Censorship in the music business - (PMRC 25 years, Walmart US)

Interviews with artists: James Hetfield, Dee Snider, Scott Ian, Flo Rida, Akon. Talking about censorship in the music business before and now. The PMRC in the 80's, and the Walmart-stores now. The situation now is that Walmart sells more than 80% of the CD's sold in the USA, but they refuse to sell CD's with the "Parental advisory"-label. This makes some artists alter their lyrics, so that they can sell their products in Walmart-stores.
The interviews are in English and the commentaries are in Norwegian. From the Norwegian TV-show "Lydverket" at NRK, 2009.

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[jimmyandzach]

@ldrsquad true, but if you look at different patterns, and news of polititians banning various items for "safety" reasons are people of the left. Theres a reason all of the founding members of the PMRC are liberal. Its their philosiphy. They believe in government having more power over people, trying to protect us from basicly ourselves. Look at san fransisco, they are the HQ for ban happy busybodies, and its purely a liberal city. its true that conservatives do liberal stuff, but this isnt one.

[SnakesBlues]

Do you hear what I hear?

Doors are slamming shut

Limit your imagination, keep you where they must

Do you feel what I feel?

Bittering distress

Who decides what you express?

Do you take what I take?

Endurance is the word

Moving back instead of forward seems to me absurd

[HispanicMetalhead15]

Its not the artist responsibility to be a good role model god damit

[chidebiolaful]

since then music lyrical content especially in hip hop has gotten worse.

[chidebiolaful]

i think those brainwashed christain group were so right after all i mean look at videos smh!look at the guys complaining

[TheWho58]

Lol whats the point, the kids are just gonna learn all those swears at school. Thats where I learned all my swears.

[XXSUICIDEXX666]

wow can't believe meetallica used to do shit like that look at them now

[pizzadeliveryguy1984]

scott ian said tit lol

[jimmymcclukcluk]

@jacobladders I'm afraid you misunderstood me. I was speaking out against individuals who were censoring themselves, which is precisely what the PMRC aims to do. I was enticing individuals to take a stand and say what they really mean without holding back. Once more, I boldly state: FUCK THE PMRC!

[ACEFREHLEYFREEK13]

Who can name all the metal songs.

[yootesa1515]

@TheMattTrivium those 9 of 10 people in your class dont listen to real hip hop with emotion they listen to the hits, you like metal dont you ? imagin a world where someone would say metal suck becuase of limp biscot green day and blink 182.. there are plenty of hip hop artists that will blow your mind dude. and why does it matter if the music suppresses woman ? every woman gets suppessed by a man and every man gets suppresses by a woman its poetry .