Title: Why Alouette??
Review: If you can stand the unbearable overperkiness and artificial constant excitement in the "children's" voices, it's a nice intro to music from around the world. Kids don't seem to mind and love it.All expected country stereotypes are duly reinforced, without a mention of any of the issues many of these countries are also associated with. Fine, it's a sugar-coated Dora world.As mentioned before, especially given the mickey-mouse speed at which they speak/sing (CD length is achieved thorough over-repetition), lyrics & translations might have helped.Or not: The French song selected, "Alouette", is an extremely CRUEL song about plucking a little bird's feathers, body part by body part... rendered in Dora's excruciatingly upbeat way. Sigh. Couldn't they have picked any less gut-wrenching song, e.g. "Sur le pont d'Avignon", "Frere Jacques", "Au clair de la lune", ...?? We're always skipping "Alouette" because I just know too much French to bear it.
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