Nudity in music videos

The appearance of nudity in music videos has caused controversy since the late 1970s, and several explicit videos have been censored or banned. Nudity has gained wider acceptance on European television, where audiences often view nudity and sexuality as less objectionable than the depiction of violence. In contrast, MTV, VH1 and other North American music-related television channels usually censor what they think is inappropriate and might be considered offensive to their viewers.^[1]

Notable examples

1970s

Year	Music video	Artist(s)	Director	Nude person(s)	Nudity description
1978	"Bicycle Race" (Uncensored Version)	Queen	Dennis de Vallance	Female actors	65 naked women racing bicycles at Wimbledon. The video was edited for commercial release.

1980s

Year	Music video	Artist(s)	Director	Nude person(s)	Nudity description
1981	"Girls on Film" (Uncensored Version)	Duran Duran	Godley & Creme	Female actors	Partially nude models "strutting" on catwalks. The video was edited for MTV play, but even in that form was controversial.[2]
1981	"Sex Dwarf"	Soft Cell	Tim Pope	Female actors and Marc Almond	Fully nude women tortured on table and covered in meat, threatened by chain-saw wielding midgets. Marc Almond runs around wearing a jockstrap (this video was confiscated by the police).[3]
1982	"Allentown"	Billy Joel	Russell Mulcahy	Male actors	Male coal miners are seen nude from behind while showering together
1982	"Twilight Zone"	Golden Earring	Dick Maas	Female actor	Topless in one scene.[4]
1983	"China Girl"	David Bowie	David Mallet	David Bowie	David Bowie's buttocks are shown as he and Geeling Ng passionately kiss on a beach, nude.[5]
1983	"Visions in Blue"	Ultravox		Female actors	Two women are shown topless with bare breasts showing, draped in towels washing themselves beside a fireplace.
1983	"Relax" (First Version)	Frankie Goes to Hollywood	Bernard Rose	Male actor	An actor rips off his clothes at a night club at the end of the video.[6]
1983	"Morgane de toi"	Renaud	Serge Gainsbourg	Female actor and children	A woman rides a horse topless on a beach, and a group of children run naked.
1984	"Up the Creek"	Cheap Trick	Dominic Orlando	Female actors	Three versions of the video were produced, one with bikini-clad women, the second topless, and the third with full nudity, frontal and rear. The third version was shown on the Playboy Channel and featured in Playboy magazine.
1984	"The Wild Boys" (Unedited Version)	Duran Duran	Russell Mulcahy	Female actors	Features bare breasts.
1984	"Madam Butterfly"	Malcolm McLaren		Female actors	A nude female model is massaged by another female model.
1984	"Rock You" (Uncensored Version)	Helix		Female actors	Features female actors topless around a campfire. A censored version
1985	"Imagination"	Belouis Some	Storm Thorgerson	Female actors	Full-frontal nudity in dream sequences.[7]
1985	"Catholic School Girls Rule"	Red Hot Chili Peppers	Dick Rude	Female actor	Topless female dance scene.[8]
1985	"Slave to the Rhythm"	Grace Jones	Jean-Paul Goude	Grace Jones with male actor	Frontal nudity, for artistic purposes.[9]
1986	"Libertine"	Mylène Farmer	Laurent Boutonnat	Mylène Farmer, two other actresses, and a male actor	Three woman undress and take a bath together, one of which being Farmer. In another scene, Mylène and an actor have sex on a bed, before showing a complete frontal nude of Farmer on the bed.[10]
1987	"Girls, Girls, Girls" (Uncensored Version)	Mötley Crüe	Wayne Isham	Female dancers	Topless stripclub employees.
1987	"Étienne" (Uncensored Version)	Guesch Patti	Lydie Callier	Guesch Patti	Patti performs a striptease.
1988	"Mountain Song" (Uncensored Version)	Jane's Addiction		Male & Female Actors	Hot wax is shown being poured down a female actor's breasts, as well as a male & female actor being repeatedly shown lying down fully nude in a bed of flowers.
1989	"Pop Song 89"	R.E.M.	Michael Stipe	Female dancers	3 female dancers dance topless with an also topless Michael Stipe.[11]

