some issues surrounding music videos. Why they are often banned.

1. Issues Within Music
Videos
Nudity, inappropriate imagery, sex, sexuality, religion, explicit lyrics.
These are all problems which could appear in
music videos

2. Rihanna – Pour it up
Rihanna’s video to her song pour it up
this year received very mixed views. It
was banned within ten minutes due to its
explicit imagery and nudity. She changed
the video so it was a lot less explicit. She
was seen grinding on a golden throne in
the video wearing a bra and thongs,
strippers were sliding down poles in the
background. The video shows a lot of the
female body and sexual dance moves.

3. Megadeath – in my darkest
hour
This music video was
banned by MTV as the lyrics
where thought to be about
suicide. This song is a good
example of songs banned
due to its lyrics. The lyrics
include things such as
‘things will be better once im
dead and gone’, ‘please god
send me on my way’ and
more. The singer said the
song was about the death of
his former band mate.

4. Madonna – Justify my
love video was extremely explicit, it had nudity, sexual scenes,
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bisexuality, s&m and voyeurism. The video is very open with what it
shows. Due to the video being made in 1990 it is still available on
YouTube although it did get banned by MTV from showing on
televisions. It was a very controversial video.

5. There are many other videos which have
either been banned or censored. These
days many lyrics are changed, blurs are
put over any unsuitable things. Some
songs such as Miley Cyrus’ ‘Wrecking
Ball’ aren’t really changed as they aren’t
too bad, although day are still frowned
upon a lot