Math and music in early childhood education

I read an article entitled, "Music makes math meaningful." I love the relationship between math and music, it has always been something that has fascinated me. I wouldn't really have picked this article as my favorite seeing as how I'm not really interested in the effects it has on early childhood, but after reading it, i was thoroughly impressed. The author talked about how a lot of early childhood songs are integrated with mathematics in order to instill a complex framework of thinking as early as possible. One of the studies discussed in the article pointed out that math skills are usually stronger in a student with a musical background. The author was also hung up on the fact that math and music build great pattern recognizing skills. For example if a child repeats a phrase of a song over and over, he/she will likely remember it. The difference is that when a child sings the phrase, it is much more enjoyable than if it was just repeated textually. I can obviously read with the grain because this is a topic i believe strongly in. If i had to draw an argument against it, i don't know if i could. My best one would probably be that people are looking too far into these children's songs and that they're just a means of fun, not preemptive conditioning.