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There is a trend of entertainers developing Lighter and Softer material after they reach the "mainstream," when their original stuff was much more... well, R-rated. This is more obvious with rappers, who usually begin as anti-establishment and cynical musicians, and, as they go to Hollywood after they manage to get a hit out in the public's ears, begin to make more presentable appearances, going from "baggy pants and wifebeater" to "sport jacket and unbuttoned shirt" to "three piece suit." The only thing that doesn't change is the bling, it seems. And it's not just the wardrobe that changes. A Saturday Night Live guest spot today, presenting an MTV Video Awards tomorrow, a little "Sesame Street" Cred, and before you know, they'll have a Reality Show about raising their kids. The reasons for that are several. Either the entertainer actually changes their worldview after being exposed to a lifestyle until then unthinkable, they want to try something new (like acting!), the Moral Guardians excessively bashed the songs their kids insisted on listening to, or perhaps their pockets were lighter than they thought. But, the most common reason is having children—the entertainer doesn't want their kids to think of them as nothing more than the guy who shouted obscenities on TV, or they now feel how other parents felt about having their kids exposed to such obscenities. Compare Tom Hanks Syndrome. Related to Badass Decay, Lighter and Softer, Kinder and Cleaner (if the rapper cuts down on their language use), Scary Musician, Harmless Music and Bleached Underpants (when a work distances itself from its NSFW beginnings). So My Kids Can Watch happens when a performer does family-friendly fare with every intention of going back to business as usual afterwards. |
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Ozzy Osbourne was known as a particular family-unfriendly rockstar with Satanic undertones and lurid legends of his backstage exploits. Since the airing of The Osbournes, however, he's viewed as a befuddled and doddering old man. His harmless media appearances since then include pitching World of Warcraft. | |
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RoboCop 3 and RoboCop (2014) had a PG-13 rating. | |
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Courtesy of Cracked: "5 Shocking Early Versions of Famous Musicians," which provides the examples of Michael Bolton and the Goo Goo Dolls listed above under "Music". The others on the list, however, aren't examples of this trope.note The early careers of Bon Scott and The Bee Gees in bubblegum pop are inversions, in fact. | |
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Homestuck has copious, elaborate, Sophisticated as Hell swearing from nearly all characters and a lot of its humour revolves around ironic use of creepy internet fetish imagery. Both of its video game adaptations so far have used much tamer language and content, due to being presented in much more mainstream fashion and needing to find a common audience. Namco High is a lot cleaner in content than Homestuck, which is especially noticeable with the Homestuck characters who cameo. For a specific example, Dave Strider, whose quirk in Homestuck was that he spoke like a rapper (complete with loads and loads of swearing), doesn't swear at all in Namco High, although he does retain his gangsta speech patterns. Hiveswap doesn't contain any swearing despite treading similar plot territory to the mothership (such as Xefros being a rapper). Partially justified in that Joey is characterised as having a fairly prudish personality, up to the point where she draws clothing on artistic nudes. The squicky sexual elements are toned down a lot too - there's a statue of a musclebeast and musclebeast milk, but the horse-fetish implications are entirely not touched upon (for the best, definitely). |
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The entire genre of hip hop as record companies discovered it and subverted it to broaden it to a larger audience instead of the inner cities. From "Rapper's Delight", Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five's "The Message", "Fuck the Police" from Straight Outta Compton and "Public Enemy's "Fight The Power" from Fear of a Black Planet, to ... whatever it is they do today. Specifically, some individual rappers do it because they are getting older and wealthier and thus some feel the subjects they dealt with don't relate as much anymore, while others do it because they want to adopt an attitude of a "safe rapper", someone who can work with non hip hop artists and not scare off the latter's intended audience. Jay-Z is a good example. He started his career with a drug-dealing background and a "don" persona. As he got older, wealthier and more famous, he obviously wasn't going to still deal drugs, so matured as a person, fully embraced the star lifestyle and it reflects in his music. He's no longer a gangsta because he doesn't need to be, and in a sense it's a natural evolution. |
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Pink Sheep from Exploding TNT is also a good example of this. The main reason is that kids watch him and had to let go of his teens-to-adult random and narcissist personality and become a kid friendly MLG 'gangster.' He even censored the Dat Boi theme song to include the clean majority, which was from "Watch him rollin'... to ...rollin' to the beat." | |
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"Stone Cold" Steve Austin joked that when he hosted Raw after the PG switch, it greatly limited his vocabulary. | |
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Candice Michelle was a straight-up Ms. Fanservice with Les Yay in her stable Vince's Devils - being promoted for her spot as the sexy GoDaddy.com girl and cover on Playboy. As she progressed in the ring she toned down her outfits and dropped most of the overt sexuality in her character. | |
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Goo Goo Dolls started out as The Sex Maggots and were exactly the sort of band you'd expect to be named The Sex Maggots, a loud, abrasive Punk Rock band who performed songs with titles like "Don't Beat My Ass (With a Baseball Bat)". They only changed their name because an offended promoter refused to book them. This changed in The '90s as guitarist Johnny Rzeznik took over singing duties from bassist Robby Takac, culminating in what was then their Black Sheep Hit "Name", and since then they've become a staple of adult alternative who have never looked back. | |
