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The appearance of nudity in music videos has caused controversy since the late 1970s, 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.


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Appearances of nudity in music videos

1970s

Year Music video Artist(s) Director Nude Template:Nowrap Nudity description
1978 "Bicycle Race"
(Uncensored version)
Queen Unknown Female actors 65 naked women racing bicycles at Wimbledon. The video was edited for commercial release.

1980s

Year Music video Artist(s) Director Nude Template:Nowrap Nudity description
1981 "Girls on Film"
(Uncensored version)
Duran Duran Godley & Creme Female actors Partially nude models "strutting" on catwalks. The video was edited for MTV play, but even in that form was controversial.
1981 "Sports Fans" The Tubes Fee Waybill As the video starts, Waybill is seen nude at a dressing room.
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).
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.
1982 "The Chauffeur" Duran Duran Ian Emes Female actor Perri Lister wearing an open-bust corset dances topless in an underground parking lot.
1983 "China Girl" David Bowie 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.
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 run naked.
1983 "Cargo de nuit"
Axel Bauer Jean-Baptiste Mondino Female actor A woman dances naked in a shower of nebulized water
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.Template: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.
1984 "Girls" (Explicit version) Dwight Twilley Female and male actors Football players and cheerleaders spy on each other in locker room showers. A tamer version using slightly different footage without nudity was also made.
1984 "Gimme Gimme Good Lovin'" Helix Female actors In a parody of beauty pageants, several topless porn stars dance with the band on stage. Among them is a 16-year-old Traci Lords
1984 "Gymnasium" Stephen Cummings Female actors Stephen Cummings has a shower with two topless women. A topless body builder also features.
1985 "Imagination" Belouis Some Female actors Full-frontal nudity in dream sequences.
1985 "Catholic School Girls Rule"Red Hot Chili PeppersDick RudeFemale actorTopless female dance scene.
1987 "Girls, Girls, Girls"
(Uncensored version)
Motley Crue Wayne Isham Female dancers Topless stripclub employees.
1987 "Étienne"
(Uncensored version)
Guesch Patti Guesch Patti Patti performs a striptease.Template:Dubious
1987 "Boys (Summertime Love)" Sabrina Salerno Sabrina Salerno Sabrina's bikini top repeatedly slides down revealing her nipples
1989 "Pop Song 89" R.E.M. Michael Stipe Female dancers 3 female dancers dance topless with an also topless Michael Stipe.
1989 "Poison" Alice Cooper Rana Kennedy Model Rana Kennedy appears topless.

1990s

Year Music video Artist(s) Director Nude Template:Nowrap Nudity description
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.
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.
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 "Primal Scream"
(Uncensored version)
Motley Crue Matt MahurinFemale actor Female dancing, showing full-frontal nudity.
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.
1993 "Om natten" Kayo Singer Kayo is completely nude in a studio while singing this song, sitting down.
1994 "Closer" Nine Inch Nails Mark Romanek Actress An actress is seen fully naked in multiple scenes.
1994 "Put 'Em on the Glass!" Sir Mix-A-Lot Various actresses Various actresses are seen topless throughout the video. Some women are seen from the back in thongs.
1995 "Garota Nacional" Skank Various actresses Numerous women dancing topless.
1995 "Poconé" Skank Various actresses Numerous women dancing topless.
1996 "How Do U Want It"
(Uncensored version)
2Pac featuring K-Ci and JoJo Ron Hightower Various actresses Many dancers topless and several fully nude.
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.
1998 "Thank U" Alanis Morissette Alanis Morissette Morissette stands on street corners, takes public transportation and goes grocery shopping in the nude (her breasts are covered by her hair and her vulva is blurred out).
1998 "Fly Away" Lenny Kravitz Paul Hunter A girl in the crowd dancing topless is shown briefly several times.
1999 "From the Cradle to Enslave" Cradle of Filth Alex Chandon Female actors
1999 "What's My Age Again?" Blink 182 Marcos Siega Blink 182 Mark Hoppus, Tom Delonge and Travis Barker are seen throughout the video running around in the nude.
1999 "Metal Fingers in My Body" Add N to (X) Filipe Alçada, Hotessa Laurence, Susi Wilkinson Animated woman An animated woman has phone sex with a robot and gets carried away.

