Parental Advisory Explicit Lyrics

Alguna vez te preguntaste qué es, o de donde salio esa etiqueta en los cds?

Nota aparte: Antes de comenzar, voy a dejar en claro que el post tiene mucha más información en ingles que en castellano.





El Parents Music Resource Center (Centro de Recursos Musicales de Padres) o PMRC era un comité estadounidense formado en 1985 por las esposas de varios diputados. Algunas de sus integrantes fueron Tipper Gore, la esposa del senador que se convertiría en vicepresidente Al Gore; Susan Baker, esposa del secretario de economía James Barker; y Nancy Thurmond, mujer del senador Strom Thurmond. Su misión era educar a los padres sobre "modas alarmantes" en la música popular. Aseguraban que el rock apoyaba y glorificaba la violencia, el consumo de drogas, el suicidio, las actividades criminales, etc. mientras que abogaban por la censura o la catalogación de la música.



En 1985, la PMRC publicó su famosa lista de canciones titulada "Filthy Fifteen" ("Quince Asquerosas", diciendo a que hacía referencia cada una y porque deberían ser censuradas:

Artista - Título de la canción - Contenido
1 Prince - Darling Nikki - Sexo / masturbación
2 Sheena Easton - Sugar Walls - Sexo
3 Judas Priest - Eat Me Alive - Sexo
4 Vanity - Strap on Robbie Baby - Sexo
5 Mötley Crüe - Bastard - Violencia
6 AC/DC - Let Me Put My Love into You - Sexo
7 Twisted Sister - We're Not Gonna Take It - Violencia
8 Madonna - Dress You Up - Sexo
9 W.A.S.P. - Animal (Fuck Like a Beast) - Sexo
10 Def Leppard - High 'n Dry - Consumo de drogas y alcohol
11 Mercyful Fate - Into the Coven - Ocultismo
12 Black Sabbath - Trashed - Consumo de drogas y alcohol
13 Mary Jane Girls - In My House - Sexo
14 Venom - Possessed - Ocultismo
15 Cyndi Lauper - She Bop - Sexo / masturbación

Los intentos censores del PMRC no se quedaron en eso, llegando incluso a intentar imponer un impuesto especial para aquellos discos que entrasen en las clasificaciones de la asociación.
En un principio, las compañías discográficas intentaron disuadir a los artistas en la forma de escribir sus canciones para que no cayesen en las listas del PMRC, pero el efecto en el público fue justamente el contrario: aquellos discos que contenían la etiqueta PARENTAL ADVISORY se convertían en éxito de manera inmediata multiplicando sus ventas y la fama de sus autores. Este hecho supuso el principio del fin del PMRC e incluso actualmente sus creadores se arrepienten de haber formado parte de la asociación.
Finalmente se ha vuelto a demostrar que los intentos censores en cualquier campo artístico están condenados a fracasar.

Hasta acá la explicación cortita y en castellano, se viene el inglés!

The PMRC claimed that popular music, especially rock music, was partially responsible for the contemporary increase in rape, teenage pregnancy, and teen suicide. The group's mission was "to educate and inform parents" about "the growing trend in music towards lyrics that are sexually explicit, excessively violent, or glorify the use of drugs and alcohol," and to seek the censorship and rating of music.



