Tipper Gore, co-founder of the Parents Music Resource Center, speaks during the hearing. (Mark Weiss | Getty Images)The PMRC urges the music industry to take responsibility for its influence on kids and teens. “I mean, I don’t.”Parental advisory labels are still present today, although they remain voluntary. But these days, buying music — by kids or their parents — has largely been replaced by streaming, which accounted for 84% of U.S. music industry revenue in 2023. Whether parental advisory stickers still serve as the clear moral guideposts they were meant to be remains difficult to determine.