Our of our family's great vices is eating out. A while back, we were at a restaurant when our son began to sing and dance in his seat. It was the (in)famous Gangnam Style by Psy. Now, I just had to look up the title of the song to spell it correctly; I know the song because of the students at my school, but I never played it at home. How did my son know about this phenomenon so well? It was because he watched a Minecraft parody song to the tune.
The interesting thing is that this isn't the first time that my son has known about popular music through Minecraft. I pulled him away from playing Minecraft (planting TNT in the Wither) to give me just a short list of the songs he knows that are Minecraft versions of current top 10 hits.
Revenge
I'll Make Some Cake
Creepers are Terrible
Unless he actually sings them or gives me the links (neither of which he was interested in doing when I interrupted him), I don't recognize what the original song is supposed to be. I vaguely recall there's a version of Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" that is a tribute to Minecraft. I wonder how many other current events or references are highlighted through Minecraft related videos? After all, my son understands the Bible a lot more in depth because of that video game "The Binding of Isaac" (a game which, I should mention, he's never played; he has only watched play-throughs on YouTube). What else might he pick up when it wears a Minecraft skin?
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