Regulation in music videos

The BBFC is on organisation who specialise in the control of music video content. Such content like the representation of religions, races, drugs and sexually explicit material. Restrictions are put in place to stop people of a young age to stop viewing the material, if the content in the video is deemed to be unsuitable by the BBFC. Recent events involving music videos have led to the government and organisations like The BBFC to be more aware and pay more attention to the content displayed in some music videos, for example, the sexualisation of people in music videos, and how easy it is for people of a young age to access this sort of material. This government interest has resulted in the video recordings act that should restrict how easily available children can view explicit content. Although the government and BBFC have paid more attention to such matters, explicit content is still released in music videos on a regular basis. Also, although these regulations are in place, it is still very easy for people to view explicit content, for example on YouTube, for some explicit content to be viewed, a person must confirm their age by signing into their account stating they are 18, such an account can be created with no insight into the persons age and the person can just lie. Thus, regulation over the internet is a very difficult matter to handle.

A notable music video which stirred up a lot of controversy due to it's explicit content was 'Blurred Lines' by Robin Thicke. This video contained sexually explicit content, and thus a regulated version was released which covered the areas which were deemed explicit.

Here is the regulated version of the song 'Blurred Lines' by Robin Thicke. The 'Unrated' version had to be taken off of YouTube and is only available to be watched on the official Vevo website.