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The portrayal of nudity in music videos, either of explicit and non-explicit nature, has always been a controversial topic. Nudity has gained wider acceptance in the European television, where in contrast to their American counterparts the audience perceive nudity and sexuality as less objectionable than the depiction of violence. 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.
This is a list containing the portraits of nudity in some famous music videos.
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Portrait of nudity in music videos
1980s
| Year | Music video | Artist(s) | Director | Nude person(s) | Nudity description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | "Girls on Film" | Duran Duran | Godley & Creme | Female actors | Depictions of several sexual fetishes through the whole video; video also displays bare breasts and a closeup of a nipple being iced erect. |
| 1981 | "Sex Dwarf" | Soft Cell | Tim Pope | Female actors | Fully nude women tortured on tables and covered in meat, threatened by chain-saw wielding midgets. (This video was confiscated by the police) |
| 1982 | "Allentown" | Billy Joel | Male actors | Male coal miners are seen nude from behind while showering together | |
| 1982 | "Twilight Zone" | Golden Earring | Female actor | Topless in one scene | |
| 1983 | "China Girl" | David Bowie | David Bowie's buttocks are shown as he and Geeling Ng passionately kiss on a beach, nude. | ||
| 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 |
| 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 female model is shown nude being massaged by another female model. | |
| 1985 | "Imagination" | Belouis Some | Female actors | Various scenes of full-frontal nudity, shown in dream sequences. | |
| 1987 | "Sports Fan" | The Tubes | Fee Waybill | As the video starts, Waybill is seen nude at a dressing room | |
| 1987 | "I Want Your Sex" | George Michael | Kathy Jeung | Kathy Jeung quickly shows her buttocks at the end of the video | |
| 1987 | "Étienne" (Uncensored version) |
Guesch Patti | Guesch Patti | Patti performs a striptease | |
| 1989 | "Pop Song 89" | R.E.M. | Michael Stipe | Female dancers | |
| 1989 | "Poison" | Alice Cooper | Rana Kennedy | showing her breasts and wearing nothing but a pair of black pants | |
| 1983 | "Morgane de toi" |
Renaud | A group af kids running naked during all the video |
1990s
| Year | Music video | Artist(s) | Director | Nude person(s) | Nudity description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | "Justify My Love" | Madonna | Jean-Baptiste Mondino | Female and male actors | Depictions of sexual fetishes; the breast of an actress is quickly seen |
| 1990 | "Being Boring" | Pet Shop Boys | Bruce Weber | Actor | As the video starts, a male actor is seen naked from behind |
| 1991 | "Appetite for Destruction (Long Version" | 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 | "Do What U Like" | Take That | Take That | Band-members are seen nude from the behind | |
| 1992 | "Erotica" (Uncensored version) |
Madonna | Fabien Baron | Sex book models | Making of the Sex book |
| 1992 | "Only if You Want It" (Uncensored version) |
Eazy-E | Actress | Girl's breast is exposed after she's hosed down | |
| 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 and JoJo | Ron Hightower | Various Actresses | Some dancers at a strip club may be nude in the background |
| 1996 | "Mother North" | Satyricon | Sigurd Wongraven | Actress | An actress appears in a see-through gown and entirely naked throughout |
| 1997 | "Smack My Bitch Up" | The Prodigy | Jonas Åkerlund | Teresa May, various actresses | Teresa May portrays a stripper and is seen fully nude. Several actresses appear topless in a strip club |
| 1998 | "Turn the Page" | Metallica | Ginger Lynn Allen | Ginger Lynn Allen plays a stripper and a prostitute who is also a single mom. She shows full nudity. | |
| 1999 | "What's My Age Again?" | Blink 182 | Marcos Siega | Blink 182 | Tom Delonge, Mark Hoppus, and Travis Barker are seen throughout the video running around in the nude. |
2000s
