{"id":2852,"date":"2024-02-27T18:22:04","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T18:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10633466\/?page_id=2852"},"modified":"2024-03-06T12:06:22","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T12:06:22","slug":"kids-in-america","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10633466\/kids-in-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Kids in America"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Kim Wilde - Kids In America (Official Music Video)\" width=\"580\" height=\"435\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UqMcevcUmqg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The song was written by Kim Wilde&#8217;s brother Rickey and Marty Wilde.<br>Her Father Marty Wilde was a popular Singer in the 50&#8217;s and 60&#8217;s and was among the first British pop stars.<br>The story behind this song is about a girl &#8220;looking out a dirty old window&#8221; and she is telling the guy what to do.<br>The song is also about how kids in America had a more interesting and dangerous life because they weren&#8217;t doing does kinds of thing in England during the 80&#8217;s. <br><br>The synths you can hear in the song were done by Ricky Wilde using a Wasp synth, Which really annoyed Kim when Rickey was playing it in his bedroom and she wanted to listen to Joni Mitchell.<br>Kim Wilde also said &#8220;it had a sort of pulsing beat which ended up turning into Kids in America&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10633466\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/568\/2024\/03\/image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2952\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10633466\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/568\/2024\/03\/image-2.png 1000w, https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10633466\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/568\/2024\/03\/image-2-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10633466\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/568\/2024\/03\/image-2-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10633466\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/568\/2024\/03\/image-2-768x768.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The song was written by Kim Wilde&#8217;s brother Rickey and Marty Wilde.Her Father Marty Wilde was a popular Singer in the 50&#8217;s and 60&#8217;s and was among the first British pop stars.The story behind this song is about a girl &#8220;looking out a dirty old window&#8221; and she is telling the guy what to do.The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":561,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2852","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10633466\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10633466\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10633466\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10633466\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/561"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10633466\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2852"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10633466\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2954,"href":"https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10633466\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2852\/revisions\/2954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10633466\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}