In this episode we discuss The Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC), government censorship, and how the impact of a labeling system impacts artists.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parents_Music_Resource_Center

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/pmrcs-filthy-15-where-are-they-now-60601/

https://gotamillionrhymes.wordpress.com/2021/05/07/parents-just-dont-understand-the-pmrc-vs-the-filthy-fifteen/

https://www.newsweek.com/2015/10/09/oral-history-tipper-gores-war-explicit-rock-lyrics-dee-snider-373103.html

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/popular-music/article/abs/parents-music-resource-center-from-information-to-censorship/70A3C8018DC199B0D065E2BD566C354A

https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/prince/letspretendweremarried.html

https://www.businessinsider.com/35-years-pmrc-rock-lyrics-senate-tipper-gore-frank-zappa-2020-9

https://www.nytimes.com/1985/09/20/arts/hearing-on-rock-lyrics.html

https://www.americanyawp.com/reader/29-the-triumph-of-the-right/statements-from-the-parents-music-resource-center-1985/

https://dirkdeklein.net/2016/03/05/eighties-music-censorship/

https://www.spiked-online.com/2012/02/13/theres-more-to-hip-hop-than-the-n-word/