ONE TINY BLACK AND WHITE sticker. That was what the Parents Music Resource Center eventually won in 1985 — after the congressional hearings about obscenity in pop music, after the back-and-forth about the first amendment and freedom of speech, after the women who founded the PMRC (including Tipper Gore, wife of Al) were attacked as “bored housewives” and authoritarian prudes. Just a little sticker with the words “PARENTAL ADVISORY: EXPLICIT CONTENT”.
The PMRC’s 1980s crusade against lyrical filth looks, retrospectively, like one of the sillier episodes in the culture wars
