Tuesday, February 06, 2007

The Effect of Censorship on Music Videos

Music videos stand for a word form of expressing an artistic message, but many people sometimes do a statement that is considered to be offensive. Therefore the music video acquires censored owed to these offense messages.

The definition of violative music videos is different from one state to another. What is considered to be violative in one state could be seen as a completely normal behavior in another. The ground for this state of affairs is the diverseness of civilizations that have got different Pentateuch and different ethics. The label company which is usually producing the music video is aware of this phenomenon, so videos are being edited and distributed in a censored version and an uncensored 1 for a single artist. Despite these attempts on behalf of the producers, some videos still acquire banned as they are still regarded as being too violative to be broadcasted to the public.

The first music video to be ever banned was ‘Girls on film’. It was banned by MTV in 1981, the very twelvemonth of the birth of this television station. This music video was considered to display too much amount of flesh and it was also banned by BBC for grounds of inordinate nudity. Mary had a batch of music videos that got banned for different causes. The ‘Justify my love’ music video was particularly censored for its display of homosexuality, sadomasochism and grouping sex. Another Mary music video, ‘What it experiences like for a girl’ was also banned by MTV because it displayed too much violence. And Mary was banned again old age later for the ‘American Life’ music video as it was considered to direct an anti-American message. The creative person was forced to hit another video for the song.

But Mary isn’t the lone creative person who have ever been banned. The ‘Smack my bitch up’ music video by Prodigy was also banned, but only in a few countries, as it contained mental images displaying drug usage and nudity. Even the music video for the hit song ‘Firestarter’ by Prodigy was censored by BBC as it was considered to direct a violent message for arson. The ‘God save the queen’ music video for the Sexual Activity Pistols was also censored by BBC for making an anti-royal statement.

Taking all these prohibitions into consideration, there is no wonderment that Arab Republic Of Egypt have banned around 20 music videos for their display of sexually-charged images!

Surprisingly, but even guiltless music videos go victims of censorships. For instance, REM’s ‘Losing My Religion’ music video was censored in Eire as it was displaying mental images which were considered to mock religion.

In conclusion, music videos have got been banned along the old age for all kinds of reasons: religion, nudity, violence, drugs etc. One thing necessitates to be said: the fact that a music video acquires banned doesn’t mean value it have a mediocre artistic value, it plainly intends that the message is inappropriate to be broadcasted on national television.


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