In October 1984, the National Parent-Teacher Association (PTA) sent a letter to the 30 record labels and to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), proposing the music industry label records that contained "explicit lyrics or content", in order to "take the element of surprise out of buying an album". However, initially none of the record companies agreed to the PTA's proposal. A response letter from RIAA President Stanley Gortikov stated that: "There are wide variations, company to company, within our industry in respect to artists, contractual relationships, marketing considerations and product services."
The formation of the PMRC began in 1984 after Tipper Gore, along with her daughter Karenna, heard Prince's song "Darling Nikki." This track, which appears on the soundtrack to the film Purple Rain, contains graphic references to sex and masturbation.
Gore watched other rock music videos and concluded: "The images frightened my children, they frightened me! The graphic sex and the violence were too much for us to handle." Susan Baker became alarmed after hearing her seven-year-old daughter singing along with Madonna songs that Baker considered "suggestive." Gore and Baker, along with Howar and Nevius, formed the PMRC in May 1985.
The PMRC claimed that the change in rock music was attributable to the decay of the nuclear family in America. Gore asserted that families are "haven[s] of moral stability" which protect children from outside influence, and without the family structure rock music was "infecting the youth of the world with messages they cannot handle."
The PMRC also advocated against supposed subliminal back masking in records, and accused bands including Led Zeppelin and Queen of back masking to promote Satanism and drug use.
In August 1985, 19 record companies agreed to put "Parental Guidance: Explicit Lyrics" labels on albums to warn of explicit lyrical content. However, before the labels could be put into place, the Senate agreed to hold a hearing on so-called "porn rock". This began on 19 September 1985, when representatives from the PMRC, three musicians, and Senators Paula Hawkins and Al Gore testified before the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee on "the subject of the content of certain sound recordings and suggestions that recording packages be labeled to provide a warning to prospective purchasers of sexually explicit or other potentially offensive content."
On November 1, 1985, before the hearing ended, the RIAA agreed to put "Parental Advisory: Explicit Lyrics" labels on selected releases at their own discretion. The labels were generic, unlike the original idea of a descriptive label categorizing the explicit lyrics.

A number of groups referred directly to this sticker in their music or promotional material:
* In 1987, NOFX released an EP entitled The P.M.R.C. Can Suck on This..
* Sonic Youth added an cartoon with the caption "SMASH THE PMRC" on their liner notes of their album Goo.[4] In 2001, Pistol Grip released a song called "Fuck The P.M.R.C".
* The Megadeth song "Hook In Mouth" from their 1988 album So Far, So Good... So What! was highly critical of the PMRC, comparing them to the Orwellian state of Nineteen Eighty-Four. The lyrics state that freedom "means nothing to me, as long as there's a PMRC." In addition, the music video for the song "In My Darkest Hour," off of the same album, as well as the Megadeth portion of the 1988 rockumentary, Decline Of The Western Civilization II: The Metal Years, bassist David Ellefson can be seen with a sticker on his bass that says "Fuck The P.M.R.C."
* Alice Donut released a song named "Tipper Gore" on their 1988 release Donut Comes Alive that ironically used sexual metaphors to encourage Tipper to continue her PMRC crusade.
* On the Dead Kennedys live album Mutiny on the Bay, during their song "M.T.V. - Get off the Air", lead singer Jello Biafra tells the audience to "buy a homemade [record] instead, before the PMRC closes the stores down that sell 'em". The Dead Kennedys also had another conflict with the PMRC in 1986 when their album Frankenchrist came under fire due to the poster that came with it, featuring H R Giger's "Work 219: Landscape XX", better known as Penis Landscape.
* Aerosmith's song "F.I.N.E." from the 1989 Pump features the line "even Tipper thinks I'm alright", suggesting the band had got away with not being censored despite their often raunchy lyrical content.
* The punk band Leftover Crack refer to the PMRC in their song "Stop The Insanity", with the lyrics:
let's kill the cops, the C.I.A
the F.B.I, the P.T.A
the N.F.L, the P.M.R.C
let's kill you and let's kill me
* The Ramones' 1992 album Mondo Bizarro contained the song "Censorshit", which proposes that the sticker is "just a smoke screen for the real problems. S&L deficit, the homeless, the environment."
* Ice-T's album The Iceberg/Freedom of Speech...Just Watch What You Say contains many criticisms of the PMRC. One song in particular, "Freedom of Speech", is an extended attack on Tipper Gore:
Yo Tip, what's the matter? You ain't gettin' no dick?
You're bitchin' about rock'n'roll, that's censorship, dumb bitch
The Constitution says we all got a right to speak
Say what we want Tip, your argument is weak
* A minute-long track tagged onto the end of Warrant's 1990 Cherry Pie was titled "Ode to Tipper Gore" and featured nothing but various swear words recorded in rapid-fire order from past concerts.
* In 1990, thrash/hardcore group Suicidal Tendencies released a song called "Lovely" on their Lights...Camera...Revolution! album, which has a mockingly clean/positive atmosphere to it and even addresses Tipper Gore by name.
* The song Shelter Me, from glam metal group Cinderella's 1990 album Heartbreak Station, contained a lyric which mockingly noted that "Tipper led the war against the record industry/She said she saw the devil on her MTV."
* The Furnaceface song "We Love You, Tipper Gore" from their 1991 album Just Buy It humorously pointed out that the attempt to suppress music of that nature made it much more appealing, suggesting that "... it only makes us want to hear it that much more."
* Welsh rock band Manic Street Preachers made reference to Tipper Gore in their song "Ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart" on the album The Holy Bible.
Rage Against the Machine protesting the PMRC at Lollapalooza.
* On July 18, 1993, Rage Against the Machine protested against the PMRC at Lollapalooza III by standing naked onstage with duct tape covering their mouths and the letters PMRC on their chests. The band used up their 14-minute performance time without playing any songs. The only sound emitted was audio feedback from Tom Morello and Tim Commerford's guitars.
* Other groups have mentioned the PMRC, including The Dead Milkmen ("Here's a dime; run out and call the PMRC" and Harry and the Potters ("We won't let the Dark Lord ruin our party, just like Tipper Gore tried with the PMRC".
The Eminem song White America mentions the parental advisory sticker and the checking of songs throughout the song before going onto say "Fuck you Ms Cheney, Fuck you Tipper Gore, Fuck you with the free-est of speech this divided states of embarrasment will allow me to have".



