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Video Censorship!
lastclearchance:
It is a very...dunno what the word is...evocative clip. But I think this whole banned video thing is as staged as the way the songs were released to the internet.
Bunnyman:
Theory: It's the homoeroticism. I was wondering if the lesbians were why, but the two guys going at it in the bathroom while a third watches probably wouldn't sit well with MTV's audience, to say nothing of their corporate benefactors. If it were just guy-girl action throughout, it'd probably be peachy. But guy on guy would bring down the misplaced wrath of the Religious Right (where are they, anyway? Did they give up on MTV?), worried about the propagation of the so-called homosexual agenda. To say nothing about losing the coveted homophobic-culturally-deprived-teenager demographic so coveted by marketers and yet endlessly and methodically deconstructed by society.
I find it very interesting that MTV (Who pretty much preach jackassery and hedonism as a religion) do all this censoring. The same MTV who shows hip-hop music videos that are pretty much landscapes composed entirely of bling, lowriders, and women in thongs, the same MTV who shows (as previously mentioned) Viva La Bam! and The Real World, censors this?
Who are they kidding, anyway? The teenagers who watch this stuff, convinced that whatever is shown represents the epitome of music culture, then run out and buy the placed products? The lobbyists concerned about corrupting the Youth Of America(tm)? The well-intentioned suburban mother that lets her children have TVs in their rooms?
Hat:
Wait, are you saying MTV plays music videos?
Please stop lying, you are bringing down the entire discourse of humanity with your filthy lies.
Storm Rider:
--- Quote from: Hat ---Wait, are you saying MTV plays music videos?
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In the dead time between Real World episodes.
Thrillho:
How many songs were taken off the radio after September 11th for no fucking reason? I think they were taking fucking Abba tracks off there just because they had the word 'fire' or 'plane' in there. Hell I think Jefferson Airplane were allowed on most radio stations for about six months.
And after the start of the Iraq war, they banned Diamonds And Guns by the Transplants from the radio just because it had the fucking word 'guns' in the title, and Bandages by Hot Hot Heat just because of its title. What the fuck is that?
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