Parental Advisory/Editing

[BillyWitchDoctor.com]

All these cd's are coming out with Perental Advisory stickers on them now because bands tend to not use the most pleasing of words according to parents. And for those cd's, if a kid wants it so bad yet their parents dont approve of it they can buy their kid the Edited version. Personally i think it is all stupid. Not that i am in conflict with this matter, but it just bothers me that companies go over music and edit out words to make it more appropriate. For one, it makes the song sound terrible with random short pauses every so often and also, music is music. it is a cultural ideal that has been around for millions of years and i dont think that peoples creations should be run over and shaped up.and for the Parental Advisory stickers, i dont mind them that much i mean because it is a good way just to show parents that the cd contains some language but i think it is overrated these days and people take it too seriously. But thats just me, what do others think?

[Zevi]

I should have a parental advisory sticker tattooed on my body.
But on topic.... I'm completely indiffrent. I'ts never really had any impact on me.

[BillyWitchDoctor.com]

i probably should too :twisted: but you probably wouldnt see that side of me if u didnt know me. and like i said, it doesnt really impact me, it just bothers me like one more small thing that doesnt do anything but slightly piss you off

[Zevi]

Like the Amish!

[Glasgow]

I don't think there is anything wrong with course language. Kids will learn it, if they don't already know/use such language. Parents are overprotective about their childs safety, but the reality is, kids are gonna learn this shit eventually, so whats so bad about learning about it a little earlier?

[SkaSkankDownParty]

I want to know what ever happened to freedom of speech. It is totally useless to edit lyrics. Everyone knows what they're saying anyway. If a parent was that concerned about what their kid listens to they wouldn't buy them the CD at all. It's just another way for companies to make more money.

[serial-thrilla]

what does that have to do with freedom of speech? if parents dont want theyre children to hear it they dont have to let them. freedom of speech has its limits, if your speech right is threatening someones right to not have to hear what you say then theyre right is more important,

[Webbeardthepirate]

Serial-t, Wuhuh? Right not to be hear is more importnat then the right to speak out. That must be some wacky Canadian varient I'm not familier with. Having been accused of being to USA oriented on the Dane's cartoon thread I'll assume that there is some right in Canada that they don't teach us about in our substandard non french speaking american schools.

National rivlaries aside it is generally accepted that parents are allowed to brainwash their children in accordance with tradition. Its not really logical, but it is tradition, and traditions are important, because without them we wouldn't haul trees into our homes every year, cover them with flashing lights and shiny bits of plastic, and say it's for Baby Jesus. I mean logically it makes no friggen sense at all, but its tradition, so this anual bit of madness is permmited. (Little Jews are reduced to telling all the gentiles they get EIGHT days of presents, even though they are usually socks.)

Well music warnings are just another little tradition. It doesn't need to make sense, its just one of those things, like Uncle Olaf getting drunk and accusing your grandmother of trying to poison him every christmas. Your not really expected to like it, just tolerate it. Its tradition, and if you don't, baby jesus will cry.

Wow, now thats a sarcastic sacroligeous post. Sorry to any one I offended with my lyrics, I mean words. Unless your Swiss. If your Swiss I don't give a crap.

[Ravenous]

Nahh parental advisory is fine. Its good, because it makes the parent aware that there is swearing or whatever on that CD, they might not want their child to be hearing that at a young age. Its just trying to protect young children, I don't see the problem..

[kolte]

there is no problem. people need to quit trippin over every little thing...I mean really, is it that necessary for parents to trip out over music, music companies to trip out over parents trippin out over music. I own a record label, and I do NOT permit my music's lyrics to be altered. SHAME ON YOU'IN'S lol. Meh, pft, psh, yeah, right, in your bra. SOOOOOOO what I'm trying to say here, is I'm hungry, gonna make me some easy mac.....and cheese....yum.....SEE YA.

[Webbeardthepirate]

You have your own music label? That's so exciting like the beatles with Apple. I have been told by all my friends that when it comes to music, especially singing, and I'm not trying to be bragidocious, such crass self promotion is beyond my genel nature, but in the interest of humble honesty, I must admit that I have been told by persons whose judgement I respect and appreciate, that I am a really really crap singer.

So as I understand it, like game ratings the parental advisory stickers are volentary. Places like WalMart and Best buy require that albums be subjected to review and given the correct advisory label, and in Wal Mart's case this can lead to being excluded from their shelves. A bigdeal if your target is Wal Mart Shoppers, who use that sort of language all the time.

Now you should ask yourself, who is to blame. Its fucking Al Gore's wife Tipper. She founded the organization that made a fuss. She got the threat of government mandated standards going to threaten the industry. Under the interstate commerce clasue the congress could regulate it, and then the Supreem Court would have to decide what level of protection recordings should be given. It would have been messy and expensive, so the industry rolled. And it is all Tipper Gore's fault.

I have noticed that democrats, when ever they feel like they are looking soft on so called "family values" because they ARE soft on everything defined as a "family value" by those who actually hold those values, that they turn to censorship. Democrats love censorship, its bizzare. Speech codes, limitiations on campaign spending, limits on movies, music and video games. They really are more properly called Progressives rather then liberals. John Locke and Benjamin Franklin, who helped found the original Liberalism, would be horrified by the positions Democrats take on important issues.

I need to learn to write sentances with fewer clauses. I'm getting down right bombastic.

[Just...Will]

I get around it by having my parents let me buy it on iTunes but not telling them about the parental advisory part. Hehe...

[Glasgow]

I get around it by having my parents let me buy it on iTunes but not telling them about the parental advisory part. Hehe...

Lol, my parents don't even know what I listen to, because I dont buy music anymore.

[kolte]

I get around it by having my parents let me buy it on iTunes but not telling them about the parental advisory part. Hehe...

Lol, my parents don't even know what I listen to, because I dont buy music anymore.

its people like you that will put me out of business :P i download music too, but I really like to get it from I Tunes when i have the cash, its not right to me otherwise. the more people pirate music, the more my record label is bound to suffer, die, and burn. Oh, and by the way....while I'm on the subject, I'm expecting Ryan S. to pop the question about a contract with SpotOfColour and huzzah, we will make an album with my makeshift recording studio, and then huzzah, take a small personal loan from the CU and huzzah, lease some time at a local recoring studio, and huzzah, break a deal with I Tunes, and distributers, and see If i cant land a local seller, and maybe a state, or national distributer.....so, when the time comes, BUY MY F*CKING CD'S lol......*flees*