1990s

Year	Music video	Artist(s)	Director	Nude person(s)	Nudity description
1990	"Justify My Love" (Uncensored Version)	Madonna	Jean-Baptiste Mondino	Female and male actors	Depictions of sexual fetishes, including a woman who is bare-chested except for braces (suspenders). The video was refused by MTV.[12]
1990	"Being Boring"	Pet Shop Boys	Bruce Weber	Actor	As the video starts, a male actor is seen naked from behind while swimming and on a trampoline.[13]
1991	"Appetite for Destruction"	N.W.A.		Female and male actors	Female and male actors are depicting Adam and Eve naked and shows Eve leaning into Adam, mounting him, and enticing him with an apple.
1991	"Sin"	Nine Inch Nails	Brett Turnbull	Men and women	Pierced male and female genitalia, also topless women.
1991	"Primal Scream" (Uncensored Version)	Mötley Crüe	Matt Mahurin	Female actor	Female dancing, showing full-frontal nudity.
1991	"Be Thankful for What You Got"	Massive Attack	Baillie Walsh	Female stripper	Female stripper dances and strips, showing full-frontal nudity.
1992	"Erotica" (Uncensored Version)	Madonna	Fabien Baron	Sex book models	Making of the Sex book. Madonna is also seen hitch-hiking the streets, showing full-frontal nudity at the end of the video.
1992	"Only If You Want It" (Uncensored Version)	Eazy-E		Actress	Girl's breast is exposed after she's hosed down.
1992	"Happiness in Slavery"	Nine Inch Nails	Jon Reiss	Bob Flanagan	Male genitals exposed.
1992	"Not A Day Goes By"	Rick Price		Female artistic nude	Non-frontal views in an artistic pose.
1993	"Sweet Harmony"	The Beloved	Big TV!	Singers	Male and female singers are all nude.
1994	"Closer"	Nine Inch Nails	Mark Romanek	Actress	An actress is seen fully naked in multiple scenes.
1996	"How Do U Want It" (Uncensored Version)	2Pac featuring K-Ci & JoJo	Ron Hightower	Various actresses	Many dancers topless and several fully nude.
1996	"Fastlove"	George Michael	Vaughan Arnell & Anthea Benton	Actress	one of the actress can be seen topless about seconds.
1997	"Face Off"	Jay-Z featuring Sauce Money	Abdul Malik Abbott	Various actresses	Several topless females and one female full-frontal nudity, vulva also shown.
1998	"Fly Away"	Lenny Kravitz	Paul Hunter		A girl in the crowd dancing topless is shown briefly several times.
1998	"Thank You"	Alanis Morissette	Stéphane Sednaoui	Alanis Morissette	The singer appears nude, with hairs covering her breast.[14]
1999	"From the Cradle to Enslave"	Cradle of Filth	Alex Chandon	Female actors

