BPI works out how to put PG stickers on downloads The BPI has invoked the spirit of Tipper Gore in its effort to warn parents and kids when downloads might be offensive to young ears and eyes. The BPI said its Parental Advisory Scheme "will stipulate that UK digital music retailers and streaming services should clearly display the internationally recognised Parental Advisory …
"... the sticker on anything remotely naughty began in the states in the mid-80s, when Tipper Gore and the Parental Music Resource Centre realised what some of those rappers and heavy metallers were actually going on about."
The 60s songs about acid trips and the 70s punk songs about how the older generation had screwed up the whole world for all children everywhere, having passed by unnoticed because at that time Tipper and her friends *were* the children at risk. Meanwhile, prancing about pretending to be a semi-naked X-Factor contestant has entered the school curriculum as part of PE.
surely these days it is far quicker, easier and cheaper to put 'no explicit content' onto tracks which are safe for little ears.
It seems to me that of all the crap music released these days only a minority has no swearing or explicit lyrics...
But hey, I'm a grumpy old man now with two little girls :)
As a dopey metalhead of 15 years old, around the time Mrs Gore decided these little stickers would protect me from these nasty musical influences trying to encourage me to think for myself, my mates and I would often scour the record shelves looking for the latest releases and generally buying the ones WITH the sticker on! I believe a lot of bands would deliberately put some mindless crap on an album just to get a sticker slapped on their latest, as they knew the sticker would bump up the albums sales, especially to minors!
"Streamed Explicit Content" logo on t-shirt, sold on eBay, in 3...2...1...
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