What does Family Values Tour mean?

Question

I know it's a tour with Korn and other artists, but why the name? Is there any reason it is called the "Family Values" Tour?

Answer 1

It's an oxymoron... the tour is about anything but family values.

Edit: I disagree with Captain Carla... if it were a political shot at either party it would be at the dems...

Al and Tipper Gore were the ones that sponsored censorship of the music industry so heavily in the late 80's.

The Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC) was an American committee formed in 1985 by four women: Tipper Gore, wife of Senator and later Vice President Al Gore; Susan Baker, wife of Treasury Secretary James Baker; Pam Howar, wife of Washington realtor Raymond Howar; and Sally Nevius, wife of Washington City Council Chairman John Nevius. They were known as the "Washington wives"—a reference to their husbands' connections with the federal government. The Center eventually grew to include 22 directors.

The PMRC claimed that popular music, especially rock music, was partially responsible for the contemporary increase in rape, teenage pregnancy, and teen suicide. The group's mission was "to educate and inform parents" about "the growing trend in music towards lyrics that are sexually explicit, excessively violent, or glorify the use of drugs and alcohol," and to seek the censorship and rating of music.

The formation of the PMRC began in 1984 after Tipper Gore, along with her daughter Karenna, heard Prince's song "Darling Nikki." This track, which appears on the soundtrack to the film Purple Rain, contains graphic references.

Gore watched other rock music videos and concluded: "The images frightened my children, they frightened me! The graphic sex and the violence were too much for us to handle." Susan Baker became alarmed after hearing her seven-year-old daughter singing along with Madonna songs that Baker considered "suggestive." Gore and Baker, along with Howar and Nevius, formed the PMRC in May 1985.

The PMRC claimed that the change in rock music was attributable to the decay of the nuclear family in America. Gore asserted that families are "haven[s] of moral stability" which protect children from outside influence, and without the family structure rock music was "infecting the youth of the world with messages they cannot handle."

Answer 2

It may be a slight at republicans, one of their main platforms being "Family values"

I guess it could also be an endorsement, but somehow I don't see bands like Korn doing this without sarcasm.

Answer 3

Which Republican values? those of the wealthy Republicans who administration coverage or those of the working form Republicans who get tricked into vote casting Republican to their very own detriment?