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Gryff:
I know we don't need reminding, but man, MTV is fucked up. The Strokes video for 'Juicebox' has been censored to all hell for what seems to be nothing but some "suggestive" material. The director Michael Palmieri said this stuff about the situation:

"the unfortunate problem mtv had with censoring the video is that there was nothing explicit in the video to take out to begin with. they were trying to censor an idea, which is really hard to do. the video is deliberately unsettling. to me it's about the end of the line of american behaviour - bad fart jokes, pornography, voyeurism, old women and their fucked up intimate relations with pets because human beings just don't cut the mustard, technology driving us away from one another by bringing us closer to one another in other more obscene ways, etc.  but is there really any actual sexual content in this video? not really. christina aguilera shakes her booty with a gaffer-taped thong two inches from the camera for three minutes and that's ok, but we can't show a blurred out image of women wearing bikinis in a magazine in a wide shot for half a second, at least according to mtv, because it's disgraceful to women."

"the censorship on this video has so many layers to it it's staggering. it began before we even started filming it, fueled by a statement made by julian in all good humor about the possibility of "full frontal nudity" being in their next video and that "mtv will never air it". that comment created a buzz storm on the internet and started the narrowing-down process of what the video was going to be allowed to be in everyone's heads."

http://www.michaelpalmieri.com/

sjbrot:
Alot of music stations have banned videos for very inane reasons. MTV seems very bad in this regard from what I hear. My favorite example from the past year was how M.I.A.'s video for "Galang" got banned from MTV, apparently because she rhymes "Blaze-ah-blaze" with "Purple haze" in the chorus.

This doesn't sense. MTV try and foster this image of themselves as a station for youth culture and they show crap like the Real World and stuff that has make references sexual and drug content. Heck, they show Viva la Bam!, which may as well be a guide on how to turn yourself into a complete little asshole.

Why do they censor these videos then?

Valrus:
I like how the video I have for "Gay Bar" by the Electric Six has the phrase "nuclear war" censored out, but "I've got something to put in you" is fine.

As are the, um, homoerotically writhing Abraham Lincolns.

McTaggart:
It really wouldn't surprise me if they were censoring the videos simply to protect the American Music Industry(tm). There are more than likely some backroom deals going on between the some labels and MTV so they show more of their artists.

Spike:
A deal like that has already been exposed in the radio industry.

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