Science: Psychology of GenX Metalheads

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• Generation X
• Tipper Gore (Al Gore's prude wife)
• Parents Music Resource Center
• Moral panic

What was the PMRC?

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The Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC) was a bipartisan U.S. government committee formed in 1985 [1] with the stated goal of "increasing parental control over children's access to music deemed to have violent, drug-related, or sexual themes."

The committee's work led to the widespread adoption of the Parental Advisory sticker. The PMRC was known for its prejudicial targeting of heavy metal music, which drew opposition and criticism [2].

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On political and religious grounds, the committee was supported by American Protestant televangelists, Reaganites, and the larger Christian evangelical movement, who accused hard rock and heavy metal music of harboring Satanic and occult related themes.

The committee was founded by four women known as the "Washington Wives"—a reference to their husbands' connections with the government power elite in the Washington, D.C. area.

Those female founders of the PMRC are Tipper Gore, wife of Senator and later Vice President Al Gore... More

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