2000s

Year	Music video	Artist(s)	Director	Nude person(s)	Nudity description
2000	"Untitled (How Does It Feel)"	D'Angelo	Paul Hunter	D'Angelo	D'Angelo is shot wearing a gold chain and nothing else against a black background in a single continuous take in which the camera rotates around the singer.[15]
2000	"Playmate of the Year" (Uncensored Version)	Zebrahead	Mark Kohr	Topless Playmates	Various Playboy Playmates are shown topless.
2000	"Bohemian Like You"	The Dandy Warhols	Courtney Taylor	Male and female actor	Male actor is fully naked in a bar, female actor is fully nude but her pubic region is covered by her leg.
2001	"Fiesta"	R. Kelly featuring Jay-Z	Little X & R. Kelly	Three actresses	The three actresses are seen topless at a beach.
2002	"Girls of Summer" (Latin American / European Version)	Aerosmith	Dave Meyers	Actor	An actor is seen nude when a girl pulls his pants down to humiliate him.
2002	"Lapdance" (Uncensored Version)	N*E*R*D featuring Lee Harvey and Vita	Diane Martel	Various actresses	Several actresses are seen dancing around Pharrell and other band members topless and showing their butts while touching each other's breasts throughout the entire video.
2002	"Cocoon"	Björk	Eiko Ishioka	No one	Björk apparently is fully naked, but actually it's a bodysuit.
2003	"Superman"	Eminem	Paul Hunter	Porn star Gina Lynn and Eminem	Eminem bends his buttocks over through a door, telling a girl he just finished a one-night stand with to kiss his ass. The girl later takes her top off and her bare breasts are revealed in an attempt to seduce Eminem. In the VEVO and television version, Eminem's buttocks and the girl's bare breasts are pixelated.
2003	"Work It" (Uncensored Version)	Nelly featuring Justin Timberlake	Joseph Kahn	Two actresses	In the uncensored version, two Playboy Playmates appear completely naked on a tennis court with Nelly.
2003	"P.I.M.P." (Uncensored Version)	50 Cent featuring G-Unit and Snoop Dogg	Chris Robinson	Various actresses	In the uncensored version, female actresses are seen dancing topless.
2003	"P-Poppin" (Uncensored Version)	Ludacris featuring Shawnna and Lil Fate		Various actresses	In the uncensored version, female actresses are seen dancing nude. Ludacris is seen smacking the backsides of several actresses in very sexual poses. Some of these actresses are exposing their vaginal area.
2003	"Protège-Moi"	Placebo	Gaspar Noé	Male and female actors	Both male and female full nudity featured. The video takes place during an orgy and includes explicit unsimulated sexual content. Never officially released due to the level of sexual content.[16]
2003	"Come Undone"	Robbie Williams	Jonas Åkerlund	Two actresses	Robbie Williams is involved in a threesome with two women; one is topless and the other fully nude with her genitals blurred, he is wearing underwear.
2003	"Progenies of the Great Apocalypse" (Uncensored Version)	Dimmu Borgir		Actresses
2004	"Disco Inferno"	50 Cent	Ulysses Terrero	Various actresses	Several actresses are seen nude while 50 Cent is at a strip club.
2004	"Ding Dong Song"	Gunther		Two Actresses	Gunther in seen nude on the beginning, showing his buttocks uncensored. Some female actress also are shown nude, but not showing the genitalia and the breasts.
2004	"My Band" (Uncensored Version)	D12	Phillip G. Atwell and Eminem	Two actress	A topless woman dances on a pole and a topless woman appears next to Eminem.
2005	"Feel It"	DJ Jean		Several actresses	Throughout the video a fully naked bathing woman and some topless pole dancing women are seen.
2005	"One Night in Bangkok"	Vinylshakerz		Various female models	Various women are seen topless.
2005	"They" (UK Version)	Jem		Jem	Teenager falls asleep building a spaceship model and dreams of Jem, in the spaceship, taking off her spacesuit.
