Lips: Number One Hits (Xbox 360)
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Fantastic karaoke, but adult themes in lyrics and videos.
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What parents need to know
Parents need to know that this fabulously made, highly entertaining karaoke game features the actual music videos for most of the songs it includes. Those videos often feature scantily clad women, sexual material, suggestive dancing, and sometimes cussing, drinking, smoking, and references to drugs. If you keep your children away from these videos on MTV or YouTube, you'll want to exercise the same caution here.
Positive role models:
Women are treated like sex objects (or make themselves into sex objects). It's not every song, certainly, but enough of them to take note.
Ease of play:
The pitch sensor in Lips is a very forgiving judge. In standard play, you can't fail a song.
Violence:
Some videos contain frightening or disturbing imagery, including Rhianna's "Disturbia," Tupac's "California Love," and Tokio Hotel's "Red Set Go," which takes place in a prison camp and features explosions. There's also a bizarre custom video that plays for songs with no video of their own, which features two animated armies battling each other with swords. The doll-like soldiers get limbs cut off and lose stuffing.
Sex:
There is sexual talk in the lyrics of many of the songs, and several videos feature women in revealing clothing, often dancing in a very suggestive manner. Cleavage is everywhere. A few videos show men and women rolling around in bed, including Mariah Carey's "Touch My Body" and Roxette's "The Look." Many also show kissing. A woman's buttocks is grabbed in Black Eyed Peas' "Don't Phunk With My Heart," Dr. Dre raps about pimps in "California Love," Aqua sings lines like, "Undress me everywhere" in "Barbie Girl," and Lily Allen talks about taking her clothes off to become famous in "The Fear."
Language:
Words like "damn" (Jason Mraz's "I'm Yours") and "ass" (Blondie's "Heart of Glass" and Tupac's "California Love") are left uncensored. Harsher words are skipped over in songs by Lily Allen and Rihanna.
Consumerism:
When first placing the game disc in the Xbox 360, you are reminded not to forget about the original Lips game, because you'll need it to earn certain Xbox Gamerscore achievements. Players are also constantly encouraged to purchase and download new song tracks for the game at a price of $2 each.
Drinking, drugs, & smoking:
Multiple videos show people drinking. Lady Gaga's "Just Dance" is all about being drunk (or worse) at a nightclub. Kanye West smokes a cigarette in several scenes of the video for "Heartless." "California Love" makes reference to hemp, and cocaine is specifically mentioned in Beck's "Loser."
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