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The document includes allegations linking rock lyrics to issues such as violence, sex, drug use, and even teen suicide, while psychologists and rock fans argue there is no evidence of mental corruption.",{"@graph":14,"@context":72},[15,34,55],{"@type":16,"itemListElement":17},"BreadcrumbList",[18,23,27,31],{"item":19,"name":20,"@type":21,"position":22},"https://docshare.wps.com","Home","ListItem",1,{"item":24,"name":25,"@type":21,"position":26},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/","Document",2,{"item":28,"name":29,"@type":21,"position":30},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/healthcare/","Healthcare",3,{"item":32,"name":10,"@type":21,"position":33},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/heavy-metal-rock-is-it-harmful-to-kids/444029/",4,{"url":32,"name":10,"@type":35,"image":36,"author":41,"headline":10,"publisher":44,"fileFormat":47,"inLanguage":8,"description":12,"dateModified":48,"datePublished":49,"encodingFormat":47,"isAccessibleForFree":50,"interactionStatistic":51},"DigitalDocument",{"url":37,"@type":38,"width":39,"height":40},"https://docshare.wps.com/thumbnails/heavy-metal-rock-is-it-harmful-to-kids/444029.png","ImageObject",300,407,{"name":42,"@type":43},"Danger Angel","Person",{"url":19,"name":45,"@type":46},"DocShare","Organization","application/pdf","2026-10-01","2026-09-29",true,{"@type":52,"interactionType":53,"userInteractionCount":26},"InteractionCounter",{"@type":54},"ViewAction",{"@type":56,"mainEntity":57},"FAQPage",[58,64,68],{"name":59,"@type":60,"acceptedAnswer":61},"What is the PMRC and what did it want record companies and broadcasters to do?","Question",{"text":62,"@type":63},"The PMRC, formed in 1985, pressured record companies to add explicit-lyrics parent advisory warnings or print objectionable lyrics on album covers, and later asked for music-video ratings based on sex and violence content.","Answer",{"name":65,"@type":60,"acceptedAnswer":66},"What charges do critics make against heavy metal music?",{"text":67,"@type":63},"Critics accuse heavy metal groups of glorifying sex, drugs, and violence, and they cite worries that young listeners may be affected by lyrics about suicide, drugs, and death.",{"name":69,"@type":60,"acceptedAnswer":70},"How do defenders of heavy metal respond to the harm claims and censorship concerns?",{"text":71,"@type":63},"Defenders argue that most musicians do not glorify harmful behavior, and they say studies have not found effects on children. Tipper Gore also rejects government censorship, emphasizing public pressure on the entertainment industry.","https://schema.org",{"og:url":32,"og:type":74,"og:title":10,"og:site_name":45,"og:description":12},"article",{"robots":76,"canonical":32},"index,follow",{"doc_id":78,"site_id":7},444029,1790820034,{"code":4,"msg":81,"data":82},"success",[83,87,91,95,100,105,109,114,119,122,126],{"id":22,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":84,"show_sort_weight":85,"slug":86},"Story & Novel",90,"story-novel",{"id":26,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":88,"show_sort_weight":89,"slug":90},"Literature",80,"literature",{"id":33,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":92,"show_sort_weight":93,"slug":94},"Exam",70,"exam",{"id":96,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":97,"show_sort_weight":98,"slug":99},5,"Comic",60,"comic",{"id":101,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":102,"show_sort_weight":103,"slug":104},6,"Technology",50,"technology",{"id":106,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":29,"show_sort_weight":107,"slug":108},7,40,"healthcare",{"id":110,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":111,"show_sort_weight":112,"slug":113},8,"Research & Report",30,"research-report",{"id":115,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":116,"show_sort_weight":117,"slug":118},9,"Religion & Spirituality",20,"religion-spirituality",{"id":117,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":120,"show_sort_weight":117,"slug":121},"World Cup","world-cup",{"id":123,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":124,"show_sort_weight":123,"slug":125},10,"Lifestyle","lifestyle",{"id":127,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":128,"show_sort_weight":96,"slug":129},19,"General","general",{"code":4,"msg":81,"data":131},{"doc_id":78,"user_id":132,"nickname":42,"user_avatar":133,"doc_module":4,"category_id":106,"category_name":29,"doc_title":10,"doc_description":12,"doc_content":134,"file_id":135,"file_url":136,"file_type":137,"file_size":138,"view_count":26,"is_deleted":4,"is_public":22,"is_downloadable":22,"audit_status":22,"page_count":139,"language":140,"language_code":8,"site_id":7,"html_lang":8,"table_of_contents":141,"faqs":142,"seo_title":143,"seo_description":12,"update_tm":144,"read_time":145},962090769052,"https://ap-avatar.wpscdn.com/davatar_9964176cb1d06d4a9deccf72a44ae3dc","# Heavy Metal Rock:Is It Harmfulto Kids?\n\nOne of the singers in the heavy metal rock band Motley Crüe.  \nTo some people it's“slime.