One of the most controversial music videos of all time is The Prodigy's 'Smack my b**** up'. It was voted the most controversial music video every to be shown on MTV. Directed by Dane Jonas Akerlund in 1997 the video follows a man starting to get ready for a night out then follows his 'activities' while he is out. The video contains excessive drug use, drink driving, nudity and sex. All of these activities performed in the video resulted in being banned by the BBC upon its release. Because it was such a highly controversial video upon its release it gathered a great deal of attention from people as well as the media. With the help of the high amounts of publicity surrounding this video it helped launch the directors career who has gone on to greater heights producing videos for Lady Gaga and Madonna.
Another more recent music video which caused a lot of controversy was the video to Elastic heart by Sia. Throughout the video there are two people dancing suggestively in a cage very intimately throwing each other around a cage in skin colored leotards and pants. This is surprisingly dark as the two actors used in the video are Shia LaBeouf age 28 and the girl is Maddie Ziegler who is only 12 years old. This caused uproar among some audiences because of her age and the content of the video especially because of her age and her lack of clothing, not to mention LaBeouf being over twice her age. Some critics claim that the video has a paedophilic overtone despite the artist saying that she believed those two actors to be the only ones suitable for the roles and that she didn't mean to offend anyone.
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