• Is it age appropriate?

  About our ratings

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  Not age appropriate for kids under 10, age appropriate for kids over 13; suggested age 12.

• Is it any good?

  3.0

• Common Sense says

  A few drinking and drug lyrics mar otherwise clean album.

Why We Rated This for Ages 12–13

The good stuff

• Role models:

  Aside from a couple of eyebrow-raising messages in certain songs, the guys in Boys Like Girls are reasonably good examples of how to be young and hip without boasting about various sexual exploits or extremely hard partying. 

What to watch out for

• Messages:

  While this album is largely inoffensive, a few questionable messages do appear -- including the drinking/drug allusions in "Love Drunk" and "Chemicals Collide," and, in "Contagious," mention of reckless driving: "I'm flying down the fast lane / Doing 95-90, things on my brain."
• Violence:

  Not an issue.
• Sex:

  No talk of the act itself, but lots of references to kissing.
• Language:

  Just a couple of swear words, like bulls--t.
• Consumerism:

  Not an issue.
• Drinking, drugs, & smoking:

  The song "Love Drunk" compares being in love to getting drunk, and "Chemicals Collide" describes it as a "high."

What Parents Need to Know

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