My child won't stop singing the "Lava Chicken" song from the Minecraft movie. How do I go on living?
Ok Lemmings look, I love life and I love my family, so I'd hate to have to blow my fucking brains out. So what's another strategy for tuning out this incessant lava chicken?
Alternatively, does anyone have a time machine and enough money to convince Jack Black to not do the Minecraft movie?
Depending on how cool you are maybe if you start singing it they'll stop
that's what they™ want you to do
Right!
Nice try son.
Whenever they would start singing it, I would sing
Cha-cha-cha-lava, La-la-la-chicken!
back at them until they got annoyed enough that they stopped.
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THAT'S NOT HOW IT GOES, DAD!
... Oh? It doesn't?
I do live for those moments...
that may be even harder than tuning it out
About 3 days. 🤷♂️ Edit: for clarity, I haven't heard this song in a long while now, those 3-ish days were right after they saw it.
Every dad can decide their own ROI for this. 🤣
Ok, I've officially employed this method, mixing it with some other suggestions in the thread.
Cha-cha-cha-lava,
La-la-la-chicken!
Oooh chicken jockey
It's a chicken jockey!
Peaches peaches peaches peaches
Woooon-derboy!
I did get a satisfying "no dad, that's not how it goes", but then it resulted in him singing it a few more times... I think I'll just keep it up until it's clear to him he's being trolled, then we'll see what happens.
Mine would crack up and switch to that
Make it inhumanely cringe. Start calling everything lava chicken as a replacement for "cool", make lame ass Minecraft dad jokes at every opportunity, yell chicken jockey out the window to summon your spawn in public.
That wouldn't be very lava chicken of you to do, to ruin a phrase like that.
Go out for a pack of cigarettes, start over.
Record it from all angles at all opportunities and play the video at their wedding. Until then, sustain yourself on the antici
That is some damn fine dadding right there. I think this is a perfect plan.
Genuine question - why is that deemed a good answer? I'd expect an actual solution for a child to be more apropriate than humiliating an adult later in life. Like the suggestions telling to start singing it yourself, wrongly, seem much more effective and appropriate to me.
Full disclosure tho: Not a parent and no plans to ever be one
Calm down there Calculon!
excellent depiction of anticipation. imaginary fake internet points!
Mine has largely gotten over the lava chicken phase, and has moved on to the next incredibly annoying barely sentient compulsion.
Last I checked it was the intro to Ducktales. Have you shown them that? It's so ruinously catchy it may never leave your mind.
Yeah but DuckTales is quality. So that's fine.
Yep. He immediately dialed into it because Gravity Falls is an old favourite, and these shows share a good bit of DNA. I just like to hear Danny Pudi.
That song never left my head and its been living rent free up there since I was a kid
Which one? (ꏿ﹏ꏿ;)
Start singing it with them. Do it sincerely. You'll either kill their joy or you two will have a moment.
Or find a song they hate to constantly sing. Maybe some old person music like Hoobastank.
So many parents don't realize kids can listen to grownup music. My daughter sings so much Greenday, and while it's a little awkward hearing her start singing "I was sober now I'm drunk again"
I have had this exact issue with that frozen music. You are essentially done. Years later i still recall that music.
just let it go
Brutal...
I don't wanna sound old here, but I finally watched that thing a couple days ago and boy did I feel my age there. Clearly I've lived long enough that a whole movie failed to connect with me on any level. I mean it has Jack Black in it and I adore him. I guess what I'm saying is I have no idea how to fix your kid because they're a different people now.
However , the classic old group defense against young slang is taking it up and enthusiastically using it wrong. So enjoy your hot poultry song.
It is not a good movie, but my kids enjoyed it, so I got some vicarious pleasure out of the experience. I wouldn't watch it on my own.
Yeah same. It was our first theater experience together and we had a blast. The movie is aggressively mediocre although it does have a few moments.
I put it on for myself(42) the other day it took all my will to not turn it off 3 mins in, I broke by 25 mins and turned it off. I then mocked my buddy who said it wasn't bad(he has 2 boys in prime Minecraft movie age).
I have an 18 month old girl with another on the way, not looking forward to whatever her equivalent frozen/Minecraft movie is. But I have also sung more wheels on the bus than I can stand.
Do you play Minecraft?
I have yet to watch it but i assume there is very little to connect with if you don't?
Depending on how old your kids are and if you are not already playing, playing on a local server together is great family time and can provide situations for real bonding aswell as real world educational discussions.
I played Minecraft as a teenager when it was in Beta (you can do the math for my rough age based on that) and I took my kids to see it as a fun family outing. It was a fun kids movie, and it was wild hearing the Minecraft soundtrack in the theatre lobby, but honestly while I'm glad I saw it in the theatre, it wasn't anything I'd go out of my way to see again. My kids however have watched it multiple times since it's hit streaming
I don't wanna sound old here...
I got bad news for you, that's basically all we're doing right now.
Unleash the Crazy Frog. Or go nuclear with playing non-stop every single kitsch 70’s romantic songs on repeat—while singing them passionately.
It give’em an hour.
H a m p s t e r d a n c e
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You… still want to keep contact with them, right? I mean, who will take care of you when you’re older?
Unleash...the Sandstorm!
Tell him or her that if it's underground, it's called magma rather than lava.
Haha, that's a pretty good plan for whenever he does something annoying. Just "well actually" at him until he stops.
See if they like "Yellow Submarine" and switch over to the Beatles?
Oh man, this was my history teacher's favorite song back in middle school. Used to play it in class every. day. I thought I got away from that song... And I did for 17 years...
Now it's stuck in my head again!
