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{{trope}}
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
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* In-universe example: ''[[Hamlet 2]]''
* ''[[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 (
* [[The Addams Family
== [[Literature]] ==
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* In ''[[Jane Eyre]]'', Adele, Mr. Rochester's eight-year-old (or so) ward's "accomplishment" is the singing of a French song about a woman who has been betrayed by her lover, and plans to wear all her jewels and best clothes to the ball that night to show him how little she cares.
* ''[[The Day Of The Locust]]'': Would-be child star Adore Loomis sings the raunchy blues song "Mama Don' Wan' No Peas" and has the moves to go with it.
* ''[[The Hunger Games (
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* There was an episode of ''[[Dance Fever]]'' where a girl of about 6 lip-synced and danced to [[Madonna]]'s "Like a Virgin".
* A episode of ''[[Grounded for Life]]'' featured the teenage daughter performing "Big Spender" at her [[Christianity Is Catholic|Catholic school]]'s talent show.
* ''[[Arrested Development (TV series)|Arrested Development]]'' featured an [[Incest Is Relative|uncle and a niece and later an aunt and a nephew]] sing "Afternoon Delight" by Starland Vocal Band.
* A lot of ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' characters and sketches have had this over the 37 years ([[Long Runners|and counting]]) it's been on the air. A recent example appeared on the third time [[Scarlett Johansson]] hosted, which featured a sketch about up-and-coming child actresses (played by Johansson and feature player Vanessa Bayer) performing monologues and famous scenes from movies that aren't for children, such as ''[[Brokeback Mountain]]'', ''The Color Purple'', ''A Few Good Men'', and ''On the Waterfront''.
* On ''[[Head of the Class]]'', the students were putting on a production of ''[[Hair]]'' and a discussion of the [[Nude Scene]] came up. Mr. Moore resolved it. First he said that "all the people who think we should do the nude scene stand over here, and all the people who don't think we should do the nude scene stand over here," [[All Women Are Prudes|thus separating the boys from the girls]]. Then he said, "OK, those of you who want the nude scene - get naked!" The boys then decided they didn't want to do the scene.
* Similarly, there's an off-screen performance of ''[[Hair]]'' ("'Black Boys Are Delicious' was quite well-done!") and an on-screen performance of ''Salome'' by elementary school kids on ''[[Two Guys, a Girl And A Pizza Place]]''.
* ''[[Minipops]]'': How's this for a show concept? It's on a mainstream channel at teatime. It features hit songs of recent years being sung by prepubescent children in costumes copied from the original artists and full makeup. Hit songs include, for particularly squickyness, "Nine to Five" by Sheena Easton, in which the singer relates how hard her husband works, but then she's cooked him dinner and they have sex. British television, [[Channel
* Several episodes of the current revival of ''[[Beverly Hills, 90210]]'' centered around high school students preparing a production of the musical ''Spring Awakening'', a play that includes a semi-explicit love-making scene.
* One episode of ''[[Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide]]'' had Ned accidentally painting an orange naked lady in art class.
* All of ''[[Wonder Showzen]]''.
* ''[[Tosh
{{quote| '''Daniel Tosh:''' The great thing about doing this thing in Hollywood is that there is no shortage of awful parents who'll let their kids do anything for a SAG card.}}
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** 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.
* Deliberately done in music videos: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AwoWyEnaMs A school pageant] about Joan of Arc, Conquistadors, and [[No Party Like a Donner Party|the Donner party]]; [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBI_NNeBeXQ kids playing at] [[The War
== [[Real Life]] ==
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* "Little Clarissa" (not [[Clarissa Explains It All|that Clarissa]], one hopes; she looks like a preschool [[Hey Arnold|Helga Pataki]] but let's hope she's not her either): Clarissa's teacher finds a drawing of [http://www.whatisdeepfried.com/COMIX/Family/PAGE1.html a wolf attacking a chipmunk]. {{spoiler|It's Clarissa's way of expressing that her dad violently rapes her every night, and then the rest of her pictures become fearsome.}}
* ''[[
** Also, Dave's original comic was about sex, drugs and random violence. He was twelve at the time. His [[Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff|subsequent project]] isn't much better.
* A very large number of things in ''[[
== [[Web Original]] ==
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