Get This Party Started!

The Countdown Kids

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Get This Party Started! Review

by Heather Phares

Get This Party Started! features renditions of hit pop and rock singles by the Countdown Kids. Though the Kids can actually sing and there's nothing explicitly mature in the lyrics of songs like "Get This Party Started," hearing young children sing about their Mercedes Benzes and diamond rings just doesn't sound right -- it's the aural equivalent of seeing a little girl wearing a full face of makeup. Likewise, technically sound versions of "I Wanna Be With You" and "Everywhere" don't quite work because of the songs' rather heavy and advanced subject matter. Flat versions of songs like "All Star" and "I'm a Believer" also reveal that while the Countdown Kids are good singers for their ages, their pipes aren't quite developed enough for brassy songs like those. Actually, the Kids' versions of dippy dance-pop numbers like "We Like to Party" and "Beautiful Life" are the album's most successful songs, precisely because they're so cheerful and lightweight. Ultimately, the whole concept of kids singing contemporary pop songs seems a bit wrongheaded, but Get This Party Started! mixes youthful innocence and pop hipness as well as it probably can be combined.

Track Listing

Title/Composer Performer Time Stream
1
Get This Party Started
Linda Perry
The Countdown Kids 03:12 SpotifyAmazon
2
All Star
Greg Camp
The Countdown Kids feat: Charity Farris 03:18 SpotifyAmazon
3
I'm a Believer
Neil Diamond
The Countdown Kids feat: Michael Paulauski 03:17 SpotifyAmazon
4
Beautiful Life
J.G. Ballard
The Countdown Kids feat: Ivy Rainwater 03:43 SpotifyAmazon
5
Graduation (Friends Forever)
The Countdown Kids feat: Ivy Rainwater 05:36 SpotifyAmazon
6
Love Don't Cost a Thing
A. Harris / Greg Lawson / Jeremy Monroe / David Sharpe
The Countdown Kids feat: Shelly Lindahl 03:38 SpotifyAmazon
7
Everywhere
Michelle Branch / John Shanks
The Countdown Kids feat: Molly Busby 03:33 SpotifyAmazon
8
Lucky
Alexander Kronlund
The Countdown Kids feat: Shelly Lindahl 03:26 SpotifyAmazon
9
I Wanna Be With You
Tiffany Arbuckle / Shelly Peiken / K.O. Thomas
The Countdown Kids feat: Kristin Lindahl 04:14 SpotifyAmazon
10
We Like to Party
Danski / DJ Delmundo
The Countdown Kids feat: Daniel Chernault 03:44 SpotifyAmazon
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