2000s

Year Music video Artist(s) Director Nude Template:Nowrap Nudity description
2000 "Plug Me In" Add N to (X) Barry 7 Layla Jade & Andrea Spinks (aka Pixie) Features these two porn actresses nude and playing with sex toys.
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 skin and muscles from his body.
2000 "Dance Tonight" Lucy Pearl Sidney Faison Dawn Robinson Dawn Robinson is constantly shown topless in front of a bedroom mirror, although only nudity above the nipples is seen.
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 "Playmate of the Year"
(Uncensored version)
Zebrahead Topless Playmates Various Playboy Playmates are shown topless.
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 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 "Superman" Eminem 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 "Kiss Kiss"
(director's cut)
Holly Valance Holly Valance Valance appears with only lights covering her breasts and vulva.
2002 "Yesterday" Left Out Corey Petryschuk Petryschuk appears naked, running in the street, as he sings the chorus.
2002 "Fuel for Hatred" Satyricon Jonas Åkerlund Amina Axelsson 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).
2002 "Cocoon" Björk Eiko Ishioka Björk Bjork apparently is fully naked. Just move her arms and head, while playing with a red threads of elastic appearance (created digitally), which completely covers her body (like a cocoon) at the end of the video and suspended her in the air.
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 Two girls dancing topless in bath tub.
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 "P-Poppin'"
(Uncensored version)
Ludacris featuring Shawnna and Lil Fate Various actresses In the uncensored version, female actresses are seen dancing nude. Ludacris is seen smacking the backsides of several actresses in very sexual poses. Some of these actresses are exposing their vaginal area.
2003 "Protège-Moi" Placebo Gaspar Noé 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.
2003 "Progenies of the Great Apocalypse"
(Uncensored version)
Dimmu Borgir Actresses
2003 "The Last High" The Dandy Warhols Actress Actress appearing as the Devil appears near the end of the video. Breasts shown, but vulva blurred out.
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 "Everytime" Britney Spears David LaChapelle Britney Spears During the bathtub scenes, Spears was naked, but the water covered most of her body.
2004 "Disco Inferno" 50 Cent Various actresses Several actresess are seen nude while 50 Cent is at a strip club.
2004 "Hennessy" B.G. featuring 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 Throughout 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 Mylène performs a complete striptease.
2005 "One Night in Bangkok" Vinylshakerz Various female models Various women are seen topless.
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 featuring Luciana Actresses Several actresses 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 "New Dark Ages" Bad Religion Unknown actress For a split second, a topless woman can be seen, what looks like, masturbating. Her breasts are censored by a black bar.
2007 "Gimme More"
(uncensored version)
Britney Spears Jake Sarfaty Britney Spears In the uncensored version, Spears is topless near the end of the video during a striptease.
2007 "Piece of Me"
(uncensored version)
Britney Spears Wayne Isham An actress In the uncensored version, an actress' derrière is shown in the video.
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.
2007 "Everybody Jumping" Dj Boyko and Sound Shocking Various girls Various girls are seen dancing topless on the beach - a common feature of beaches across Europe.
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.
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.
2008 "So What" Pink Pink In one scene from the music video, Pink takes off her jacket, revealing her nude body. Her buttocks and her breasts are censored with a black bar.
2008 "Undead" Hollywood Undead Jonas Åkerlund Various actresses Various girls are seen topless performing sexual acts on a few of the band members as well as on other topless girls.
2008 "Toe Jam" The Brighton Port Authority featuring David Byrne and Dizzee Rascal Keith Schofield Various actresses This video uses the censor bars to form figures on the screen.
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.
2009 "I Gotta Feeling"
(uncensored version)
The Black Eyed Peas
-
Female actress One woman gets her top pulled down at 2:10.
2009 "A Looking in View" Alice in ChainsStephen SchusterFemale actress A woman is seen bare in her bathroom and in water.
2009 "Leave the World Behind" Axwell & Sebastian Ingrosso, Steve Angello, Laidback Luke
-
Female in crowd at concert A woman is seen expossing her breasts at 02:31.
2009 "Pussy" Rammstein Jonas Åkerlund Band members, various porn models Body-doubles of band members have hardcore sex with different women.
2009 "Lessons Learned" Matt and Kim Matt Johnson and Kim Schifino Shots of Johnson and Schifino stripping while walking down Times Square.
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.
2009 "Community Property" (uncensored version) Steel Panther Various actresses Many actresses seen topless though out video.
2009 "Want" Natalie Imbruglia Diane Martel Natalie Imbruglia Natalie herself is taking pictures of herself topless on the floor. No frontal nudity.
2009 "Bad Romance" Lady Gaga Francis Lawrence Lady Gaga Lady Gaga gets topless in a tub when two women takes off her clothes, then she is shown nude backlit from from behind. No frontal nudity.
2009 "LoveGame" Lady Gaga Joseph Kahn Lady Gaga Lady Gaga is fully nude on a bench with two men in their underwear. She has rhinestones and body paint all over her. No frontal nudity.
2009 "Undead" Hollywood Undead Various actresses Many actresses seen topless though out video.