2005	"How Do You Do!"	Cascada			Woman riding a bull riding machine takes her top off.
2006	"Yeah Yeah"	Bodyrox featuring Luciana		Actresses	Several actresses showing their breasts.
2006	"Mann gegen Mann"	Rammstein	Jonas Åkerlund	Rammstein members; several actors	Rammstein members are seen using their instruments covering their genitals; male actors are seen nude from behind.
2007	"New Dark Ages"	Bad Religion		Unknown actress	For a split second, a topless woman can be seen, what looks like, masturbating. Her breasts are censored by a black bar.
2007	"Gimme More" (Uncensored Version)	Britney Spears	Jake Sarfaty	Britney Spears	In the uncensored version, Spears is topless near the end of the video during a striptease (she is wearing pasties).
2007	"Piece of Me" (Uncensored Version)	Britney Spears	Wayne Isham	An actress	In the uncensored version, an actress' derrière is shown in the video.
2007	"Survivalism"	Nine Inch Nails	Alex Lieu	Various actresses	A topless woman is seen at a bathroom mirror via (simulated) security camera footage.
2007	"Baby Love"	Nicole Scherzinger	-	Nicole Scherzinger	Scherzinger has a semi-nude appearance in the video.
2008	"Addicted" (Uncensored Version)	Saving Abel	Anthony Honn	Various actresses	Various women appear topless.
2008	"Hustler" (Uncensored Version)	Kano		Various actresses	Various women appear topless.
2008	"Gobbledigook" from the album Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust	Sigur Rós	Arni & Kinski	Various actors, actresses and band members	A mixed gender group of 10 or so young adults partake in fully nude outdoor activities which includes walking, running, dancing and swimming.
2008	"So What"	Pink	Dave Meyers	Pink	In one scene from the music video, Pink takes off her jacket, revealing her nude body. Her buttocks and her breasts are censored with a black bar.
2008	"Undead"	Hollywood Undead	Jonas Åkerlund	Various actresses	Various girls are seen topless performing sexual acts on a few of the band members as well as on other topless girls.
2008	"Toe Jam"	The Brighton Port Authority featuring David Byrne and Dizzee Rascal	Keith Schofield	Various actresses	This video uses the censor bars to form figures on the screen.
2008	"Womanizer"	Britney Spears	Joseph Kahn	Britney Spears	Spears appears nude in a sauna, and uses her hands to cover herself up.[17]
2009	"I Almost Told You That I Loved You" (Uncensored Version)	Papa Roach	Colin Minihan	Unknown actress	One woman walks down the hall with her top off.
2009	"I Gotta Feeling" (Uncensored Version)	The Black Eyed Peas	-	Female actress	One woman gets her top pulled down at 2:10.
2009	"A Looking in View"	Alice in Chains	Stephen Schuster	Female actress	A woman is seen bare in her bathroom and in water.
2009	"Leave the World Behind"	Axwell & Sebastian Ingrosso, Steve Angello, Laidback Luke	-	Female in crowd at concert	A woman is seen expossing her breasts at 02:31.
2009	"Pussy"	Rammstein	Jonas Åkerlund	Band members, various porn models	Body-doubles of band members have hardcore sex with different women.[18]
2009	"Want"	Natalie Imbruglia	Diane Martel	Natalie Imbruglia	Natalie herself is taking pictures of herself topless on the floor. No frontal nudity.
2009	"Bad Romance"	Lady Gaga	Francis Lawrence	Lady Gaga	Lady Gaga gets topless in a tub when two women takes off her clothes, then she is shown nude backlit from behind. No frontal nudity.
2009	"LoveGame"	Lady Gaga	Joseph Kahn	Lady Gaga	Lady Gaga is fully nude on a bench with two men in their underwear. She has rhinestones and body paint all over her. No frontal nudity.
2009	Baby, Baby, Baby	Make The Girl Dance		Three actresses	Three women walk down the street fully nude passing a radio to each other. Their breasts and genitalia are censored with a black bar.

