Posted on 04/24/2016 10:04:51 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
The most entertaining part of CNN's State Of The Union is often the tail end when host Jake Tapper presents cartoons he has drawn to illustrate stories in the news. And today he did not disappoint with an interesting angle on the death of Prince, namely the Tipper Gore connection. He reminded us via illustrations that Tipper Gore's once notorious Parents Music Research Center came about in reaction to Tipper and her daughter listening to a Prince album.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
There’s a song by Warrant that’s an ode to Tipper :)
cant print it here.
Denver, Zappa, and Snyder destroyed those congressfools wives in front of a committee.
No. There Are NO DEADHEADS NAMED TIPPER!!! NEEEEVAH!!!!!
I think we should leave Tipper alone. She was trying to protect the children with her stand against raunchy lyrics. Didn’t read the article.
She was an idiot. A statist idiot. An inconsistent entitled statist idiot. She wasn’t trying to protect her kids, she was looking for power and the spotlight.
Old crone.
Yep.
Seems like so long ago, when even Democrats at least gave lip service to the concerns of social conservatives.
People liked making fun of Tipper’s cause, but in many ways she was right. At very least, you need labels to judge the potential filth content. But for a few exceptions, yesterday’s scandalous music is pretty mild compared to the fluent profanity and overt sexualization that grade schoolers are exposed to online day in, day out.
People also laughed at Nancy Reagan’s “Just Say No” campaign against drug abuse. She was shining a light on a big problem and offering the simplest solution available to each one of us.
She was as interested in morality as Algore is interested in glorebull warming now. All for the show and the dough. Hillary had Hillarycare! she needed an issue of her own. Gack, I just threw up a little in my mouth.
I dunno, I think this was back in the 2 Live Crew day, and things were getting very very raunchy. The ground was also being established that blacks could use the “n” word but whites could not.
Well I hope she got some royalties for her efforts. She did more than anybody else to increase the proliferation of raunchy and obscene lyrics in popular music.
It's true. Many recording artists would gratuitously insert obscene lyrics into their recordings to earn the coveted PMRC sticker. For it would often double or triple their record sales.
For the same reason, most film makers put in the obligatory violent scene or profanity so that they can avoid the dreaded "G" rating - which is the kiss of death for any film not made by Disney.
I pretty much agree with you. Yeah, it backfired but that’s often what happens.
Lot begged the men in Sodom not to continue, but they pressed greatly upon the door.
Yes, because we all know it’s the job of the second lady (and the wife of a sexual predator) to tell us plebes what music we can listen to.
Agreed.
I saw Dee Snyder in an interview a few years ago. He said, “Thirty years later, my marriage survives and none of my kids were busted for drugs ...”
I have always found it telling that it was a Democrat who tried to control their decadent music, yet the libertines of the Democrat party never pointed that out. If a Republican Second Lady had done so, then the media onslaught upon all Republicans for the perceived transgression of but one would have been swift and hard.
Are you really comparing Tipper to Nancy Reagan? What a crock...
Tapper spent national airtime on what would otherwise be a footnote to Prince’s life because it matters today. And his “lesson” is about social conservatism (which was the position taken by Tipper Gore back then on this issue), and the “moral of the story” is how Bible-believing Christians/social conservatives get all upset about what proves to be “nothing” in the course of time. This “moral” is then to be applied to the culture war battles going on today.
Looking at the lyrics of just some on the songs on the Filthy Fifteen,” they were and are antichristian. So it isn’t as NewsBusters says, “It was a brutal chapter in the culture wars at the time, though in retrospect both the controversial songs and the warning label sticker may seem like not that big a deal thirty years later.”
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