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| Originally Posted by Porg Nope.
One of the girls i work with has two daughters, one 6, the other 10. She came in from the garden to find the 6 year old dancing infront of the TV with her knickers pulled right up her bum (wedgie stylee) provocativley (sp) dancing to the "call on me" song (cant remember who does it) where there are scantily clad women gyrating all over the screen.
So when we ram sexuality at our children like this, we can hardly wonder why. |
I was watching Hit40UK one morning when the Khia record 'My Neck, My Back' came on. The video may have been great on TV-X at 11pm but not at 10:00am on a morning when my 4-year-old was watching.
I also listened to the 'uncut' version via iTunes. 30-seconds was enough.
In all honesty, I'm getting sick and tired of chav music with way too much compression ripping off old 80's tracks hooks and calling it music.
Remember Music for Pleasure? Maybe they should have 'Music for Chavs' now.
Anyway, so I complained to Ofcom, and they ruled in my favour!
Khia ‘My Neck, My Back’ Hit40UK, Channel 4, 23 October, 09:55 Kiss TV, 23 October Chart Show TV, 5 October, 17:05
Introduction
Seven viewers complained that the video which accompanied the track My Neck, My Back was sexually suggestive and inappropriate for the time of broadcast. The video featured three women in bikinis washing a truck while being hosed down by firemen. The complainants also considered that the track’s lyrics were unsuitable.
Response
Channel 4 said that the song had two versions. One was more explicit than the other, which was an edited ‘clean’ version made available by the record company specifically for playing pre watershed. The edited version, while suggestive, contained no lyrics unsuitable for daytime play.
Channel 4 understood that there was only one ‘clean’ video version for broadcast. In a tradition common to many music videos, and particularly to R&B, the girls in the video were scantily clad and dancing suggestively, but at no point was there any nudity or overtly sexual behaviour. Channel 4 said that the presenter of Hit40UK explained that the artist claimed the aim of the song was to sexually empower women and within this context the video could be seen as a parody of the way that scantily clad women draped over cars had been used as an image to sell products to men. Channel 4 believed that, while the video and the lyrics (in their clean version) certainly had suggestive elements to them, at no stage did they become overtly salacious or unsuitable for the time of day. The only men featured in the video were a group of fully dressed firemen hosing the girls and the car – an image which played on the idea of sexual fantasy without ever straying into material unsuitable for the time of transmission.
Emap said that it also used only the ‘clean’ version of the song. It considered that this was somewhat tamer than many other hip hop records broadcast across music television channels.
Chart Show Channels Limited replied that the video contained no nudity, intercourse or sex scenes. It considered the video suitable to show on a music channel. However, since the video did cause a viewer some concern, as a precautionary measure, it was removed from the daytime play-list and re-scheduled only to be shown after 22:00.
Decision
We accept that there was nothing in the lyrics of the ‘clean’ version of the song that made it unsuitable for daytime play. We also accept that many modern music videos, particularly for certain music genres, portray women in a way that many viewers may not approve of. Our aim when regulating programmes is to maintain a reasonable balance between viewer protection and the right to freedom of expression. In this instance, we believe that the combination of the song’s lyrics and the visuals resulted in a video that was overtly sexual in nature and was therefore unsuitable for showing at a time when young children were likely to be watching.
We welcome Chart Show TV’s decision to re-schedule the video for transmission only after 22:00 and consider that this action resolved the complaint.
Kiss TV and Hit40UK - the video was in breach of Section 1.2 (Family Viewing) Chart Show TV - resolved
(The Complaints PDF is
here )