Little Baby Bum: Music Time

Little Baby Bum: Music Time

Basic educational programming for very young kids, albeit with creative music

6.0

TV Show

United Kingdom
English
Animation, Kids, Music
2023
Eve Ridley, Hannah Jane Fox, Raj Ghatak

TLDR

Today's reminder that the internet is a truly vast place of countless, diverse experiences: the Little Baby Bum YouTube channel has gotten over 32 billion total views.

What it's about

Five young kids learn about different sounds and children's songs at their daycare classes.

The take

There's an entire category of children's television that essentially functions as little more than white noise that parents can use to distract their kids with—which many Little Baby Bum videos wind up being. This Netflix spin-off, however, has just a little more to it: noticeably improved animation, and creative takes on nursery rhymes and other children's songs. Each episode contains three segments focused on a different sound or song, with one of the five main characters learning a simple lesson by the end. The format isn't particularly exciting and each of these roughly seven-minute long segments already feels stretched somewhat thin, but the show still clearly has more effort poured into it than one might expect.

What stands out

Since this is a series aimed at infants and very young kids, the songs can't deviate too much from how we're all familiar with them. But Music Time still finds little nuances to keep things fresh, especially by the time the characters perform on the Rainbow Stage at the end of every segment. Be it a slight change to the arrangement and chords being used, to the addition or alteration of certain lyrics (for example, a song that mixes words from "The ABC Song," "Baa, Baa, Black Sheep," and "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star"), there are actually some pretty interesting things going on here that more music-inclined parents might enjoy discovering.

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