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Old 20-09-2009, 12:57
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This has been bugging me for ages.

Why is it that many artists like Leona Lewis, Kid Cudi release music videos here and as soon as they get a little notoriety in the US, they come out with a different video for american audiences.

For example, Leona Lewis' 'Bleeding Love', as soon as the states got an ear of it, there was a brand new video for the single. Personally i prefer the British version.


It kinda pisses me off. Aren't the music video made for us, good enough for the Americans?
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Old 20-09-2009, 13:15
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Leona's management were told by the networks that the first video was too much, so they did a new version for daytime and the Middle East and parts of Asia. And the first video for Bleeding Love was American anyway.

Both aired on the US television.
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Old 20-09-2009, 13:18
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You also need to remember artists tend to have different management teams in the US, who will have the money to want to do their own videos.
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Old 20-09-2009, 13:22
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Though in cases like Daniel Bedingfield and Atomic Kitten, their UK videos were cheap ass and not good enough for the US market.
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Old 20-09-2009, 13:52
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I remember the All saints had to re do a video of their for the US market.. cant remember the song but they said it was because americans 'didnt understand the original video'

I dont mind them making different videos though.. sometimes the US videos end up being better..
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Old 20-09-2009, 17:33
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This has been bugging me for ages.

Why is it that many artists like Leona Lewis, Kid Cudi release music videos here and as soon as they get a little notoriety in the US, they come out with a different video for american audiences.

For example, Leona Lewis' 'Bleeding Love', as soon as the states got an ear of it, there was a brand new video for the single. Personally i prefer the British version.


It kinda pisses me off. Aren't the music video made for us, good enough for the Americans?
The majority of the time, our videos are so cheap and tacky, I am not surprised they want to make a new version.
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Old 20-09-2009, 17:40
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Leona's management were told by the networks that the first video was too much, so they did a new version for daytime and the Middle East and parts of Asia. And the first video for Bleeding Love was American anyway.

Both aired on the US television.
Are you sure? Why would they go to all the bother of making a new one if they are going to show both? I think she looks stunning in the US version.
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Old 20-09-2009, 17:54
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Are you sure? Why would they go to all the bother of making a new one if they are going to show both? I think she looks stunning in the US version.
The first video probably played in the evenings, the second one during the daytime and during promos.

Aside from location shooting in New York, the second video probably didn't cost that much.
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Old 20-09-2009, 18:07
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It'll be the American media fatcats, being convinced that the US public will look upon anything even slightly visibly foriegn with horror. Remember all of our sitcoms that the TV bosses insisted would need to be remade completely in order to attract an American audience? Remember how the only reason that was ever given was that the programmes needed to be 'more suitable' for Americans, and that Americans 'won't understand all these British terms and references'? And it isn't just our stuff- remember all the 4kids anime dubs that had to have anything even remotely Japanese ripped out before the series could be aired?

It's just the USA's particular way of treating their viewers like idiots. If they're doing it with music videos too, it doesn't surprise me.
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Old 20-09-2009, 18:19
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Turquoise, you're a bit OTT, comparing music videos to oversexualised Japanense anime. For the record, both Bleeding Love videos are American.
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Old 20-09-2009, 18:22
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Since when was Pokemon oversexualised? And they were cutting out rice balls and editing out Kanji (even really irrelevant Kanji on the background, as well as changing half the storylines). And I didn't just mention anime anyway- I was mostly talking about British sitcoms. The only reason I mentioned anime was to prove it isn't just British stuff that gets Americanised to death in the states.

Also, lots of music videos, from any and every country, are oversexualised. The USA media doesn't seem to have a problem with that in particular! It has nothing to do with sex!
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Old 20-09-2009, 18:28
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Since when was Pokemon oversexualised? And they were cutting out rice balls and editing out Kanji (even really irrelevant Kanji on the background, as well as changing half the storylines)

Also, lots of music videos, from any and every country, are oversexualised. The USA media doesn't seem to have a problem with that in particular! It has nothing to do with sex!
Who the heck eats riceballs in the West? They just changed them into doughnuts for the dub, big deal, same goes for the Kanji, it's a US dub, they're allowed to make it relevant to local markets.

And do you really need me to pull up images of racist Pokemon, Team Rocket with their breasts hanging out, Team Rocket using a gun, and of course, the infamous epilepsy episode that caused 700 Japanese children to be rushed to hospital?
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Old 20-09-2009, 22:40
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Leona's management were told by the networks that the first video was too much, so they did a new version for daytime and the Middle East and parts of Asia. And the first video for Bleeding Love was American anyway.

Both aired on the US television.

But the 1st video was primarily intended for British audiences.

Though in cases like Daniel Bedingfield and Atomic Kitten, their UK videos were cheap ass and not good enough for the US market.
Aren't we deserving of the same quality? On the other hand America is more superficial than the UK.

It'll be the American media fatcats, being convinced that the US public will look upon anything even slightly visibly foriegn with horror. Remember all of our sitcoms that the TV bosses insisted would need to be remade completely in order to attract an American audience? Remember how the only reason that was ever given was that the programmes needed to be 'more suitable' for Americans, and that Americans 'won't understand all these British terms and references'?
It's just the USA's particular way of treating their viewers like idiots. If they're doing it with music videos too, it doesn't surprise me.

That pisses me off aswell. I just saw an ad for the US version of Life on mars. Are Americans soo special that they need a existing series to be recreated just for them. Can't they watch our version of Life on Mars? Surely it would it be a cheaper alternative.

We don't demand that US shows like LOST and Heroes be recreated for British audiences.
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Old 20-09-2009, 22:53
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the americans ALWAYS remake everything, god knows why, its especially irritating when they remake british tv shows, they just want everything americanised, when infact they end up ruining it altogether.
in the case of leona's video, i found it completely bizarre that they chose to remake it - considering the US version was far more dull and pointless compared to the original video, they should have saved the money and put it 2 better use !
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