird pop stars are.
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