We Sing 80s

Educational Value

Kids can learn about singing and matching pitch as they belt out songs from the 1980s. The Lessons section helps players understand pitch and lets them practice achieving the right pitch in the songs they sing. This training mode, though, is hit and miss. Players can use falsettos to hit notes that are octaves higher than what's asked for, and the game will still record those note as a good score. Kids who play We Sing 80s will come away with an understanding of how to match pitch when singing a song as well as a history of the popular songs of the 1980s.

Positive Messages

We Sing 80s will cue players with text messages and points if they succeed in hitting the right pitch during a lyrical phrase. If the right pitch is achieved, players may get a text pop-up telling them they were "perfect," "brilliant," or "awesome." If the right pitch is wildly missed, the pop-up message may read, "Awful."

Positive Role Models

We Sing 80s is a potpourri of songs from the 1980s, and each song is accompanied by the music video that was released to MTV and other video music forums. As anyone who has ever watched music videos knows, sexual innuendo and objectification of women are common.

Ease of Play

Although the game does have a mode called Lesson, the 30 vocal objectives rely more on pitch than on players actually being adept at singing the lyrics. Even then, hitting a note an octave above or below what is called for will still yield a passing grade.

Sex, Romance & Nudity

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Products & Purchases

Because some of the videos in We Sing 80s take place in the real world, there might be some signs appearing in the background, but there's no direct link to the images.

Parents Need to Know