music Warning label question

[Midnight Dragon 264]

Oftentimes, when an album has extreme swearing and other adult content, it gets that "parental advisory" warning label.

But what if an album has no swearing or sexual content? Can it still get a warning label?

[Malinter 3,064]

I'd say yeah because sometimes the nature of the songs on the album may be offensive to some even if its got no cursing or anything adult.

[SCS 7,537]

A parental advisory label is not limited to albums with swearing and sexual content. It is also applied to albums with violent lyrics. I don't know for sure, but it may also be applied to albums with excessive lyrics involving drugs as well. Some albums with particularly extreme forms of any manner of adult content are given a warning label in addition to the standard parental advisory one.

 

Generally, it's safe to say that albums marked that way should be considered R-rated and parents should exercise extreme discretion in allowing or not allowing their kids to listen to them. Personally, I don't think albums that are just marked that way for swearing are that big of a deal, but I do have a problem with albums containing misogyny, extreme violence, racism, hate speech, and so on. One album could be marked with the parental advisory label just because it has a few F-bombs in it, and be, in my opinion, relatively harmless. Another album could carry the same label but have songs depicting cruelty, violence, racism, misogyny, and so on, yet carry the same label. In my opinion, this is the major flaw with the parental advisory label system for musical albums.

 

That being said, I've found that, personally, I had far more interest in albums labelled as such when I was under 17 than I am now. I prefer albums that do not contain explicit content.

[The Peculiar Derp 193]

Yeah, because it might have hidden innuendo and drug references in it. 

[Scootalove 10,689]

Yes, it would still get a warning label even in one of those circumstances. It really depends, though.