Lakers aren’t making beautiful music for Kobe Bryant’s ears

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Kobe Bryant hasn’t had much to complain about since early last season, before the Pau Gasol deal, before Andrew Bynum began to develop, before the Lakers reached the 2008 NBA Finals against the Celtics.

But he has been privately agitated -- until the February/March issue of Complex, in which he says in an interview with Mark Ecko that he doesn’t like the Laker Girls’ music.

‘You have to take that up with ownership,’’ he tells Ecko when asked about NBA dance squads. ‘One thing I will say about it, though, is the music -- at least in our arena. We just played in Washington and Big Tigger was the DJ and it was rockin’.

‘Our games, you walk in, it’s like 1980s, ‘cause they’re playin’ Cyndi Lauper, and all this other kind of corny stuff. And my kids can’t move to that at all. The music needs to be upgraded. Sincerely.’’

In the wide-ranging interview, Bryant talks about many other things, including a private failure that keeps him up at nights.

Disclaimer: There is some coarse language in the interview.

-- Randy Harvey