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When Labels Go Wrong!

Hugo Roy
September 08, 2012
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When Labels Go Wrong!

A brief history of the label "Parental Advisory Explicit Content". About censorship, the effect of music on people and society and the general context of the American society and politics of the mid 80s and how it relates to our days and the Internet.
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Hugo Roy

September 08, 2012
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  1. When labels for consumer
    information go WRONG!
    Unhost, September 8, 2012
    Hugo Roy, [email protected]

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  5. The Washington Wives
    ● Tipper Gore, Al Gore's
    wife (you know, the
    guy who invented the
    Internet)
    Parents Music Resource
    Center (PMRC)

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  6. Prince, him again!
    Darling Nikki
    1984 Purple Rain

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  7. "I knew a girl named Nikki
    I guess you could say she was a sex fiend
    I met her in a hotel lobby
    Masturbating with a magazine"

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  8. Censorship?

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  9. No!

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  10. “Consumer information”
    Responsibility of the music industry

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  11. Recording Industry Association of
    America

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  12. Parental advisory
    or
    not

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  19. 1977

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  20. CD reissue

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  21. Track 8: “F... you”

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  22. Track 8: “F... you”

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  23. Ooops!! We forgot this one.
    Re-release.

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  24. The effect of Music on the mind of
    young people
    The war on “porn rock” – an older version of the
    current war on the Internet

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  25. A few conclusion about ToS;DR
    Leave governments out of it
    It is not the “responsibility of the industry” (i.e.
    self-regulation)

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  26. “Social Impact of Music Violence”
    US Senate Committee

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