Banned Music Videos
1. Smack My Bitch up - The prodigy
The video focuses on a night out in London where drugs, alcohol and excessive violence are prevalent through the entire video. The video won two MTV awards. In 2002 MTV voted it the most controversial music video.
2. Low- Foo Fighters - Jack Black was involved in this video and it shows him and Dave Grohl partying in a hotel room. The pair then proceed to dress up un ladies clothes, it then ends with black throwing up some sort of black substance.
3. Blurred Lines - Robin Thicke - This video was released in two different versions the normal version and the unrated version. The unrated version was the one which caused the most controversy. In the video it shows the girls in the video walking around in skin coloured underwear and it doesn't leave a lot to the imagination. It was removed from YouTube a week after it was released but then it was put back in place a few months afterwards.
Some music videos that were banned a while ago such as Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Relax , I don't believe would be banned in current times as the video was centred around homophobia which was not widely accepted in the time of its release , in fact it was banned from being played on the radio , yet it made it to number one. This shows that controversy makes people want the music video even more , however what was considered controversial twenty or so years ago would not be viewed in the same way now due to changing views and beliefs within society.
In essence there isn't actually any music video regulation, there are simply warnings put on videos , such as the parental advisory, explicit content sticker , first seen on the album N.W.A - Straight outta Compton. There are also restrictions in place such as on YouTube where you have to sign in to your account to watch certain videos as a way of proving you are 18 years old. However there are problems with this as both of these are easily avoided, for example somebody could just create an account on YouTube and lie about their age. The parental advisory sticker actually made people want to buy albums more so soon after it was first seen most record labels began putting them on all of their albums to increase sales.
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In essence there isn't actually any music video regulation, there are simply warnings put on videos , such as the parental advisory, explicit content sticker , first seen on the album N.W.A - Straight outta Compton. There are also restrictions in place such as on YouTube where you have to sign in to your account to watch certain videos as a way of proving you are 18 years old. However there are problems with this as both of these are easily avoided, for example somebody could just create an account on YouTube and lie about their age. The parental advisory sticker actually made people want to buy albums more so soon after it was first seen most record labels began putting them on all of their albums to increase sales.
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