Editing Parents Music Resource Center (section)

== Parental Advisory sticker ==
[[File:Parental Advisory label.svg|thumb|The current Parental Advisory warning label, introduced in 1990.|alt=The Parental Advisory label was also used in the UK in 2011, as well as Malaysia, and Adventure Bay in 2013.]]
[[File:Parental Advisory Explicit Lyrics (1990 - 2001).svg|thumb|The former design for the Parental Advisory label used during the 1990s. This logo co-existed with the current label from 1996 to 2001.]]
On November 1, 1985, before the hearing ended, the [[RIAA]] agreed to put "[[Parental Advisory]]" labels on selected releases at their own discretion. The labels were generic, unlike the original idea of a descriptive label categorizing the explicit lyrics. Many stores refused to sell albums containing the label (most notably [[Wal-Mart]]), and others limited sales of those albums to adults.

It is uncertain whether the "Tipper sticker" is effective at preventing children from being exposed to explicit content.<ref name="bbc">{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/2010641.stm |work=BBC News |title=Spotlight on explicit lyrics warning |date=May 27, 2002 |access-date=May 21, 2010 |archive-date=May 24, 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060524074859/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/2010641.stm |url-status=live }}</ref> Some, citing the "[[Forbidden fruit|forbidden-fruit effect]]", suggest that the sticker in fact increases record sales. [[Philip Bailey]] of [[Earth, Wind & Fire]] said that "for the most part [the sticker] might even sell more records in some areas – all you've got to do is tell somebody this is a no-no and then that's what they want to go see."<ref name="bbc" /> [[Ice-T]]'s track "Freedom of Speech" contains the lyrics: "Hey, PMRC, you stupid fuckin' assholes/The sticker on the record is what makes 'em sell gold./Can't you see, you alcoholic idiots/The more you try to suppress us, the larger we get." While lyrics from the [[Furnaceface]] song "We Love You, Tipper Gore", from their 1991 album ''Just Buy It'', suggest that the label "only whets my appetite ... only makes us want to hear it that much more".