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Are The "parental Advisory" Gods Fickle?

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Is it just me or does it seem like when those "Parental Advisory Explicit Content" stickers are given, whoever assigns them is pretty inconsistent. The album "Beautiful Freak" by Eels has such a sticker, because the word "fuck" occurs in there twice. The Rammstein DVD "Lichtspielhaus" has such a label because one of the band members says the word "bullshit" in one of the interviews. Whereas an album like "Good News For People Who Love Bad News" by Modest Mouse doesn't seem to have one in any of the stores I've seen it at. Sure the chorus to the song "Black Cadillacs" is something like "and we were done, done, done with all the fuck, fuck, fucking around" and the "The View" which says "And if it takes shit to make bliss, then I feel pretty blissfully, or "Bukowski" : "Who would wanna be, yeah who would wanna be such an asshole?" Now sure I think Modest Mouse is pretty awesome, just observing that the explicit content label people don't seem to have any standards for deciding what's explicit and what isn't.

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My Chemical Romance say "i'm not o-fucking-kay" to earn theirs.

 

Story of the Year anyone? Paige Avenue's most foul lyric: "Until the day i die, i'll spill my heart for you."

 

 

It's 100% marketing. If someone thinks a PA will work to their advantage, it's got one.

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I dunno, I think in many cases such a label poses a disadvantage because supposedly they aren't supposed to sell it to you if you're under 17. Since it's a very significant group of people who are 16 and under that buy CD's, it could cost some sales I would think.

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virgin records wanted to put an advisory on a perfect circle's first album because it said fuck once. it's also lyrical content, not just swearing.

 

marilyn manson's antichrist superstar does not have a parental advisory on its cover. i think all albums should be measured based on that.

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I think the PA stickers do have an effect, because a lot of kids have to get the okay from their parents before they can buy CD's, and we all know how pretentious parents can be when it comes to their little angels coming into contact with the real world.

 

P.S. Christy - getting carded buying a CD? Is that even legal?

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whose parents actually bought them CD's based on such an advisory in the first place??

 

it seems like a dumb thing to have... i mean, when you're 8 or 9 and can't buy your own CDs, i can't really see a parent introducing their child to marilyn manson at that age, regardless of what they're advised to do by some white people in a room with no windows...

 

when you're 11 or 12 (or younger), thats when the adventures (sans parents) to the mall start... so you end up buying your own CDs with your allowance, and don't really care about what mom and pop say... so it is as if the parental advisory that comes on CDs falls on deaf ears... all it does is ruin the cover.

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i have no idea, it only happened that one time

she said that they were supposed to ask, so maybe it was

company policy or something gay like that

Well some stores (such as Wal-Mart) make it company policy to generally not even carry CD's or music DVD's with the PA label at all.

 

Strangely enough, Wal-Mart does carry "Good News..."

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whose parents actually bought them CD's based on such an advisory in the first place??

 

it seems like a dumb thing to have... i mean, when you're 8 or 9 and can't buy your own CDs, i can't really see a parent introducing their child to marilyn manson at that age, regardless of what they're advised to do by some white people in a room with no windows...

 

when you're 11 or 12 (or younger), thats when the adventures (sans parents) to the mall start... so you end up buying your own CDs with your allowance, and don't really care about what mom and pop say... so it is as if the parental advisory that comes on CDs falls on deaf ears... all it does is ruin the cover.

Woah... you went to the mall at 11?

 

You had an allowance?

 

Man, am I ever out of the loop with the times.

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Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. But when I was 12, I really had no need for CDs. I just taped stuff off the radio with blank tapes. If a song was on the radio, that was good enough for me.

I didn't even listen to music at twelve.

 

Well, actually, I did get a copy of "Big Shiny Tunes 4" for that Blink 182 song on it (even though I'm embarassed to admit it) but it did have Hello Time Bomb on it so about 5 years after I had bought it I rediscovered that CD and listened to Hello Time Bomb and here we are today!

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you didn't listen to music when you were twelve? damn.

 

i was making up words to duran duran songs when i was 5...

 

true story.

And after that, I started listening to radio. And that wasn't cool at all.

 

But soon after I discovered Hello Time Bomb, Avalanche came out, and it changed my life.

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marilyn manson's antichrist superstar does not have a parental advisory on its cover. i think all albums should be measured based on that.

i just bought that cd a little bit ago, and it does have a PA.

not on the cover itself. i bought it like 9 years ago

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marilyn manson's antichrist superstar does not have a parental advisory on its cover. i think all albums should be measured based on that.

i just bought that cd a little bit ago, and it does have a PA.

not on the cover itself. i bought it like 9 years ago

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maybe it was different back then

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i got carded once when i was 12 trying to buy a korn cd. but i went somewhere else and bought it. but, i have to agree, some cds have the warning on it when it shouldn't (foo fighters: in you honor shouldn't because there is no swearing) where as some cds need them

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