1984 - Tipper Gore hears Prince's "Darling Nikki" and is outraged.
1985 - Following a meeting at St. Columbia's Church in Washington, D.C. in early May, Tipper Gore, Susan Baker, and twenty wives of influential Washington politicians and businessmen form the Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC). The PMRC's goals were to lobby the music industry for: lyrics printed on album covers; explicit album covers kept under the counter; a records ratings system that is similar to that used for films; a ratings system for concerts; reassessment of contracts for those performers who engage in violence and explicit sexual behavior on stage; and a media watch by citizens and record companies that will pressure broadcasters to not air "questionable talent."
1985 - Christian rock band DeGarmo & Key see their video for "Six, Six, Six." banned by the channel because their music video is too violent.
1985-The PMRC writes to music industry presidents and CEOs and requests a rating system for music lyrics and imagery. The letter contains a list of the "filthy fifteen" (the artists initially targeted by the PMRC), those artists are AC/DC, Black Sabbath, Cyndi Lauper, Def Leppard, Judas Priest, Madonna, Mary Jane Girls, Mercyful Fate, Motley Crüe, Prince, Sheena Easton, Twisted Sister, Vanity, Venom, and W.A.S.P.
1985 - At the urging of the Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC), the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation holds hearings on music lyrics and proposed systems to rate or sticker albums that contain violent or sexually-themed lyrics on September 19th. Representatives from the PMRC and National PTA, Senator Paula Hawkins, and Dr. Joe Stuessy speak in support of regulating music, while three musicians - Frank Zappa, Dee Snider (of Twisted Sister), and John Denver - speak in defense of popular music.
1985 - The Washington Post released a magazine with Tipper Gore's demands:
1. Print lyrics on album covers.
2. Keep explicit covers under the counter.
3. Establish a ratings system for records similar to that for films.
4. Establish a ratings system for concerts.
5. Reassess the contracts of performers who engage in violence and explicit sexual behavior onstage.
6. Establish a citizen and record-company media watch that would pressure broadcasters not to air "questionable-talent."
1985 - Tipper Gore releases 'filthy fifteen', fifteen songs that were given ratings
1989 - The Pennsylvania house passes a bill requiring a warning label on all albums with explicit lyrics. The Pennsylvania legislators place the burden of enforcement (and criminal liability) on the backs of local retailers.
1995-Ten years after the PMRC's creation, the organization's Executive Director, Barbara Wyatt, renews the call for a records ratings system that is similar to the system in place for films and television
1996 - Walmart stops selling CDs that contain content objectionable to listeners.