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Avery Brooks was known for, outside of his Shakespeare work at least, monosyllabic gangsters. That is, until he got picked up by Star Trek and became the first black Captain. His first impulse was to turn it down, because Worf. | |
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Mickie James's initial WWE character was a Psycho Lesbian who cornered Trish Stratus under the mistletoe and had a memorable segment where she rubbed Trish's crotch and licked her hands afterwards. Even after that, one Finishing Move of hers was usually a kiss followed by a knockout kick. Thus it's very surprising that she was pushed as a Token Wholesome after a while. She too swapped the skirts she wrestled in for long pants. | |
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Both played straight and averted by various members of the Wu-Tang Clan. Whereas Method Man has had an acting career including a Fox sitcom and a cameo in a Zach Braff movie, Raekwon, GZA, and others have stuck to simply making hardcore hip-hop. | |
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The Police Academy movies are rated, in order, R, PG-13, PG, PG, PG, PG, PG . . . and then came the TV show, which was even PG-er. | |
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Referenced on The Boondocks episode "The Story of Gangstalicious": | |
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And even non-hip-hop artists such as Korn and Damian Marley! | |
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Sean Combs. Started as "Puff Daddy", a pot-loving rapper. Now, he owns a clothing line. Sure, he was never actually badass, but still, he went from advocating use of a illegal substance, to, well, whatever he is now. | |
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Dr. Dre went from being in the terrifying rap group N.W.A and being a notorious woman-beater, to being the Only Sane Man as his peroxided protege and muse Eminem cartoonishly rampaged in his videos. In the decades after that, he got progressively more domesticated and ended up as a billionaire Apple executive. Now, if his name is mentioned, it will be in his capacity as a sensitive, genius artist. In the 2022 Super Bowl Half Time Show, he's presented as a sort of patriarch of West Coast Hip-Hop nurturing his retinue of grown-up heirs. | |
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Trish Stratus portrayed a vampy seductress whose initial storylines in WWE were seducing Bubba Ray Dudley via his table fetish, and having an affair with Vince McMahon. Around 2002 she started being pushed as a serious wrestler, toned down her ring gear and was more of a Plucky Girl in the ring. Even after a heel turn in 2004 she was subject to Slut-Shaming but her character avoided Evil Is Sexy. | |
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Aerosmith becoming more prone to Power Ballads kinda fits... but not as much as Steven Tyler joining American Idol. | |
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Namco High is a lot cleaner in content than Homestuck, which is especially noticeable with the Homestuck characters who cameo. For a specific example, Dave Strider, whose quirk in Homestuck was that he spoke like a rapper (complete with loads and loads of swearing), doesn't swear at all in Namco High, although he does retain his gangsta speech patterns. | |
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Flo Rida’s debut album Mail on Sunday had a Parental Advisory sticker and was rated unsuitable for minors by Common Sense Media, but he quickly transitioned to making generic party-oriented pop-rap. | |
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Dwayne Johnson was once known exclusively as The Rock: a wrestler who hit you as hard in the ring as he did verbally outside of it, and if you didn't like it, you could keep your dislike to your self. When he first started acting he took roles like a mercenary-turned-Scorpion King, a professional bounty hunter (The Rundown) and a grizzled Gunnery Sergeant Space Marine (Doom). Then he showed up in Race to Witch Mountain, Planet 51 and The Tooth Fairy. And even his wrestling career was a step down from his college football career, when he would spark bench clearing brawls by taking a swing at an opposing team's mascot. He's now doing a complete 180 in his film career as Faster was Darker and Edgier than any of his other movie roles, and he's also starred in Fast Five. When he came back to WWE in 2011 he still had to tone himself down a lot, since Monday Night Raw is TV-PG now. To his credit he at least tried to push the envelope a bit, as much as WWE would let him get away with anyway. Dwayne would continue to zigzag this trope, however, by co-starring in Moana, a 2017 Disney musical film—and millions of viewers would hear him sing a musical number for the first time. | |
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John Cena is basically wrestling's version of this trope in effect. There was a time where he actually was rather profane, at least by wrestling's allowed standards. He himself chose to be more kid-friendly, just as WWE as a whole now is. It's been rumored that at one time WWE considered making SmackDown live, but UPN was terrified of giving Cena a live mic; this is the same man that later, live on Raw, tagged a limo with graffiti reading "JBL is poopy". | |
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Hiveswap doesn't contain any swearing despite treading similar plot territory to the mothership (such as Xefros being a rapper). Partially justified in that Joey is characterised as having a fairly prudish personality, up to the point where she draws clothing on artistic nudes. The squicky sexual elements are toned down a lot too - there's a statue of a musclebeast and musclebeast milk, but the horse-fetish implications are entirely not touched upon (for the best, definitely). | |
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Terminator Salvation and Live Free or Die Hard were both fourth installments of R-rated franchises that ended up Bowdlerized for a PG-13 rating. | |
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