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This is a list of nudity in music videos. The appearance of nudity in music videos has caused controversy since the early 1980s, and several explicit videos have been censored or banned. Nudity has gained wider acceptance on European television, where audiences often view nudity and sexuality as less objectionable than the depiction of violence. In contrast, 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.[1]
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Appearances of nudity in music videos
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1980s
| Year | Music video | Artist(s) | Director | Nude person(s) | Nudity description |
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| 1981 | "Girls on Film" (Uncensored version) |
Duran Duran | Godley & Creme | Female actors | Nude models "strutting" on catwalks. The video was edited for MTV play, but even in that form was controversial. [2] |
| 1981 | "Sex Dwarf" | Soft Cell | Tim Pope | Female actors and Marc Almond | Fully nude women tortured on table and covered in meat, threatened by chain-saw wielding midgets. Marc Almond runs around wearing a jockstrap (This video was confiscated by the police).[3] |
| 1982 | "Allentown" | Billy Joel | Russell Mulcahy | Male actors | Male coal miners are seen nude from behind while showering together |
| 1982 | "Twilight Zone" | Golden Earring | Dick Maas | Female actor | Topless in one scene[4] |
| 1983 | "China Girl" | David Bowie | David Bowie | David Bowie's buttocks are shown as he and Geeling Ng passionately kiss on a beach, nude.[5] | |
| 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[6][dubious ] |
| 1983 | "Morgane de toi" |
Renaud | Serge Gainsbourg | Female actor and children | A woman rides a horse topless on a beach, and a group of children runs naked |
| 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[citation needed] |
| 1984 | "The Wild Boys" (Unedited version) | Duran Duran | Russell Mulcahy | Female actors | Features bare breasts |
| 1984 | "Madam Butterfly" | Malcolm McLaren | Female actors | A nude female model is massaged by another female model. | |
| 1985 | "Imagination" | Belouis Some | Female actors | Various scenes of full-frontal nudity, shown in dream sequences.[7] | |
| 1985 | "Catholic School Girls Rule" | Red Hot Chili Peppers | Dick Rude | Female actor | Topless female dance scene.[8] |
| 1987 | "Sports Fans" | The Tubes | Fee Waybill | As the video starts, Waybill is seen nude at a dressing room | |
| 1987 | "Étienne" (Uncensored version) |
Guesch Patti | Guesch Patti | Patti performs a striptease[dubious ] | |
| 1989 | "Pop Song 89" | R.E.M. | Michael Stipe | Female dancers | 3 female dancers dance topless with an also topless Michael Stipe.[9] |
| 1989 | "Poison" | Alice Cooper | Rana Kennedy | Rana Kennedy dances topless wearing black pants. |
1990s
| Year | Music video | Artist(s) | Director | Nude person(s) | Nudity description | |
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| 1990 | "Justify My Love" | Madonna | Jean-Baptiste Mondino | Female and male actors | Depictions of sexual fetishes, including a woman who is bare-chested except for suspenders. The video was refused by MTV.[10] | |
| 1990 | "Being Boring" | Pet Shop Boys | Bruce Weber | Actor | As the video starts, a male actor is seen naked from behind while swimming and on a trampoline.[11] | |
| 1991 | "Appetite for Destruction" | 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 | ||
| 1991 | "Dis-moi Dis-moi" | Mitsou | Mitsou; Female and male actors | Female and Male Actors shown in a shower scene; Mitsou shown seated nude in a chair | ||
| 1991 | "Sin" | Nine Inch Nails | Men and Women | Pierced male and female genitalia, also topless women. | ||
| 1991 | "Be Thankful For What You Got" | Massive Attack | Female stripper | Female stripper dances and strips, showing full-frontal nudity. | ||
| 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 | ||
| 1992 | "Happiness In Slavery" | Nine Inch Nails | Bob Flanagan | Male genitals exposed | ||
| 1993 | "Sweet Harmony" | The Beloved | Singers | Male and female singers are all nude | ||
| 1993 | "Gabri" (Uncensored version) | Vasco Rossi | Actress | An actress is seen fully naked in multiple scenes | ||
| 1994 | "Closer" | Nine Inch Nails | Mark Romanek | Actress | An actress is seen fully naked in multiple scenes | |
| 1995 | "Garota Nacional" | Skank | Various Actresses | The actresses is seen making striptease | ||
| 1995 | "Poconé" | Skank | Various Actresses | |||
| 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 | Monica Bråten | Monica Bråten appears in a see-through gown and entirely naked throughout | |
| 1996 | "Fastlove" | George Michael | Vaughan Arnell & Anthea Benton | Actress | one of the actress can be seen topless about seconds. | |
| 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
| Year | Music video | Artist(s) | Director | Nude person(s) | Nudity description | |
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| 2000 | "Untitled (How Does It Feel)" | D'Angelo | Paul Hunter | D'Angelo | Appears nude as the camera angle focuses from his waist to upper torso. | |
| 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 (vulva also shown) and more are shown in thongs with bare buttocks. | ||
| 2001 | "Fiesta" | R. Kelly featuring Jay Z | Three Actresses | The three actresses are seen topless at a beach | ||
| 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 bare breasted with their vaginas shaved a completely exposed. The actresses are seen licking eachother sexually. Jadakiss is seen squeezing their breasts and butts explicitly. He is also shown stroking the vagina of one actress then fingering her. | ||
