UNCENSORED POP MUSIC VIDEOS
Artist: Duran Duran
Song Name: Girls on Film
Release Year: 1981
Video Duration: 6 minutes and 15 seconds
Video Status: Censored and/or banned on television depending on region.
Tags: naked wrestling, nudity, topless pillow fighting, breasts, fetish
The video for Girls on Film was a little controversial and some stations banned it while others heavily censored it. It featured topless women mud wrestling and various other naked women involved in sexual fetishes. Directing duo Godley and Creme were responsible for this forward thinking art that was filmed in two weeks after MTV was launched in the U.S. Te band hoped the explicit uncensored video would show on nightclub screens and maybe the Playboy channel. It was quickly banned by the BBC in the Britain and edited/cut for airing on MTV. The controversy nonetheless boosted the band's popularity. Did you know the Betamax video version had the full uncensored 'night version'. As Simon Le Bon commented, it is a shame the scandal of the video overshadowed the song's message about fashion model exploitation...
Artist: Björk
Song Name: Cocoon
Release Year: 2002
Video Duration: 4 minutes and 25 seconds
Video Status: Banned from MTV. Censored/edited elsewhere.
Tags: topless, nudity, breasts
...the lyrics were not the problem for censors, it was the video. Bjork already had a reputaion after her controversial video for Pagan Poetry that featured distorted imagery of Bjork in sexual intercourse and performing fellatio (blowjob to some). MTV2 did eventually show Pagan Poetry on a program called "20 Most Controversial Music Videos". However, the milder nude shots in Cocoon have yet to be shown on MTV. Some European stations will show it late at night unedited...