Tipper Gore vs. Heavy Metal: The Case Against "Porn Rock"
You're Wrong About
Sarah Marshall
4.6 • 23K Ratings
🗓️ 8 February 2021
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Mike tells Sarah how a congressional wife started a moral crusade. Digressions include Sheena Easton, Satanic rhymes and teen homicide statistics. Ozzy Osbourne's bat story is recounted in full.
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Links!
- Save the Children: The Parents’ Music Resource Center and Media Activism
- Everything you need to know about Ozzy Osbourne biting the head off a bat in Des Moines
- Highway to Hell: Laws, Lawsuits, and Moral Panic over Heavy Metal Music,
- The Emergence of Youth Suicide: An Epidemiologic Analysis and Public Health Perspective
- The Role of Gun Supply in 1980s and 1990s Youth Violence
- The Parents’ Music Resource Center: From Information to Censorship
- Parental Advisory – Explicit Content: The Parents Music Resource Center, Conservative Music Censorship, and the Protection of Children
- Andrew Hartman’s A War for the Soul of America: A History of the Culture Wars
- Trends in Premarital Sex in the United States, 1954–2003
- 'I'd Sell You Suicide': Pop Music and Moral Panic in the Age of Marilyn Manson
- A Comparative Historical Analysis of Post-war Moral Panics and the Construction of Youth from 1938 to 2010
- “Children Having Children,” the 1985 moral panic article in Time
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The internet is like a pipe full of soup. |
| 0:17.2 | Welcome to You Wrong About where we learn about the whole story behind the VH1 countdown. |
| 0:23.6 | Oh! |
| 0:24.9 | The behind the music of the behind the music. |
| 0:27.1 | Totally. |
| 0:28.0 | I am Michael Hobbs. I'm a reporter for The Huffington Post. |
| 0:30.1 | I'm Sarah Marshall. I'm working on a book about the Satanic Panic. |
| 0:33.2 | And if you'd like to support the show, we're on Patreon at patreon.com slash |
| 0:36.9 | you're wrong about. And we sell cute t-shirts and mugs and face masks. |
| 0:41.2 | And there's other ways that you can support us and we'll have links in the description. |
| 0:44.9 | And maybe someday I'll troll everybody and write a vegan cookbook called |
| 0:48.9 | The Satanic Panic and we'll sell that to you. |
| 0:51.7 | Oh my god. |
| 0:52.5 | Man. |
| 0:53.6 | It's pretty good, Mike. |
| 0:54.4 | And today we are talking about Tipper Gore versus porn rock. |
| 0:59.2 | I'm so excited about this. You have no idea. |
| 1:02.6 | Dude, you have some idea because I think that you're like you're bursting |
| 1:06.5 | with Tipper Gore gossip at this point. |
| 1:08.5 | 100%. |
| 1:09.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:09.7 | This is like our favorite kind of episode because it is the lowest imaginable stakes. |
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