2010s

Year	Music video	Artist(s)	Director	Nude person(s)	Nudity description
2010	"Ain't Got No (I Got Life)"	Patrice		Various actors and actresses	Time lapse footage of naked actors and actresses running around throughout the video
2010	"Kids in Love"	Mayday Parade		Various actors and actresses.	The actors and actresses are nude throughout the video.
2010	"Window Seat"	Erykah Badu	Coodie Rock	Erykah Badu	Badu strips during the video and walks around at the site of John F. Kennedy's assassination.[19][20]
2010	"Beauty Through Order"[21]	Slayer	Ben Hibon	Charlie Mayhew[22]	In the music video, a nude woman emerges from a black liquid (presumably oil) and there are brief shots of her breasts and buttocks.
2010	"Hurricane"	Thirty Seconds to Mars		Various actors and actresses	Frequent shots of nudity, sex and sexual violence involving males, females and transsexuals. Bondage activities are consistent throughout. Explores sexual fetishism in a nightmarish context. The video was banned from music channels for its explicit content and was replaced by a censored version.
2010	"Dirty Picture"	Taio Cruz ft Kesha	Alex Herron	Female Actress	In the Dirty Version of the music video, bare breasts are shown one time as a stripper spins around a pole around 2:31.[23]
2010	"Calma Pueblo"	Calle 13			People starts to undress and running nude.
2010	"California Gurls"	Katy Perry	Matthew Cullen	Katy Perry	Perry during her first chorus of the song is seen fully nude lying down on a cotton candy created cloud. Her buttocks are covered by a layer of cloud going over the area for decency.[24] She is shown on the cloud several more times in the video.
2010	"Renegades"	Feeder		Female actress	Same character as seen in the "Call Out" video, destroys the band's dressing rooms while they are rehearsing nearby and also takes her frustrations out on other people. She is seen topless in the video which is not censored[25]
2010	"Twin Flames"	Klaxons		The Band members, various actresses.	The band members are involved in an orgy with several women. As the video progresses their body parts begin to fuse.
2010	"Tonight (I'm Fuckin' You)"	Enrique Iglesias		Various actresses.	Near the beginning female strippers are seen topless and Iglesias is shown in bed with many topless women.
2011	"All Over the House"	Skepta		Two pornographic actors	The video features a black pornographic actor and a white pornographic actress having hardcore sex.[26]
2011	"Ihmisixsixsix"	Turmion Kätilöt		Various topless actresses	The video was removed from YouTube due to this "offending material". As a response, the band directed a brand new video, featuring behind-the-scenes and off-stage material with numerically even more explicit content, censored by pixelation.
2011	"E.T."	Katy Perry	Floria Sigismondi	Shaun Ross	Male model is seen nude with rear shown toward the end of the video
2011	"Moves Like Jagger"	Maroon 5 feat. Christina Aguilera	Jonas Åkerlund	Various dancers	The explicit version has female frontal nudity (flashes of naked female breasts, one shown in 2:50 of the video)
2011	"Get Away"	Yuck	Michael Reich	Female actress	A girl stands naked in the entire clip and is tied and gagged, and drizzled with what appears to be oil.
2011	"I Feel Like Dancin'"	All Time Low		Matthew Stawski	In a scene spoofing Katy Perry's California Gurls The lead singer is shown lying nude on his stomach on a pile of cotton candy with part of it covering his buttocks.
2011	"Marry the Night"	Lady Gaga	Haus of GaGa	Lady Gaga	Lady Gaga dances topless with her breasts covered by a black censor bar.
2011	"Down for Whatever"	Kelly Rowland featuring The WAV.s	Sarah Chatfield	Kelly Rowland	Rowland is standing on a platform supposedly nude in high heels with strategically placed streaming lights obscuring full frontal nudity.[27]
2011	"Antidote" (Uncensored Version)	Swedish House Mafia vs. Knife Party	Maxim Bohichik & Alex Bergman	Female actors	In the uncensored version, two dancers are dancing topless in a strip club. While the robbery is being performed two more dancers run completely naked.
2012	"Girl Gone Wild" (Uncensored Version)	Madonna	Mert and Marcus	Male model	In the uncensored version, a model is lying on the floor completely naked (rear shown).[28]
2012	"Oh Love" (Uncut Version)	Green Day	Samuel Bayer	Topless woman	In the uncut version, some woman are seen topless at the end of the video.
2012	"Turn Up the Radio"	Madonna	Tom Munro	Female Dancer	One of the dancers is wearing denim overalls without a bra, her right breast slips out in 3 occasions.[29]
2013	"Stay"	Rihanna	Sophie Muller	Rihanna	Rihanna is bathing in water completely nude [30]
2013	"Blurred Lines"	Robin Thicke	Diane Martel		In the unrated version, three topless girls are walking and dancing around, through the whole videoclip [31]
2013	"Tunnel Vision"	Justin Timberlake	Jonathan Craven, Simon McLoughlin, Jeff Nicholas	Female models	Three models dance topless [32]
2013	"Wrecking Ball"	Miley Cyrus	Terry Richardson	Miley Cyrus	Cyrus appears nude atop a wrecking ball[33]
2013	"Afraid"	The Neighbourhood	Ends	Jesse Rutherford	Rutherford is briefly shown nude showing his penis while sitting in a chair[34]
2014	"Animals"	Maroon 5	Samuel Bayer	Adam Levine and Behati Prinsloo	Levine and Prinsloo embracing and kissing each other fully naked, covered in blood.[35]
2015	"This Summer's Gonna Hurt like a Motherfucker"	Maroon 5	Travis Schneider & Adam Levine	Adam Levine	Levine is briefly shown to be fully nude (exposing his buttocks) in the start of the video.[36]
2015	"Timebomb"	Tove Lo	Emil Nava	Tove Lo	She appears nude on a beach.[37]
2015	"Bitch Better Have My Money"	Rihanna	Megaforce and Rihanna	Rihanna	A woman shown to be tortured by Rihanna and her sidekicks is completely topless near the beginning and middle of the video, while Rihanna herself appears nude, covered in blood at the end of the video with only a bill covering her genitals.[38]
2015	"Be As You Are"	Mike Posner		Mike Posner and several men and women	People are shown stripping nude and running into the ocean after ripping up signs showing negative things they have been called. Posner does the same at the end of the video ripping a sign which reads "afraid." Only their buttocks are shown.[39]

