Should pop videos be 'age' rated?

[MontyVeda]

Annie Lennox is calling for the same rating system we use for film classification to be applied to music videos...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-24432329

...and i think she's right. As far as i understand, music videos are exempt from classification but can be very explicit, especially with 'suggestive sexual' content.

What think you lot?

 

[Fnaar]

I'm no prude, but I think dads in particular should be required to vet Rihanna's videos, in private.

Serious answer: yes, some are rather more explicit than parents might expect.

 

[swee'pea99]

I think it's an excellent idea - sort of quality control, to help all those horny 13 year olds get straight to the good stuff.

Honestly, what a load of toot. The idea that anything along these lines will have any impact on anything is risible. It's like that absurd button that comes up on iplayer: 'This content includes naughty language. Are you over 16?' As if any 14 year old is going to click 'no'.

For good or for ill, the genie's out of the bottle. Live with it.

 

[MontyVeda]

I don't think it'll make a huge amount of difference, given the availability of material on the inter web. I agree with her sentiment, though

I think it would make a huge difference. Take Miley Cyrus for example and her teeny bop target audience... would she rather make a music video that would be shown on prime time/day time kids TV channels, or one that would only be shown after some watershed? I think she'd rather tone down the video in favour of getting it shown to her target teeny bop fan base on main stream daytime TV.

 

[MontyVeda]

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Honestly, what a load of toot.

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would you agree that we should get rid of age ratings altogether?

 

[Fnaar]

Take Miley Cyrus for example

Her 'wrecking ball' vid was sponsored by Kleenex

 

[swee'pea99]

would you agree that we should get rid of age ratings altogether?

What I'm saying is it doesn't make a blind bit of difference what 'we' do. I'm sure the broadcasters have their own more or less formal guidelines on what they broadcast when, but the idea that any ratings system is going to stop kids seeing what they want to see is laughable. It reminds me of a story I was told once about how kids were making pocket money by opening child-proof pill bottles for local OAPs.

 

[MontyVeda]

What I'm saying is it doesn't make a blind bit of difference what 'we' do.
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So would you agree that we should get rid of age ratings altogether?

 

[Licramite]

I don't mind the sex but must we endure the pretentious rap videos that have all learnt their vocabulary from ali-G.
I figured ,like my next door neighbours dogs, I would outlive them. - but no , the same boring rap is still be churned out (the dogs have died thank god for small mercies) with the same big arsed big titted dumb women bouncing around stupid black guys.

 

[Linford]

I'm no prude, but I think dads in particular should be required to vet Rihanna's videos, in private.

Serious answer: yes, some are rather more explicit than parents might expect.

I think Kleenex would put up some resistance

 

[Linford]

[QUOTE 2698121, member: 1314"]I do, yes, and educate kids to be sexually literate, contextualise the content, and come to their own conclusions.[/quote]


Many youngsters for whatever reason are not able to apply an objective POV due to lack of maturity. Sexual relationships ori nteractions at that level are so much more than the physical act.

 

[marinyork]

So would you agree that we should get rid of age ratings altogether?

I see Annie Lennox's point of view (and several others who have commented on Miley Cyrus the last few weeks), but I would be worried that it would lead to the type of PEGI scenario we've seen in computer games (to which there seemed to be a great deal of confusion about on these pages). On that very question with computer games, yes, I would happily go back to the BBFC parallel legally non-enforceable system on games or even no system.

 

[Licramite]

[QUOTE 2698123, member: 1314"]What about white cod rock?[/quote]
jus cos they aint black don't mean they ain't black.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

[QUOTE 2698054, member: 259"]

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I like that song!

 

[biggs682]

i think they should be age rated