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What mtv does exclude is music that s not rock and roll. mtv came out with no consideration on how to infuse black music into their mix. i am just floored by the fact that there are so few black artists featured on it. why is that? we have to try and do what we think not only new york and los angeles will appreciate but some town in the midwest that would be scared to death by prince or a string of other black faces. interesting. okay. thank you very much. when are we going to see anybody of color on mtv, because you said music television. when are you going to start covering all genres of music? whoo! music has no color. and it shouldn t have color. and i don t believe in that. what i do, i don t want it labeled black or white. i want it labeled it s music. [ cheers and applause ] ....
That it may have contributed to a number of teenage suicides. has rock and roll finally gone too far? a growing number of people think so, and today they took their case to a u.s. senate hearing. their complaint? that rock lyrics and videos are crossing the line into trash and smut. we are asking the recording industry to voluntarily assist parents who are concerned by placing a warning label on music products inappropriate for younger children due to explicit sexual or violent lyrics. wild: in the 80s, these artists who were pushing boundaries in different ways were bringing those messages and images into our homes, and that provided political opportunity to push back against it. burnett: we can say they re senators wives ooh! and they re messing around in washington, but they obviously have some real concerns. there s a lot that they do that i applaud because they are taking responsibility as citizens. i brought along two videos which i believe are representative ....
And that was what paved the way for this accidental second british invasion. jennings: if you look at some of the groups on popular charts in america today, you can t help asking, where on earth did they come from? well, the answer is the same today as it was two decades ago. they come from britain. the music isn t anything like the famous group that came from there, the beatles. you got to understand they were 20 years ago. we re a new generation, a new wave. you were working as a waitress in a cocktail bar when i met you connelly: by the early 1980s, new wave is used to describe sleek, dressy cool bands that are coming out of england. don t you want me, baby don t you want me, oh graham: british artists all understood how to use visuals in a way that american artists didn t necessarily get that quickly. do you really want to hurt me? do you really want to make me cry? ....
Of the kind of presentation which caused the furor. got it bad, got it bad, got it bad i m hot for teacher i got it bad so bad roth: who s going to decide what s a sexual content of a lyric? who s going to decide what is obscene same housewives who are spearheading the movement? in all candor i would tell you it s outrageous filth. if i could find some way constitutionally to do away with it, i would. fans felt, i m capable of making my own decisions about the music i want to listen to. i don t need tipper gore deciding that this is too obscene for me. so, the next witness will be mr. frank zappa. zappa: the establishment of a rating system, voluntary or otherwise, opens the door to an endless parade of moral quality-control programs based on things certain christians don t like. i think you should leave it up to the parent, ....
You guys are very hot, yes? [ chuckles ] [ sighs ] 6:00 already, i was just in the middle of a dream majewski: when the bangles came out, everyone was like, oh! it s another go-go s. the bangles were like, unh-unh. we re not the new go-go s, we re the new beatles. but i can t be late cause i guess i ll just. gumbel: lot of people call that a 60s sound. do you think so? that s our main influence. we don t go in and consciously say, let s make this a buffalo springfield song. that seems to be the way the songs end up sounding. just another manic monday oh oh oh i wish it was sunday oh oh oh there s always a certain amount of people who will never take women as a group seriously. man: i mean, it s run by a very chauvinistic, i d imagine, recording industry. hoffs: we concentrated on the music. we don t really worry about those things. we just keep writing songs. i think that there was a little bit of an attitude ....