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!!!!!
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.
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.
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.”