| 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 | "Superman" | Eminem featuring Dina Rae | Gina Lynn | Breast exposed quickly in two scenes | ||
| 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 featuring Lee Harvey and Vita | 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 and buttocks through the video. | |
| 2003 | "Nessaja" (Uncensored version) |
Scooter | Two Actresses | |||
| 2003 | "Weekend!" (Uncensored version) |
Scooter | Various Actresses | |||
| 2003 | "Work It" (Uncensored version) |
Nelly featuring 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 featuring G-Unit and Snoop Dogg | 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.[12][13] | ||
| 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. | ||
| 2003 | "Progenies of the Great Apocalypse" (Uncensored version) |
Dimmu Borgir | Actresses | |||
| 2004 | "Toxic" | Britney Spears | Britney Spears | The video clip is intercut with sequences of Spears with hundreds of diamonds glued to her body and wearing only a G-string. | ||
| 2004 | "Disco Inferno" | 50 Cent | Various Actresses | Several actresess are seen nude while 50 Cent is at a strip club. | ||
| 2004 | "Hennessy" | B.G. feat. Big Tymers | Various Actresses | Several actresses are seen nude strip club. | ||
| 2004 | "Ding Dong Song | Gunther | Gunther and some actress | Gunther in seen nude on the beginning, showing his buttocks uncensored. Some female actress also are shown nude, but not showing the genitalia and the breasts. | ||
| 2004 | "(s)AINT | Marilyn Manson | Asia Argento | Manson and some actress | Thoughout the video, Manson is seen naked, but only in the end his genitalia is briefly shown. Genitalia and breast of an actress are also shown. | |
| 2004 | "Shake That!" (Uncensored version) |
Scooter | Various Actresses | Actresses are seen topless. | ||
| 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. | ||
| 2005 | "L'Amour n'est rien..." | Mylène Farmer | Benoît di Sabatino and M. Liberatore | Mylène Farmer | Mylene performs a complete striptease. | |
| 2006 | "Watch Out" | Ferry Corsten | Bobbi Eden | Bobbi Eden is fully nude a few frames about 3 minutes into the video. | ||
| 2006 | "Yeah Yeah" | Bodyrox feat. Luciana (entertainer) | actresses | Several acresses showing their breasts. | ||
| 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 | "Gimme More" (uncensored version) |
Britney Spears | - | Britney Spears | In the uncensored version, Spears is topeless near the end of the video during a striptease. | |
| 2007 | "Survivalism" | Nine Inch Nails | Alex Lieu | Various Actresses | A topless woman is seen at a bathroom mirror via (simulated) security camera footage. | |
| 2007 | "Baby Love" | Nicole Scherzinger | - | Nicole Scherzinger | Scherzinger has a semi-nude appearance in the video | |
| 2007 | "Coconut Night" | We Are Wolves | Jérémie Saindon | Three actors | Two women and one men see a pagan rite and are apparently sacrificed in another ritual. Beginning and end show the three awaking nude but alive. | |
| 2008 | "Addicted" (uncensored version) |
Saving Abel | Anthony Honn | Various Actresses | Various women appear topless | |
| 2008 | "Beliy Plashchik" (uncensored version) aka White Robe |
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.[14] | |
| 2008 | "Womanizer" | Britney Spears | - | Britney Spears | Spears is nude in a scene where she is in a sauna. The scene is intercut throughout the entire video. | |
| 2008 | "Hustler" (uncensored version) |
Kano | Various Actresses | Various women appear topless | ||
| 2008 | "Gobbledigook" from the album Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust | Sigur Rós | Arni & Kinski | Various actors, actresses and band members | A mixed gender group of 10 or so young adults partake in fully nude outdoor activities which includes walking, running, dancing and swimming | |
| 2009 | "LoveGame" | Lady GaGa | Lady GaGa | Lady GaGa could be seen nude in various scenes with diamonds glued to her body, and is also seen fully nude in the arms of two men. | ||
| 2009 | "I Almost Told You That I Loved You" (uncensored version) |
Papa Roach | Colin Minihan | Unknown actress | One woman walks down the hall with her top off | |
| 2009 | "10 Miles Wide" | Escape The Fate | Various Actresses | Multiple women are seen naked on a plane, dancing with the band. see the video here http://www.playboy.com/articles/video-exclusive-escape-the-fate/index.html | ||
| 2009 | "I Gotta Feeling" (uncensored version) |
Black Eyed Peas |
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Female actress | One woman gets her top pulled down at 2:10 | |
| 2009 | "A Looking in View" | Alice in Chains | Stephen Schuster | Female actress | A woman is seen bare in her bathroom and in water. The video contains full frontal nudity of her exposed breasts. | |
| 2009 | "Leave the World Behind" | Axwell & Sebastian Ingrosso, Steve Angello, Laidback Luke |
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Female in crowd at concert | A woman is seen expossing her breats at 02:31. The video contains full frontal nudity of her exposed breasts. | |
| 2009 | "Pussy" | Rammstein | Jonas Åkerlund | Band Members, various porn models | Body-doubles of band members have hardcore sex with different women.[15] | |
| 2009 | "Undead" | Hollywood Undead | Various actresses | |||
| 2009 | "Watching the Planets" | The Flaming Lips | Wayne Coyne and George Salisbury | Wayne Coyne, Various Actors and Actresses | Scenes of nudist cyclists and fully naked young adults surrounding Wayne. Wayne is later stripped down fully nude by the nudists. |
See also
- Censorship of music
- Nudity in art
- Nudity in film
- Nudity in American television
- List of music videos with homosexual scenes
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