Parental advisory
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[Advertising] [ploy] [aimed] at children and young adults
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A [logo] [added] cover [artwork] that warns kids not to listen to this music with their parents.
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A censorship sticker, very much like [the Seal] of Approval that comic books were made to have well into the 70s. It warns parents of possible material that may be considered obcene without any specific details about what is objectionable.
Perpetrated by a censorship lobby consisting of upper middle class conservative white women, such as [Tipper] [Gor], who felt it necessary to police the music industry for messages that were politically or socially inconsistent with their own. This label dampens sales which in turn hampers musical, lyrical, or artistically creativite material.
At its inception the [parental advisory] sticker targeted mainly such musicians as Frank Zappa but today the target is hip-hop and rappers along with video game creators -
a [sticker] that kids think is [so cool] to [have on] their albums. (just listen to music you smacktards!)
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