Updated: Kids' Music Smackdown!

Interesting episode of Soundcheck on WNYC today; listen here.

At one point, Limor Tomer (WNYC's director of programming) equates the Baby Loves Disco events to a visit to Chuck E. Cheese. (Except, presumably, with fewer fights.) Her basic argument is that it's all about sensory overload and doing things that parents like rather than what the kids like.

Can that possibly be right? I've never been to one, but almost all of the feedback I've seen, and the descriptions I've read, have made it sound like it's pretty kid-focused. I don't think you sell out a ton in a row if the kids hate it. Maybe it's just a way to make it sound like a debate even without having any particularly good reason to be a debate...

Update: I only heard about five minutes of this, and I understand from the comments on their post and from a couple of e-mails that Tomer went after kids' music more generally. You should definitely go check out the comments section (and note friends-of-the-show Tor and Beth in the comments, among others), but I feel compelled to quote this from the mysterious Molly from South Carolina (hey, I know a Molly from South Carolina):

Seriously, why take your kids to a Pixar film when there's the entire Woody Allen catalog to explore? Why read Where the Wild Things Are when the works of Nabokov are gathering dust on your shelves? Stop insulting your children by exposing them to material that attempts to speak to their current human condition!

Molly from South Carolina, you're my hero.