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Tipper Sticker: Good or Bad?

Darkness and Hope 2010/11/19 19:40:42
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Years ago, a woman named Tipper Gore and the Parents Music Resource Center decided that we had to mark every album that is potentialy dangerous for our children.
Since then, kids were supposed to have less ´´dangerous music`` in their ears and heads, but is it so?
Actually, the Tipper Sticker serves more as a promotional sticker instead of a protective sticker.
And this started when she cought her daughter listening to Darling Nikki by Prince.
So far so good, were´s the problem? Oh ya, almost forgot: Pop is the least controled genre. It attack´s mainly Metal, Rock and Rap. They think that danger only comes when you have profanity, when actually loads of pop records have constant sexual mentions.
Furthermore, BIG MISTAKES have been made:
Jay-Z self-censord his lyric´s in a live album. Still he receives a sticker.
Frank Zappa made a INSTRUMENTAL ALBUM called Jazz from Hell, it received the sticker because of the name of a song: G-Spot Tornado. It received a sticker saying EXPICIT LYRIC´S(Please notice that it was an instrumental album).

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  • The Sane One 2010/11/19 19:49:15
    Middle Opinion (It has advantages and dissavantages)
    The Sane One
    +3
    It boosted sales, so it was definitely good for the industry.

    Unfortunately, it also proved that government is largely ineffective in actually DOING anything to protect us.

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  • Northern Star 2010/11/20 03:41:25
    Terrible!!
    Northern Star
    +1
    I mean how can music be dangerous if we only listen to what we want to? Not to mention that this was pretty much designed to work against Rock, Metal and Rap when some Pop tracks (just as for instance Lady Gaga and Britney Spears) are more hazzardous then any metal or rock track out there! PS: I love Rock, I love Metal, I like Rap and I hate Tipper Gore!
  • The Sane One 2010/11/19 19:49:15
    Middle Opinion (It has advantages and dissavantages)
    The Sane One
    +3
    It boosted sales, so it was definitely good for the industry.

    Unfortunately, it also proved that government is largely ineffective in actually DOING anything to protect us.
  • Melizmatic The San... 2010/11/19 20:09:56
    Melizmatic
    +2
    Bingo.

    All Tipper's efforts did was point kids in the right direction of which music their parents would hate the most.

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