Otros casos de censura

1936 - a gypsy band's song 'Gloomy Sunday' was banned in Hungary for its links to suicide, and America in 1941.
1936 - Joseph Keller's suicide was blamed on Rezso Seress's 1933 hit, 'Gloomy Sunday'
1951- Radio stations ban Dottie O'Brien's "Four or Five Times" and Dean Martin's "Wham Bam, Thank You Ma'am" fearing they are suggestive.
1958- The Mutual Broadcasting System drops all rock and roll records from its network music programs, calling it "distorted, monotonous, noisy music."
1959- Link Wray's instrumental classic "Rumble" is dropped from radio stations across the country in January - even though it has no lyrics. The title of the song is thought to be suggestive of teenage violence. When Wray appears on American Bandstand to perform the song, Dick Clark introduces Wray and his band, but refuses to mention the song's title.
1965-Cleveland Mayor Ralph Locher bans all rock concerts in the city following a Rolling Stones performance.
1966 - Beatles are banned from the radio in Spain and South Africa after saying "we've become more popular than Jesus Christ."
1970- A group known as the Movement to Restore Democracy calls for the banning of rock music to end the spread of Socialism in America.
1970- Country Joe McDonald is fined $500 for uttering an obscenity during a concert performance of his song "I Feel Like I'm Fixin' To Die Rag.”
1971- In May, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) sends all radio stations telegrams threatening their licenses for playing rock music that glorified drugs.
1976- The RKO radio chain refuses to play Rod Stewart's hit "Tonight's The Night" until the lyric "spread your wings and let me come inside" is edited from the song.
1978- British punk band “The Sex Pistols” was initially denied visas to enter the U.S.A. for their first American tour.
1982- Ozzy Osbourne is forbidden from performing in San Antonio, Texas, after he is arrested for urinating on the Alamo. Osbourne's various legal troubles also prevented him from playing in several other cities, including Boston, Baton Rouge, Corpus Christi, Las Vegas, and Philadelphia and Scranton, Pennsylvania.
1985- In October, President Ronald Reagan insinuates that "reactionary" and "obscene" rock music does not deserve Constitutional protection. Reagan states "I don't believe that our Founding Fathers ever intended to create a nation where the rights of pornographers would take precedence over the rights of parents, and the violent and malevolent would be given free rein to prey upon our children."
1987- A part-time record clerk is arrested in April in Callaway, Florida, for selling a copy of 2 Live Crew's album “2 Live Is What We Are to a fourteen year old boy.”
1990- Missouri legislators introduce a bill in January that forbids the sale of records containing lyrics that are violent, sexually explicit or perverse. Similar measures are introduced in 20 other states.
1990- In March, a Tennessee judge ruled that 2 Live Crew's “Nasty As They Wanna Be” and N.W.A.'s “Straight Outta Compton” are obscene under state law. Anyone arrested for selling the records could face fines from $10,000 to $100,000, depending upon the involvement of minors in the offense.
1990- Following the controversy surrounding 2 Live Crew's obscenity battle in Florida, six states pass legislation declaring the band's album Nasty As They Wanna Be legally obscene. The states are Florida, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Wisconsin.
1992 - Following the controversy surrounding Ice Cube's album Death Certificate, the state of Oregon makes it illegal to display Ice Cube's image in any retail store. The ban even extends to ads for St. Ides Malt Liquor, which uses Ice Cube as a spokesperson.
1992- Wal-Mart and K-Mart refuse to stock Nirvana's second major label album, In Utero, because they object to the cover art and one of the song titles. Shortly after the record becomes the number one selling album in the country, the mass merchandisers strike a deal to carry the album. The album's back cover art is subdued and the title of the offending song is changed from "Rape Me" to "Waif Me."

Uff, largo eh? Sip, pero interesante.

Bueno acá se vienen los extras:

Megadeth - The Decline of Western Civilization part II - The Metal Years







Twisted Sister - We`re not gonna take it





Black Sabbath - Trashed





Audiciencia de Frank Zappa (Hay un par de partes mas, no lo posteo porque es medio aburrido y largo, si les interesa busquen ahí en youtube).





Fuentes:

http://slavetothepc.wordpress.com/2006/08/28/el-pmrc/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parents_Music_Resource_Center
http://crm114.com/algore/tipper.html
http://censorship7.tripod.com/id10.html