Are Parental Advisory Labels Still Impacting The Music Industry Like They Used To?

Introduction Should CDs carry warning labels about bad language? CDs first started carrying warning

labels in 1985. This originated from concerned and utterly troubled parents. So as the Recording

Industry Association of America (RIAA)wanted to take full responsibility they put into effect

PAL or the Parental Advisory Label. Then soon the 1990s would be thriving with the Parental

Advisory Label or Warning Label and parents would be loving it. Soon kids all around America

would be getting CDs based on the Parental Advisory Label. Today we find a different verdict

because

Let’s be honest, shouldn’t parents be more

responsible? You shouldn’t need a sticker to tell you what your kid can and cannot listen to.

Are these parents trying to blame everyone else for their lack of parenting? Now we’re back to

the question at hand, should CDs carry warning labels about bad language? Absolutely Not!!

Are Parental Advisory Labels Still Impacting The Music Industry Like They Used To?

Are Parental Advisory Labels still impacting the music industry? No, and here's why. What

parents would likely consider inappropriate or unfit in the 1990s is socially acceptable and

normalized in today’s time. The music industry has changed drastically over the years causing

people to drift from the old ways of the music industry. Now instead of going to the record store

everything can be bought or streamed digitally at any time anywhere. Sure parents can still try to

regulate what their son or daughter can listen to but, the times we’re in now music is easily

accessible to anyone. The Parental Advisory Label was once a staple in the music industry but,

Now it’s hard to believe that it plays hardly any part in what kids listen to today.

Inappropriate Music Will Always Be

Albums of

Today's time still stream with a vast majority of those streams being youth. So did the PAL

really stop minors from pursuing inappropriate music?

A Parent’s Responsibility

The Parental Advisory Label was the product of a group of parents in 1985 concerned about

the explicit language in different songs but, this leaves many people with the question..Can a

simple warning label sticker prevent minors from listening to explicit songs? Parents are

expecting a warning label to do their job as a parent. Newsleek quoted a father of two by the

name of Michael Anes he stated “I think the desire to control what your kids see and hear is a

tacit admission of your own failure as a parent.” Although the Recording Industry Association of

America did what they felt they could, parents still need to take accountability for their kids

listening to explicit music. There is only so much someone else can do regarding your kid that

may or may not make a difference. It isn’t the artist who needs to censor their lyrics. It isn’t the

recording industry who needs to add warning labels. It’s the parents who need to