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Growing up, my parents weren't super picky about the music I listened to as I got older.
When I was in elementary school, I was not allowed to listen to Push It by Salt and Pepa. And I was not allowed to dress like TLC.
As I got older, Around 12 or so, I could listen whatever. The only real rule was that no songs with bad language could be played (audibly) if the grandparents were visiting. Otherwise, mostly anything was OK. Generally speaking, my parents had no problems with any of my choices.
Tonight, on my way home, this song came on the radio.
And it reminded me of a high school memory, when I asked my mom if I could go to their concert (at the height of their popularity, I think they had one more song).
My mom said "heck no!"
Even though it was at an 21 and under club (I believe I was 17 at the time). A couple weeks later she did allow me to see the Backstreet Boys (this was way before they were popular in the US) at the same place. And SWV. But no H-town! She never did explain why.
How about your parents? What were you not allowed to listen to?
I can't say "forbid" but I vividly remember getting a whole lot of crap for this one. I moved out shortly thereafter, like a day or 2.
They came home a little early and this song was cranked up:
Nothing, although I remember being deathly afraid my parents would take away my copy of "Timothy" by the Buoys because of the line "hungry as hell, no food to eat". I was 9 or 10 at the time, and was still discovering which envelopes I could push and which ones I couldn't. There were a few songs I kept the volume down on, just in case.
But to them, it was all "noise". I doubt they even tried to listen to the lyrics, especially my mom, who hated rock 'n' roll.
Hmmm...... Yeah...... My parents had a particular dislike for the Liscensed to Ill album from the Beastie Boys in 1986 when I was in 6th grade. They weren't too fond of those killer beats. Can't for the life of me imagine why.......
I only really had one song my mother hated me listening to and that was a Soulfly song at about 2003. Othrwise, my parents never really caught what I listened to. Though I surprised my mom by getting a Marilyn Manson greatest hits once...
I was never told I couldn't listen to something, but as a teen I hung album covers all around my room and my mom had a problem with Led Zeppelins Houses of the Holy album cover, and requested I take it down LOL I was probably 14 then.
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Dance music was forbidden. When I was a kid, some other kids went out dancing at a place, and on the way back, got into a car accident, and so from then on a pastor and the town board forbid any sort of dancing music. When we wanted to have a dance, it had to be across the railroad tracks in another county. There was once a fight, but me and my friend won, and everybody could get footloose in their Sunday shoes.
I was a pre-teen in the late 90s and early 2000s, right when Limp Bizkit and Korn were at the height of their popularity. My mom HATED them, lol. She required I get the edited versions of all their cd's. By the time I was 15 she stopped really monitoring me, though. As long as she couldn't hear it.
To the OP, H-town is one of the best R&B group of the early 90s imo. Along with Jodeci of course.
My father listened to Black Sabbath. There was nothing he could forbid.
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There were a few songs I kept the volume down on, just in case.
