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- BUSINESS, Page 69Business NotesENTERTAINMENTWarning: Rock Music Ahead
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- A bold black-and-white label will begin appearing by July
- on many musical recordings sold in the U.S. Its message:
- PARENTAL ADVISORY -- EXPLICIT LYRICS. Last week the recording
- industry unveiled the uniform marking in an attempt to fend off
- bills in five state legislatures that would require labels on
- recordings that contain explicit lyrics dealing with sex,
- violence, suicide, drug use, bigotry and satanism. Under the
- industry's program, the decision to put the standardized label
- on a new release would be made by the record company and the
- artists rather than by government officials.
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- The Parents' Music Resource Center, which has crusaded
- against explicit lyrics, applauded the move. Local politicians
- were less pleased. "This plan doesn't even touch most of the
- music we're talking about," says Missouri legislator Jean
- Dixon. She points out that the trade group promoting the
- voluntary label, the Recording Industry Association of America,
- does not represent many of the companies that produce the most
- offensive albums.
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