Has The Time Now Come For Some Control To Be Taken Over Sexually Explicit Pop Videos?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/07/pop-stars-sexy-netmums-parents-miley-cyrus

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2489640/80-parents-caught-children-copying-porn-style-dances-offensive-lyrics.html

[jno]

sexually explicit? Hardly. The "lyrics" are ruder than they used to be, though mostly some way short of explicit; and the dancing hasn't come all that much further since Elvis was censored on TV for wiggling his pelvis.

I can't say I like any of it, but what sort of control would you envisage? Banning YouTube and MTV?

[Zacs-Master]

Don't you remember pans people or hot gossip on TOTP?

[emmie]

some would make my o/h blush, and he has been gone these many years.

[factor-fiction]

When I was a teenager it was very rare for records to have explicit sexual, violence, drug or alcohol references. (There were more subtle references though in things like Lucy in The Sky, Perfect Day, White Rabbit etc.)
It has been changing over many years - Smack My B1tch Up, Fck You Right Back, etc were hits over 10 years ago.
Now the majority of chart records will have some explicit lyrics- radio stations need to do lots of editing but the downloaded versions are explicit. . I could give loads of examples of crude lyrics, drug and sex references and references to women as 'b1tches.'
Can we stop the trend though? I doubt it. Does it really harm our children? I'm not sure.

[FredPuli43]

When I was about 9, my mother dressed me up as Elvis Presley, for a family Christmas party. My aunts were horrified by that choice alone, and I knew the style of performance. Of course, I didn't know any more than that was he did; it had no suggestive or sexual meaning to me. And that, I suspect, is all that children who imitate adults understand.

[sp1814]

AOG

What kind of control do you envisage?

[FredPuli43]

And factor, what do you think our children will tell their grandchildren ? "Music today isn't like it was in my day. Why, we had "F*** my bitch" and lots of others, great lyrics and songs!"

[Kromovaracun]

No, I don't think it is.

[hc4361]

I don't want to see little girls twerking, winin and grinding :(

[jno]

just as well they dropped MiniPops then, hc4361. At least now the question is whether our children should see these things, not whether they should do it on TV themselves.

[hc4361]

I'm not referring to children on tv - I mean at family parties, weddings and so on

[jno]

I know. I'm just suggesting things have got better since the time when they actually encouraged kids to do it in public.

[Zacs-Master]

Another tossed handgrenade with no response.

[pixie373]

I think music, whether audio or video has always been quite corrupting. It is everywhere. I can certainly remember asking my parents about lyrics from songs that i didn't understand and learnt more from that than the school playground. I think it's often way too graphic, but maybe I'm a bit of a prude:-\

[anotheoldgit]

Zacs-Master

/// Another tossed handgrenade with no response. ///

This is not about me, it is myself asking a question that I put up for others to respond to if they so wish.

If you are unhappy with that, don't bother responding, it's as simple as that, but then perhaps not for the likes of you.

[Zeuhl]

/Some Control To Be Taken Over Sexually Explicit Pop Videos?/

There already is - Broadcasters are subject to Codes and their licences depend on their compliance (unlike newspapers)

You won't see or hear anything in a televised pop video that you wouldn't see in any form of television