More on mad music videos

After my rant about Miley Cyrus and her antics (which have broken the Vevo 24 hour record with 19.3 million views!), I figured it was only fair to include the men of the music industry, since they too have hit the headlines - without the need to 'twerk' at awards ceremonies.

It all started with the release of Robin Thicke's video 'Blurred Lines' which featured several models (that I honestly felt the need to 'save' due to their entirely expressionless faces which evoked images of incredibly depressing strippers) looking almost entirely nude and extremely objectified. This video was removed from YouTube and led to numerous debates over its flagrant disregard for women and lack of artistic merit (okay so the last one is just my opinion). However, as with Miss Cyrus, this may have only helped buoy the video's success to the point at which the single spent a record number of weeks in the number 1 spot on the charts and becoming the second-biggest-selling single of the year, just behind Pharrell Williams and Daft Punk's track Get Lucky. The single's unrated video has now racked up 19,660,723 views and the edited version with 171,437,468, showing that, yet again no publicity is bad publicity.

Meanwhile, in more recent news, YouTube lifted its recent ban on Justin Timberlake's video for 'Tunnel Vision' which was deemed acceptable due to the apparent artistic merit found in a 7 minute long video of female nudity which has claimed only 7,109,262 views and is yet to grace the UK singles chart.

With the recent increase in NSFW videos, it is not a stretch to deduce that this is fast becoming a sign of the future of music videos.