See also

• Censorship of music
• Nudity in film

Notes

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2. Collins, Scott (10 December 2006). "Thanks for the memories: Videos from the '80s find new life on YouTube". Boston Globe. Retrieved 2009-05-10.
3. McKenna, Kristine (24 January 1982). "PORNO POP FROM THE U.K.". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2009-05-10.
4. Thelen, Christopher (29 March 1998). "Cut: Golden Earring". Daily Vault. Retrieved 2009-05-10.
5. Jenkins, Mark (31 December 1993). "Bowie's Changes In Single Fashion". Washington Post. Retrieved 2009-05-10.
6. Stanley, Bob (6 August 2008). "The music the BBC banned". The Times. London. Retrieved 2009-05-10.
7. de Atley, Richard (19 December 1985). "SOME'S CLIMB TO SUCCESS TOOK A LITTLE 'IMAGINATION'". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 2009-05-10.
8. Keidis, Anthony; Sloman, Larry (2004). Scar Tissue. Hyperion. p. 182. ISBN 1-4013-0101-0.
9. MVA (22 December 2013). "Grace Jones - Slave to the Rhythm (official video reworked)". Retrieved 14 August 2016 – via YouTube.
10. HOFER, Julien AUTIER, Philippe LEZE, Guillaume DATEZ & Sarah. "Mylène Farmer - Libertine Clip - Mylene.Net - Le site référence sur Mylène Farmer". Retrieved 14 August 2016.
11. Mitchell, Wendy (20 October 1999). "What's the frequency, Michael?". Salon. Retrieved 2009-05-10.
12. Holden, Stephen (3 December 1990). "Critic's Notebook; That Madonna Video: Realities and Fantasies". New York Times. Retrieved 2009-05-12.
13. Balfour, Ian (1991). "REVOLUTIONS PER MINUTE OR THE PET SHOP BOYS FOREVER". Surfaces. Les Presses de l'Université de Montréal. I: 2. ISSN 1188-2492.
14. "MORISSETTE BARES ALL, LITERALLY". San Jose Mercury News. November 13, 2008. Retrieved 15 September 2012.
15. Coulehan, Erin (9 October 2013). "Panic at the Disco Get Racy, Recreate D'Angelo's 'Untitled'". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 19 October 2013.
16. "Lamentamos no haber venido antes". Rolling Stone (Argentina) (in Spanish). 6 April 2005. Retrieved 2009-05-10.
17. Jennifer Trevorrow (14 October 2008). "Britney Spears' Sexy Womanizer Video Is An Internet Hit". Hello! Magazine. Retrieved 15 September 2012.
18. "BLABBERMOUTH.NET - RAMMSTEIN: 'Pussy' Video Released". Roadrunnerrecords.com. Retrieved 2011-08-25.
19. Martinez, Edecio (April 2, 2010). "Erykah Badu's "Window Seat" Video May Prompt Tougher Laws". CBS News.
20. "Erykah Badu Charged For Nude 'Window Seat' Video". MTV. April 2, 2010.
21. "SLAYER 'Beauty Through Order' Video".
22. "SLAYER 'Beauty Through Order' Video Making-Of Footage".
23. "Dirty Picture (Director's Cut, Dirty Version)". Retrieved 19 August 2010.
24. Mendoza, Nadia (June 15, 2010). "Naughty Katy is a Naked Gurl". The Sun.
25. Mendoza, Nadia (July 28, 2010). "Topless girl in knky Feeder vid". The Sun.
26. "A Reddit User Dug Up the Porno Skepta Shot For His 2011 Track "All Over the House"". Highsnobiety. May 18, 2016. Retrieved August 11, 2016.
27. Gayles, Contessa (Oct 21, 2011). "Kelly Rowland Is 'Down for Whatever' in Another Racy Music Video". AOL Music.
28. "Madonna - Girl Gone Wild".
29. "Madonna - Turn Up The Radio (Explicit)".
30. RihannaVEVO (12 February 2013). "Rihanna - Stay ft. Mikky Ekko". Retrieved 14 August 2016 – via YouTube.
31. "YouTube". Retrieved 14 August 2016.
32. "Justin Timberlake - Tunnel Vision (Explicit)". Retrieved 14 August 2016.
33. Wyatt, Daisy (19 September 2013). "Miley Cyrus scores first US number one with 'Wrecking Ball'". The Independent. Archived from the original on 21 September 2013. Retrieved 21 September 2013.
34. "The Neighbourhood LITERALLY Rocks Out With C*ck Out In New NSFW Video! See The Peen HERE!". Retrieved 17 August 2016.
35. "Adam Levine Stalks Behati, Gets Naked, Bloody in Maroon 5 Video: Watch". Retrieved 14 August 2016.
36. "Watch: Adam Levine Just Got Butt Naked in Maroon 5's New Video". Retrieved 14 August 2016.
37. "Watch Tove Lo Strip Down in her 'Timebomb' Video". Retrieved 14 August 2016.
38. "Rihanna's Bitch Better Have My Money Video Is NSFW and Insane". Retrieved 14 August 2016.
39. McIntyre, Hugh. "Mike Posner's NSFW 'Be As You Are' video is a motivational comeback". Retrieved 14 August 2016.

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