Music Censorship

First of all, the main weak point in the “parental-advisory” system is the ratings. “RIAA labeling is self-rated by the producers of the album and not a third party,” (Holland 5) which means different albums are held to different standards. This leads to kids being able to access albums with explicit content on it just because the producers didn’t find it offensive. The main question record companies ask is “‘Is there anything on here that …showed first 75 words of 474 total…

…showed last 75 words of 474 total…as MP3’s for free. After conducting numerous searches I discovered clean versions of songs are extremely difficult to come across online. In fact, I found no clean versions of Eminem’s smash hit “The Real Slim Shady” or his very graphic depiction of an over obsessed fan killing himself entitled “Stan.” Even if parents wished to download a few clean songs for their child to listen to while sitting at their computer it would