2010s

Year Music video Artist(s) Director Nude Template:Nowrap Nudity description
2010 "Telephone" Lady Gaga featuring Beyonce Jonas Akerlund & Lady Gaga Lady Gaga Lady Gaga get stripped by two officers in jail.
2010 "Kids In Love" Mayday Parade Various actors and actresses. The actors and actresses are nude throughout the video.
2010 "Window Seat (song)" Erykah Badu Coodie Rock Erykah Badu Badu strips during the video and walks around at the site of John F. Kennedy's assassination.
2010 "Beauty Through Order" Slayer Ben Hibon Charlie Mayhew In the music video, a nude woman emerges from a black liquid (presumably oil) and there are brief shots of her breasts and buttocks.
2010 "Dirty Picture" Taio Cruz ft Ke$ha Female Actress In the Dirty Version of the music video, bare breasts are shown one time as a stripper spins around a pole around 2:31.
2010 "Calma Pueblo" Calle 13 People starts to undress and running nude.
2010 "California Gurls" Katy Perry Matthew Cullen Katy Perry Perry during her first chorus of the song is seen fully nude lying down on a cotton candy created cloud. Her buttocks are covered by a layer of cloud going over the area for decency. She is shown on the cloud several more times in the video.
2010 "Renegades" Feeder Female actress Same character as seen in the "Call Out" video, destroys the band's dressing rooms while they are rehearsing nearby and also takes her frustrations out on other people. She is seen topless in the video which is not censored
2010 "Bombay" El Guincho
2010 "Twin Flames" Klaxons The Band members, various actresses. The band members are involved in an orgy with several women. As the video progresses their body parts begin to fuse.
2010 "Tonight (I'm Fuckin' You)" Enrique Iglesias Various actresses. Near the beginning female strippers are seen topless and Iglesias is shown in bed with many topless women.
2010 "Turn It Up!" Sonic Syndicate Amina Axelsson Dancing topless and crushing the bandmembers skulls in the end.
2011 "All Over the House" Skepta Explicit depictions of intercourse throughout the video.
2011 "Ihmisixsixsix" Turmion Kätilöt Various topless actresses The video was removed from YouTube due to this "offending material". As a response, the band directed a brand new video, featuring behind-the-scenes and off-stage material with numerically even more explicit content, censored by pixelation.
2011 "Yoü and I" Lady Gaga Haus of GaGa Lady Gaga and Taylor Kinney Lady Gaga is topless in two scenes. One is in a water room, and the other is in a tub of water as a mermaid. Her nipples are pasted over. She has sex with Taylor Kinney in the bathtub. He gets completely naked, rear shown. No frontal nudity.
2011 "Never Forget" Lena Katina Yulia Volkova Former t.A.T.u band mate Yulia Volkova is seen totally naked, laying on a mortuary slab in uncensored version.
2011 "Moves Like Jagger" Maroon 5 feat. Christina Aguilera Jonas Akerlund Various dancers The explicit version has female frontal nudity (flashes of naked female breasts, one shown in 2:50 of the video)
2011 "Get Away" Yuck Michael Reich Female actress A girl stands naked in the entire clip and is tied and gagged, and drizzled with honey at the end of this. Full frontal nudity.
2011 "Shook Down" Yuck Michael Reich / Forrest Borie Various A series of cutouts of bodies of people, including male and female genitalia.
2011 "Changes" Stars Jaron Albertin Nude woman dances in building resembling art museum.
2011 "In the City" Lauri Ylönen Many nude strippers topless and entirely naked.

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