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Parents outraged at Lady Gaga concert: Calls for concerts to be classified

Parents outraged at Lady Gaga concert: Calls for concerts to be classified

There’s news this morning that some parents who took their tween children to Aussie Lady Gaga concerts are gagging because of the adult nature of the concert. Rewind. Yes they are upset because a performer, renowned for her racy costumes and hybrid-burlesque-strip-show music videos, put on a concert that was probably best left to adults...

Raunchy music videos to stay: Parents outraged at prospect of having to supervise children

Some Australian parents and children organisations are outraged that the government will not implement tighter classification laws for ‘raunchy’ music videos. According to the government, there ‘was a ‘low level’ of community concern about music videos’. They also said they had no power over the Advertising Standards Board, presumably in response to calls for stricter...

You won’t see this Lady GaGa music clip on Video Hits

Let’s have some fun, this beat is sick I wanna take a ride on your disco stick Don’t think too much just bust that kick I wanna take a ride on your disco stick Lyrics like these and sexually-charged visuals is why channel Ten’s in-house censors have rated Lady GaGa’s music video for her song...

Playing the censor: Would you ban this band’s ‘violent’ photos?

MySpace said this band’s promo shoot (Click to see the photos – Not Safe For Work) was ‘too violent’ and promptly removed the offending photographs from their website. Which isn’t too unreasonable when you take into account that MySpace has strict policies on what can and can’t be published on a user’s profile. But let’s...

Kylie video pulled, may trigger seizures

The music clip for Kylie Minogue’s new track Wow has been yanked before it could air by UK communications regulator Ofcom. Not because Kylie’s strutting around in gold short shorts or flashing side-boobie (this time around she’s covered head to toe in a secondhand space suit). It’s because the Wow video does not stick to...