Word: explicitly
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...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...
Most heavy metal songs strike one as being about sex, fast cars and power--traditional themes of rock 'n roll, if more explicit--but several groups write lyrics that are among the most thoughtful and compelling in music. Iron Maiden, for instance, have put out songs on such assorted topics as the Crimean War, Coleridge's poetry and the white man's brutal conquest of the American Indian. Maiden write about literature, history and science fiction, but never, ever, about the shopworn topics that saturate contemporary rock music...
Davis also asked the jury not to pass judgmenton his client's sexual mores or on his allegedunwillingness to erase the explicit videotape thecouple had made...
...Monday, the explicit video admitted asevidence in the case was screened for reporters.The first part of the tape shows the allegedvictim and the defendant engaged in sexual acts.The end of the tape shows a sequence in whichWatkins, the alleged victim and another studentturn and disrobe in response to verbalinstructions...
...four-letter standard for comics, and in the '70s Pryor and George Carlin brought it to the masses, where it belonged. Midnight Cowboy, which won an Oscar for best picture of 1969, was rated X, and so were other lauded films, such as Medium Cool, Performance and The Devils. Explicit lyrics have been in the pop mainstream since the late '60s; the Jefferson Airplane sang "Up against the wall, m f s," and they sang it on The Dick Cavett Show...