I was referring to the movie which does have the song. Maybe it works.
since the kid presumably likes games and/or memes i would suggest starting with this beatle classic https://youtu.be/dJ1KaspORsE
Wow, you actually managed to find the other song I absolutely hate when he plays!
Our neighbor got him started with undertale and let me tell you... He is not good at it, and man does he get angry when he dies.
But his undertale tantrums are another story, for now let me just express how tired I am of hearing the undertake soundtrack which he plays on loop, especially megalovania!
You know I played that game once, I thought it did some clever things, but never again... That boy has ruined it for me.
Really any musical, especially one that hits that "I maybe shouldn't be watching this" is a good option. Maybe Dr Horrible's Sing Along Blog? Probably too young for Sweeney Todd
Start singing baby shark song, or what did the fox say. Expand his repetuar repertoire.
Edit: Dino spelling
Repetaur sounds like a great fictional dinosaur to add to my son's repertoire.
Lol, thanks I needed to confirm that dinosaur name
1.1B views…..wow https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jofNR_WkoCE
Steady now, my generation got through the Macarena, you'll get through this. Nice deep breaths... in... out...
And MmmBop (which tbh hits these days in a very sad sad way)
In a mmmbop it really is gone
RIP
Sink enough money into lava chicken paraphernalia for the child to instantly lose all interest in it.
Have them watch too many cooks.
It takes a lot to make a stew
A pinch of salt and laughter too
Oh shit... I don't think he's ready for that level of weird...
Hah, now I just want to know what he'd think of it.
There's always John Daker:
I mean it's not Baby Shark?
It can still be worse,
I once overheard a group of kindergarteners continually yelling “Skibidi toilet” at repeat.
He has a set of shark PJs, and whenever he wears them I sing [his name] shark do do do do do...
And he immediately responds "STOOOOP DAD! PLEASE! I ALREADY TOLD YOU BEFORE!"
And I'll never stop doing it
We have a no baby shark rule, my daughter hasn't latched onto it yet. Whenever it comes on Spotify skip it but sometimes I start singing along before I realize what I'm doing.
Sing it back to them
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCW7AGm8JSBEEew61dJIgl_A
Tom Cardy, one of the best musical comedians of our age. He has many songs with extremely catchy lines that are actually funny while also being tolerable to hear many times over. There is a definite need for a language warning if you are not good with swearing, but his Lord of the Rings one is amazing.
Perception Check is my favorite but wow so many f bombs.
Interrupt by yelling "CHICKEN JOCKEY" every few bars.
I'm not sure that's really gonna make the situation better though...
First you mine. Then you craft. MINECRAFT!
Get back at them by singing Peaches from the Mario Bros movie. You know, Jack Black and all that.
You deafen yourself with a sharp pencil. Only way.
Oh my gosh, your comment made me sick.
I mean really, who in their right mind would even consider that? Personally I can't even imagine just wasting a perfectly good pencil. Please be a responsible adult and use a fork instead (in case you can't fit the fork into your ear canal you might wanna widen it with a spoon first. Btw. spoons are the goto in case your ability to see is bothering you too)
Expose him to Baby Shark.
Then the Badgers song.
Lather, rinse, repeat until he latches onto a song you can tolerate.
My partner and I used to switch between The Electric Slide and The Hustle as our earworms, so one day we mixed them together because it's the same tune. Now THAT is constantly stuck in our heads
All I'm saying is be careful with this approach for you may make a worse monster
My 4yo loves the whole soundtrack. my wife and I just sing along with him
I just showed him hakuna matata and we're singing that too.
Try switching to Parry Grip, some of it is OK and the catalogue is big enough they don't really get stuck.
And just to show solidarity the other day my kid just kept 'teenage mutant ninja turtles'ing for what felt like a half hour without a single 'heroes in a half shell' to round it off.
Not the answer you're looking for, but this reminded me of a short video I saw a long time ago where it was some kids being obnoxious ( as they're known for ) on a train and this man snaps and screams, in Chinese, "Shut up! I wanna die!" because of how tired he was.
Cannot find the clip when I search for it, but I think it's pretty funny. Nor do I remember where I saw it, but that specific little video thing has absolutely stuck with me.l ever since I saw it.
Sue him. Or record him, upload to Youtube and threaten to copyright strike him.
Wait. Before you blow your brain out have you considered surgical removal of your ears?
put some headphones on, blast some music to drown it out
Honestly, this is probably the answer.
"SORRY KID, I CAN'T HEAR YOU OVER MY MUSIC. WHAT? IT'S CALLED RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE, YEAH YOU'D LOVE IT. WHAT? NO, NOT TILL YOU'RE OLDER"
That jingle does suck butt.
Loop this and tell them that Frank is the best entertainer of all time
There's way worse songs this could be happening with...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k85mRPqvMbE&t=3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqZsoesa55w&t=28
Lava chicken is quite groovy actually, tasty. You're in luck.
Play him the meow mix song. It's the alpha predator of ear worms.
This thread is just switching me around from one earworm to another
Depending on your childs age and your bond maybe just tell them you don't like the song? Might just work for some children, if they're able to empathize with you (should be doable for most. Empathy can be taught!)
Noise canceling earbuds/a headset might be an option too (for you, or your child. Doesn't really matter)
Depending on your child's age and your bond you could also simply get rid of the child.
Introduce them to the Chicken Banana song.
I just wanted to watch the chicken jockey scene for closure.
Make your kid listen to Slayer.
Replace it with this delightful little melody https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESViOhqRdlE
Just get an even worse song stuck in your head, like this one: https://youtu.be/lrPncVUR_3Y
Okay boomer
Return to sender