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Music videos that are more like soft core pornography
After having the displeasure of seeing the video for Booty by Jennifer Lopez, I don't know if I can remember a more shameless sexually explicit music video in my life. The only others that come to mind in terms of being THAT extreme of Rihanna's videos for Pour It Up and S&M.
Can anyone think of any other videos that are this extreme? I don't like to get all Mary Whitehouse but I am really troubled by the impact these videos might be having on younger people by glorifying sleaze the way they do.
Can anyone think of any other videos that are this extreme? I don't like to get all Mary Whitehouse but I am really troubled by the impact these videos might be having on younger people by glorifying sleaze the way they do.
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I guess it pulls in the viewers .. that's its main intention. There were young kids in the room though and I felt uncomfortable about the bump and grind
I'd sign that petition! : D
I think the utter shamelessness is the worst thing about it. The people who make and star in these videos don't even try to hold back. It's like watching a bunch of morons in heat or something.
Lady Gaga - Alejandro (a few scenes are really dodgy)
Christina Aguilera - Not Myself Tonight (at the end)
Robbie Williams - Come Undone (very explicit scene at the end)
Shakira & Rihanna - Can't Remember To Forget You
Nicki Minaj - Anaconda
We Can't Stop - Miley Cyrus
Blurred Lines - Robin Thicke
'Blurred Lines' is about as sexist as you can get.
Miley Cyrus's 'Wrecking Ball' - although perhaps that is meant to be erotic, not sure.
There's been any number of threads on this subject. Perhaps a ratings system is required but often the criticism is aimed at women who are asserting their sexuality rather than the male artists who exploit it. See above!
The Prodigy's 'Smack my Bitch Up' is a brilliant video with a great payoff and it was censored at the time.
I know its because with the recent change to how the charts work that now youtube views count, so put a semi porno on and people will click it, but I hate those people and they are almost to dim to exist. But the real point that annoys me is that most people have the internet, so you can watch hardcore porno whenever you want, why waste your time on that crap when you can get the "real" stuff just as easily.
Its as if the human being has been reduced to its sexual desires and all higher thought has gone out the window in favor of hideous mediocrity.
Also soft core porn is infinitely sexier than hard core porn which is on the whole truly awful.
Someone is a piece of shit because they don't agree with your views on music videos
Christina Aguilera has never been shy in her videos. She's certainly not talentless. Countless of talented male artists have appeared semi-nude in music videos. I think people take them way too seriously. We see nudity in movies and on TV all the time. Just look at Game of Thrones. It doesn't mean there isn't a good TV show behind all of the sex.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fI_SyKGef4
It's an awful song, and the video itself didn't bother me until I actually thought about the fact that they had to film that and how utterly embarrassing and uncomfortable that must have been. And all to peddle a flipping terrible track.
(Love the Nokia product placement though!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dK_VECXi1Ak
Some of the lyrical highlights include:
E-Rotic - Max Don't Have Sex With Your Ex
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=387PiIvJT4s
Electric Six - Bodyshot.
"What's Rihanna's best selling point?"
"Her body"
"That's it, Rihanna in a darkened room..."
Gasps around the table
"...in a sequined bikini, touching herself suggestively"
"I like it, definitely links the song's concept with a good image and artistic integrity thrown in"
I agree with this (even as a big Rihanna fan). I actually like the song but this was the only time I was genuinely disappointed in her. It was done purely for publicity but you can't say that it didn't fit in with the Unapologetic era. I wish she'd have released Jump and made a video for that instead.
Ok seriously, what did people actually expect from Pour It Up about 'strip clubs and dollar bills' and drinking etc?
not for a nervous disposition