![]() "Who's gonna judge what words actually mean? You're talking about art. "It gets very complicated, because it's a First Amendment issue, it's freedom of speech," he continued. ![]() Parents, a couple of senators' wives, Al Gore's in particular, started looking at song lyrics and decided that they need to protect their children by reading song lyrics, so parents are making parents' job easier as parents to protect their children from our words. And for every action, there's a reaction, and kids were pushing back, young people were pushing back on conservatism by acting out in a very outrageous, with the party lifestyle and all that stuff. And you look at the all the '80s music - it was very sensational and outrageous at times, but it also reflects the time… It was the Reagan era, and it was very conservative at the time. He said (hear audio below): "For every reaction, there's a reaction, and during the decade of decadence, which is how they refer to the '80s as, and that's all the hair bands. O for occult themes, S for sex, D for drugs, V for violence, etc.),which resulted in the "Parental Advisory" sticker now found on new album releases with "questionable content." The incongruous trio of Dee Snider, Frank Zappa and John Denver were called before Congress to testify in defense of music.ĭee spoke about the experience in a new interview with "Hardcore Humanism With Dr. In 1985, the Parents' Music Resource Center ( PMRC),led by Tipper Gore, was trying to introduce a parental warning system that would label all albums containing "offensive material." The system was to include letters identifying the type of objectionable content to be found in each album (e.g.
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