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Age Inappropriate Art is when a teen/child either sings a song or has a skit or is involved in some other performance that could be considered [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|not suitable for someone so young]]. Normally [[Played for Laughs]]. Subdivision of [[Troubling Unchildlike Behavior]]. Compare [[Age Inappropriate Dress]], where a character is wearing something that doesn't fit his age. If it's an adult suggesting it, then it's [[Corruption of a Minor]]. See also [[From the Mouths of Babes]].
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
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* ''[[Donnie Darko]]'': The local New Age Guru MCs an event where local elementary school girls perform pop songs en masse in heavy makeup and skimpy clothes. The parents love it. Turns out he's a pedophile.
* In ''[[Jersey Girl]]'', the main character and his daughter have to do a scene from a musical at a school pageant. Everyone, ''everyone'' else does "Memory" from ''[[Cats]]''. The scene they do? "God That's Good", the ''human meat-pie making song'' from ''[[Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Theatre)|Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street]]''. The crowd's reaction is at least half the joke.
* [[The Addams Family (TV)|Uncle Fester]] helps the kids put together [[High
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== [[Music]] ==
* There have been cases of 5-year-olds singing "Lady Marmalade" from ''[[Moulin Rouge]]''.
* ''[[Kidz Bop]]'' is a much-reviled album series of hit songs being sung by children. The songs chosen apparently weren't screened carefully beforehand, as they include [[Green Day]]'s "Boulevard of Broken Dreams", [[Pink]]'s "Who Knew", [[Lil Wayne]]'s "Let it Rock" and [[
** Some singers catch on to this, however. Pete Wentz from [[Fall Out Boy]] refused to greenlight a cover of "Dance Dance", due to it being inappropriate.
* Depending upon one's personal morality standards, there have been cases of under-18 singers performing songs about issues far beyond what some might consider a 14, 15, 16, etc. year-old to have knowledge or experience with. In recent years, such criticism has been leveled against performers such as [[Miley Cyrus]] and [[Britney Spears]], but similar complaints were aimed back in the 1960s at singers such as Annette Funicello and Lesley Gore, too.
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