Has anyone seen the previews to VH-1's upcoming movie, Warning: Parental Advisory? It's about the infamous 80s debate on whether or not to include parental warning labels on LPs and cassettes that contained explicit lyrics. It stars Mariel Hemingway as Holy Crusader Tipper Gore and Twisted Sister's Dee Snider as himself! It premieres on April 21, 9 Eastern. Everybody mark your calendars! :)

I haven't seen any commercials, but I did see it on the VH-1 website. Should be pretty interesting!

Back in the '80s (and now too) those Parental Advisory labels just made kids want to buy the CDs and cassettes even more then before.

Originally posted by Vincent
Back in the '80s (and now too) those Parental Advisory labels just made kids want to buy the CDs and cassettes even more then before.

Isn't that always the case? :) I remember kids seeking out material with the parental advisory label on it to purchase. I guess it's that taste of the supposedly forbidden fruit!!! :)

No, I haven't seen the commercial but Iluvthe80s or VioletFoxx told me about it sometime last week. It sounds like it would be an interesting watch.

Sounds really good. I'll have to remember to watch for it. Hadn't heard anything about before this.

I saw a commericial for this movie - I'll watch it when it airs. Sounds interesting.

Sounds cool. "Holy Crusader tipper gore". :laugh: Too funny. :D

DON'T GET ME STARTED ON TIPPER F---ING GORE!
Parental advisory labels are so CUTE! They look so good on the CD rack!

Originally posted by BrandyBlue
DON'T GET ME STARTED ON TIPPER F---ING GORE!


I see we share the same views on Tipper. :D

I will have to check it out, because I heard a while back on the radio, they were doing some of the filming here in Houston.

Originally posted by BrandyBlue
Parental advisory labels are so CUTE! They look so good on the CD rack!

I hate them when they're right on the covers themselves. I can get rid of the ones that are literally a sticker on the wrapping that you throw away and are done with, but the ones right on the cover, I hate. I bought Megadeth's remaster of "Killing Is My Business..." and being the Canadian version, it says

PARENTAL ADVISORY
Explicit Content
Contentu Explicite
ADVERTISSEMENT AUX PARENTS

it looks stupid. It's like when CDs first came out and the bottom corner of the cover had a "Compact Disc Digital Audio" watermark. And yes, I know I'm probably really weird for caring about such things, but I have an art background and can't help it.

I've seen them advertising about this and I have definately marked my calender. :thumb:

I have not seen any advertising, but I'm definitely going to pay attention. Since I have an eleven yr old son whom I buy "parental advisory" cds for anyway. Let me see what they say I'm doing wrong. Yeah right!

I think many of the CD's marked "Parental Advisory" today are far more graphic and directly explicit than any of the material that was put out in the early-to-mid-80s! I would have been shocked to have heard some of the songs that the kids listen to now when I was a teenager!!! :eek:

Tell me about it, Michael!!:eek:

I would have been horrified if I had been called a "ho" or a "$itch" like that in HS....maybe it's just me. I don't know if I would be able to have stood all of the sex stuff in HS, the way that it's in most of the music. And here I thought G.M.'s "I want your sex" was sooooo provacative!

I am definitly watching this one!!:D

Hey, Gretch! Missed you!!!

I used to think that "I Want Your Sex" was soooo provacative, too! It's a child's nursery rhyme compared to some of the stuff out today!!! :vibrator:

Warning labels encouraged all this vulgarity because now you can't accuse anyone of surprising you.... just slap a label on the cover and you don't have to compromise. Sounds like the opposite of censorship. Strangely enough, Ozzy uses the f-word (in almost every permutation imaginable) almost 50 times on the Black Sabbath live reunion CD yet it doesn't have any label....

The rap is just totally brazen about it now, they just go ahead and make the video even though half of the words are completely "blanked" out.... man, they just don't care.

REMINDER: This premieres today. Should be interesting to watch especially because Dee Snider will be in it.

Thanks Stacy. :)

I've been watching countdowns all weekend long on videos or songs that received a Parental Advisory Warining. Of course, Madonna was number one! Go Madonna! :lol:

Hey guys I just watched it, and I highly recommend it!!! :thumb:

It was freaking hilarious, and it was a great nostalgia trip. Warning: Parental Advisory obviously took the side of the music industry and the teenagers, making Tipper Gore and her cronies look like a bunch of puritanical crazies. Keep in mind, the film took the side of the '80s music and '80s teens. What did everyone think of that? The film was clearly biased, but what are everyone's thoughts? We have 50 years of history dealing with "modern" rock and "modern teenagers", and the film seemed to postulate that things really never change.

I know I myself used to think that anyone like me who grew up in the '80s and '90s would never talk about music getting too obsecene or the teens running wild. But, lo and behold, it has been happenning anyway.

The last scene with the cutaway to present day 2002 and Jason Priestly condeming his present day kids about their vulgar music was an eye opener.

:)

I thought it was pretty good. It was good to see they used Dee Snider. I don't think anyone else could have played his part because he is such a one of a kind. :lol:

Dee Snider: "Listen, anybody says anything bad about John Denver infront of me again, I will KICK their ass!""

:lol:

Dee was great!

It's also the greatest of ironies that a clean cut, wholesome singer such as John Denver, wound up being the music industries greatest ally.

I was able to watch it as well and I really enjoyed it. I thought Mariel gave a good performance as Tipper, but Dee really stole the whole show!!! :D

I thought it was freakin' Hilarious,and only Dee could get away with using the phrase..."Let's rock out with our cock's out"
Classic!!!:D