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Tuesday 29 September 2009

Controversial videos

Controversial videos
A prime example of a music video that caused uproar was “Smack My Bitch Up" by
The Prodigy, because people thought that it was done to promote violence against women. The basic plot of the video is a night out in the city filmed from that is filmed in a first-person perspective, portraying drinking and driving, snorting cocaine, violence, vandalism and sex. The video was banned on MTV but was only allowed to be shown after midnight because of its content. The vidoe has been named at #1 on the countdown and therefore named the "Most Controversial Video" in MTV's history. Even though this video has gone through much critisim it has picked up a few awards along the way such as Best Dance Video and Breakthrough Video at the MTV awards.


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Each of the pictures above are screen shots taken from the video they each show the parts that gives the music video its reputation. The screens shots go in order the first shows the person in the video snorting cocaine the second shows the person kicking somebody while they are on a nightclub dance floor. The third shows the character throwing a brick through a car window and the forth show the person having sex with the stripper. Each of these four things sex, drugs violence and vandalism give the video its Controversial qualities.

“Like a Prayer,” by Madonna was also a very controversial music video worldwide for a number of reasons these include Madonna making love to Saint
Martin de Porres who some faiths perceived as being a black version of Christ stigmata. The video also included cross burning discrimination, rape faith. The video went on to top the top MTV's countdown of "100 Videos That Broke the Rules"




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