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\n\t\t\t\t\t\tChappell Roan performs onstage during the 67th GRAMMY Awards.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\tChappell Roan performs onstage during the 67th GRAMMY Awards.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Amy Sussman\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n
There\u2019s a new hit song in right-wing Valley circles. It goes something like this:<\/p>\n
God, what have you done?\u00a0
You played \u201cPink Pony Club\u201d
In my kid\u2019s music class, oh mama<\/p>\n
That\u2019s the refrain some easily upset Valley parents are allegedly singing, says the conservative parent group Scottsdale Unites for Educational Integrity<\/a>. According to the group, and a subsequent article in the right-leaning Arizona Daily Independent<\/a>, some parents are livid that a sixth-grade music teacher at Desert Trails Elementary in North Phoenix played the 2023 Chappell Roan hit \u201cPink Pony Club\u201d during music class.<\/p>\n Not the radio version, which every kid, no matter how sheltered, has heard ad nauseam for two years. A \u201cBoomwhackers\u201d version, which involves striking rainbow-colored percussion tubes together at the direction of a YouTube video. Think Guitar Hero but with, well, boomwhackers.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\tThis year, make your gift count \u2013<\/strong><\/strong> \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOur work is funded by readers like you who make voluntary gifts because they value our work and want to see it continue. Make a contribution today to help us reach our $30,000 goal!\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n The incident, if you can call it that, happened in late November at the school, which is in the Paradise Valley Unified School District. (Which itself is, confusingly, not in Paradise Valley.) According to the U.S. News and World Report, more than 650 students attend the school from pre-K through 6th grade.<\/p>\n The Independent named the music teacher in question, but Phoenix New Times is withholding the teacher\u2019s name to prevent them from being the target of harassment.<\/p>\n While the more well-adjusted among us might say, a la Chappell Roan, \u201cthey\u2019re just having fun,\u201d the conservative parent group clutched its pearls at preteens hearing a song inspired by a gay bar in Los Angeles that it said was \u201cintended to promote Queer liberation & joy and to celebrate LGBTQ+ spaces as places of acceptance and empowerment.\u201d<\/p>\n Acceptance and empowerment? What warped ideology will they push next?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n The group and the Daily Independent also criticized Roan\u2019s lyrics, such as \u201cI heard that there\u2019s a special place where boys and girls can be queens every single day\u201d and \u201clovers in the bathroom and a line outside the door.\u201d Plus, the Independent pointed out the song\u2019s music video \u2014 which notably, was not shown in the music class \u2014 shows Roan dancing in a club, \u201cgyrating on the pole of her microphone.\u201d<\/p>\n The parents\u2019 group asked parents to email the district\u2019s governing board. Social media users called the situation \u201csickening,\u201d and one called for the teacher to be arrested and \u201cput on the sex offender registry.\u201d<\/p>\n Parents continued to complain after they alleged that the elementary school put up more Pride posters around the school after the initial round of complaints, according to the Independent<\/a>. Neither the Paradise Valley Unified School District nor the school responded to New Times\u2019 attempt to verify that claim.<\/p>\n Unless you\u2019ve been living under a rock for the last two years, it\u2019s impossible that you haven\u2019t heard the upbeat, catchy tune of Roan\u2019s \u201cPink Pony Club\u201d from her smash debut album, \u201cThe Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n The album blew up in early 2024 \u2014 propelled up by the success of the song \u201cGood Luck, Babe!\u201d \u2014 and much of that year was defined by Roan. \u201cThe Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess\u201d was Spotify\u2019s fifth-most popular album in the U.S. last year, and Roan won Best New Artist at the Grammys this year. \u201cPink Pony Club\u201d remains one of the most popular songs in the U.S., landing among the top 10 songs<\/a> in the U.S this year on Spotify Wrapped.<\/p>\n And yes, \u201cPink Pony Club\u201d does have slightly grown-up themes, but no more than most songs heard on the radio every day. And parents who want to protect their 11- and 12-year-olds from it probably would need to move to the moon to do so. Might be the kind of safe space these people so obviously need.<\/p>\n But if they can just get kids to stop saying \u201csix-seven\u201d\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chappell Roan performs onstage during the 67th GRAMMY Awards. 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