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| Year | Music video | Artist(s) | Director | Nude person(s) | Nudity description |
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| 2001 | "Fiesta" | R. Kelly featuring Jay Z | Three Actresses | topless at a beach | |
| 2000 | "Rock DJ" | Robbie Williams | Vaughan Arnell | Robbie Williams | Robbie Williams takes off his clothes to get the attention of a group of girls in a roller disco. When this doesn't work, he strips the flesh and muscles from his body. |
| 2000 | "Bohemian Like You" | Dandy Warhols | 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. | |
| 2000 | "Wobble, Wobble" | 504 Boyz | Various Actresses | Various actresses are shown fully nude (genitalia also shown) and more are shown in thongs with bare buttocks. | |
| 2001 | "Pagan Poetry" | Björk | Nick Knight | Björk | Björk wears a dress designed by Alexander McQueen, which covers only the lower portion of her body. The video also contains a nipple being pierced |
| 2001 | "Knock Yourself Out" | Jadakiss | Various Actresses | Various actresses are shown fully nude (genitalia also shown) and performing sexual acts on each other and Jadakiss. | |
| 2001 | "Hey Baby" | No Doubt | Dave Meyers | Adrian Young | Drummer Adrian Young performs artistic gymnastics naked by way of a dare at a bar. He flips in the air and exposes frontal and rear nudity. |
| 2002 | "Girls of Summer" (Latin American / European version) |
Aerosmith | Actor | An actor is seen nude when a girl pulls his pants down to humiliate him. | |
| 2002 | "Lapdance" (uncensored version) |
N*E*R*D | 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 | "Fuel for Hatred" | Satyricon | Jonas Åkerlund | Actress | In the song's refrain, a bruised and naked woman is shown (with genital close-ups), a snake on top of her body, with Satyr standing to the side swinging an axe towards her (although it's not shown hitting her). |
| 2003 | "We Want to Be Free" | D.J. Peran | Three Actresses | Three women in bikinis wash a man's car, eventually going topless | |
| 2003 | "Tip Drill" (Uncensored version) |
Nelly | Solomite | Various Actresses | Several actresses are seen exposing their breasts, buttocks, and vaginas through the whole video. |
| 2003 | "Work It" (Uncensored version) |
Nelly & Justin Timberlake | Two Actresses | In the uncensored version, two Playmates appear completely naked on a tennis court with Nelly. | |
| 2003 | "P.I.M.P." (Uncensored version) |
50 Cent | Various Actresses | In the uncensored version, female actresses are seen dancing topless. | |
| 2003 | "Protège-Moi" | Placebo | 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. | |
| 2003 | "Come Undone" | Robbie Williams | 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. | |
| 2004 | "Disco Inferno" | 50 Cent | Various Actresses | Several actresess are seen nude while 50 Cent is at a strip club. | |
| 2004 | "Hennessy" | BG feat. Big Tymers | Various Actresses | Several actresses are seen nude strip club. | |
| 2004 | "Stupidisco" (Uncensored version) |
Junior Jack | Two Actresses | In the final part of the video, the two female wrestlers pull off each other's bikinis while fighting, and both then fondle each other and dance naked until the song ends. | |
| 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 | "Survivalism" | Nine Inch Nails | Alex Lieu | Various Actresses | A topless woman is seen at a bathroom mirror via (simulated) security camera footage. |
| 2007 | "Men's Needs" | The Cribs | Actress | A fully naked woman walks around during the video, cutting off front man Ryan Jarman's head. | |
| 2008 | "Beliy Plashchik" (uncensored version) |
t.A.T.u. | James Cox | Lena Katina & Julia Volkova | Lena Katina is seen lying fully naked on a bed with breasts exposed. Julia Volkova is seen showering with her breasts visible.. |
| 2008 | "Addicted" (uncensored version) |
Saving Abel | Anthony Honn | Various Actresses | Various actresses appear topless |
| 2008 | "Hustler" (uncensored version) |
Kano | topless women | ||
| 2008 | I don't care | Fall Out Boy | Joe Thorman | Guitarist Joe Thorman is seen flashing people throughout the video |
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