\"To oth-ers it is\"the work of the devil.\"To stillothers it is“a poisonous snake”stran-gling our youth.  \non records or see it on music videos,mightbe harmed by it.  \nThe best-known group opposed to let-ting young children listen to such musicis the Parent's Music Resource Center(PMRC).PMRC was formed in 1985 bya group of women in Washington,D.C.,headed by “Tipper”Gore,the wife ofpresidential candidate Albert Gore.  \nThese critics are not talking aboutdrugs,or AIDS,or crime,but rock mu-sic—particularly the type of rock called“heavy metal.”A growing number ofcritics accuse such heavy metal groupsas Mötley Crüe,Ratt,Poison,and TwistedSister of glorifying sex,drugs,and vio-lence.And they worry that the millionsof young kids who listen to such music  \nMrs.Gore became concerned aboutrock lyrics after buying an album for her12-year-old daughter.She was shockedafter hearing one of the songs on the al-  \nrent Eoents  \nbum.She and her friends then listenedto a number of other popular rock songsand felt that many of them seemed to ad-vocate violence,drug use,and sex.  \nOthers have leveledeven more seriouscharges against rock.The National Ed-ucation Association(NEA)estimates thata number of the 5,000 teen suicides eachyear may be linked to depression broughton in part by rock lyrics about suicide,drugs,and death.  \nIn California,the parents of a dis-turbed 19-year-old boy who shot himselfsued heavy metal singer-songwriter OzzyOsbourne.The parents claimed that anOsbourne song about suicide helped pushtheir son over the edge.The parents saythey didn't sue to get money but to attackharmful rock lyrics about sex,death,sui-cide,and drugs.Osbourne says the par-ent have“grossly misinterpreted”hissong,which was really against suicide.  \nR-Rated Rock?  \nSince its formation,PMRC has joinedwith other groups such as the PTA topressure record companies to either puta warning(\"Explicit Lyrics—ParentAdvisory”)or print the words of possi-ble objectionable lyrics on album cov-ers.So far,about 20 record companieshave agreed to PMRC's request.  \n—Debra TrebitzL81  \nMore recently,PMRC has expanded itsefforts to include music videos.The groupsponsored a conference in October withU.S.Surgeon General,Dr.C.EverettKoop.  \nDr.Koop told the conference that manyvideos “are a combination of senselessviolence and senseless pornography to thebeat of rock music.\"  \nPMRC wants MTV,the music cablecompany,to rate its videos based on theamount of sex and violence they containso parents can better know what their  \nContinued on Next Page  \nchildren are watching.The group alsowants the cable company to put rock vid-eos with objectionable material on late atnight so that young teens and childrenwould be less likely to see them.MTVofficials,however,have not agreed to ei-ther of PMRC's requests.  \n## Rock Defenders Speak Up\n\nMost people agree that PMRC and oth-ers have brought serious charges againstrock music.And this has angered manyrock fans.They simply don't believe thatrock is the harmful force its critics be-lieve it to be.Rock's defenders point outthat the vast majority of today's rockmusicians do not glorify drugs or vio-lence.And for the small minority thatdo,they argue,there is absolutely no ev-idence that their lyrics are twisting andcorrupting the mind of young people.Most teens,they say,hear only the beat,  \nis for music companies to let parents knowwhat kind of material their kids are buy-ing and listening to.  \nnot the words.  \n“A lot of people have studied rock lyr-ics,\"says Dr.Roger Desmond,a psy-chologist who specializes in children andthe media,“and they haven't been ableto find any effects at all...In one study,it was found that if you ask a high schoolstudent to tell you the story of his favor-ite song,he can't.What they're listeningto is the beat....\"  \n\"We don't believe in censorship,\"saysTipper Gore.“We remain outraged thatvio","cbCaisa61JMKcKGC","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaisa61JMKcKGC","pdf",2964131,13,"English","# Heavy Metal Rock: Is It Harmful to Kids?\n## Rock Defenders Speak Up\n## How the Public Feels","[{\"question\":\"What is the PMRC and what did it want record companies and broadcasters to do?\",\"answer\":\"The PMRC, formed in 1985, pressured record companies to add explicit-lyrics parent advisory warnings or print objectionable lyrics on album covers, and later asked for music-video ratings based on sex and violence content.\"},{\"question\":\"What charges do critics make against heavy metal music?\",\"answer\":\"Critics accuse heavy metal groups of glorifying sex, drugs, and violence, and they cite worries that young listeners may be affected by lyrics about suicide, drugs, and death.\"},{\"question\":\"How do defenders of heavy metal respond to the harm claims and censorship concerns?\",\"answer\":\"Defenders argue that most musicians do not glorify harmful behavior, and they say studies have not found effects on children. Tipper Gore also rejects government censorship, emphasizing public pressure on the entertainment industry.\"}]","Heavy Metal Rock - Is It Harmful to Kids? | PDF",1790706550,33]