Posted on 07/08/2007 7:48:34 PM PDT by JohnRand
"In 1985, led by Tipper Gore, the Parents Music Resource Center compiled a list of offensive rock songs - the so-called “filthy fifteen." The PMRC then sent the list to music industry execs, demanding both a rating system for lyrics and the application of warning labels - deemed “Tipper Stickers” by some - on albums."
Now Al contracts with one of the so-called "filthy fifteen" to headline his Live Earth event!
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It doesn’t matter who you’ve trashed in the past, they can all unite around a common cause, and that cause is
HATE-BUSH-GET-BUSH-STOP-BUSH-IMPEACH-BUSH-BUSH-BUSH-BUSH-BUSH-BUSH-BUSH-BUSH-BUSH-BUSH-BUSH-BUSH-BUSH-BUSH-BUSH-BUSH-BUSH-BUSH-BUSH-BUSH
They are all a part of one big slimey family.
Al is in this for the money , He couldcare less about the environment. This scam could make a lot of politicians rich.
Not that most of them arent already.
Al may not have invented hypocrisy but he is well on his way to perfecting it. He is the most delusional, irrational, and mean-spirited person this side of Jimmy Carter.
I would say her effort completely backfired. The "Explicit Lyrics" label is more of an advertisement than a warning. Recording companies can make the most offensive and tasteless stuff that they want and as long as it has the label, it is OK.
The irony of the ironicleness is so ironic.
I sure hope somebody can calculate how much Gores carbon credit company is making because of all this.
1985 was a BC date, before Clinton.
After experiencing and supporting Bill Clinton’s excapades, folks like Madonna are suddenly raised to the height of cleanliness.
When the PRMC labels first appeared on albums, it was routine for vice squads to arrest minimum wage record store clerks (acting on instructions from management) for selling the albums to minors.
Nice way to throw the little guy under the bus, Al.
It’s all politics. Nothing else matters to Al Gore Jr. except to live out his daddy’s dream of becoming President.
Frank Zappa’s kids endorsed Gore in 2000. Frank might’ve disowned his kids over that foolishness.
Geez, somehow I didn't know they did that. What a travesty. I'm a big Zappa fan from way back (60's) and I agree -- he spun in his too-early grave over that betrayal.
I have to disagree. The entire idea of the PMRC was to keep parents aware of what was in the music that was popular at the time, knowing that many parents mistakenly thought it was no more sexually explicit or verbally violent than the music they listened to when they grew up. That's how it all got started, when Kandi Stroud's daughter shared with her Prince's Purple Rain track "Darling Nikki," with its lyrics about Nikki the "sex fiend...masturbating with a magazine..." (Stroud's daughter first told her mother to ignore the lyrics).
The entertainment industry, of course, conjures up the spirit of Joseph McCarthy whenever someone on Capitol Hill speaks up about how family-unfriendly the industry standard has become. For example, Jackson Browne once speculated that if there could be a label for sexual and violent content, could there someday be one for political content? Someone might object to his song "Redneck Friend," and label that LP, he suggested. Such fears were unfounded, but they were good for getting everyone revved up.
The left gave the Gores a pass on the PMRC thing back in 2000. Twisted Sister's Dee Snider, who battled Al Gore battle in the Senate hearings, endorsed Gore. Tipper, who plays drums, even backed the late Frank Zappa's daughter Diva on a song lamenting not having anyone to make out with on New Year's Eve. And when Eminem took on Lynne Cheney for her role in the establishment of the "PARENTAL ADVISORY: EXPLICIT LYRICS" label in his smash single "Without Me," ("I know you got a job, Ms. Cheney...") Tipper's name was nowhere to be heard.
If someone had told one of the music industry mavens in the eighties that Al Gore would, for his own political goals, embrace the likes of Snoop Dogg and allow him to perform at a concert he promoted, they would not only have refused to believe it, they would pledge they wouldn't be caught dead cooperating. But Bush Derangement Syndrome makes strange bedfellows.
IMHO, there is nothing wrong with "self-censorship" if it doesn't prevent you from getting a point across. Sometimes, it's better that you don't "let it all hang out" and prove yourself to be a jerk. Prime example: Ann Coulter at CPAC.
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