# Music videos going too far? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 15, 2002, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-videos-going-too-far/109224 "2002-05-15T17:48:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Nightime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Nightime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightime)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2002, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-videos-going-too-far/109224/21 "2002-05-17T06:48:51Z")
I loved that UNKLE video, it’s disturbing in a good way. The videos for “Push It”, and to a lesser extent “I Think I’m Paranoid”, both by Garbage, were the most disturbing to me. Not because I didn’t like them, but because I was young and it was the first time I had gotten certain… feelings… ---
**Author:** ![syncrolecyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f08c70/32.png) [@syncrolecyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/syncrolecyne)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2002, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-videos-going-too-far/109224/22 "2002-05-17T07:10:43Z")
I haven’t seen a music video since 1991…so this is all news to me. I usually don’t have cable and when I do, there’s not much actual music on MTV these days… (old geezer voice) Madonna’s “Like a Prayer”, “Express Yourself”, and “Justify My Love” were the cutting edge of racyness when I last followed the videos. I guess compared to whats on now, it would be sort of like seeing ladies underwear section of a Sears catalog. ---
**Author:** ![Arken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dfb087/32.png) [@Arken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arken)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2002, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-videos-going-too-far/109224/23 "2002-05-17T13:31:50Z")
This all makes me think of a Bloom County cartoon. Allow me to paraphrase Opus: You know what my favorite song was? Yesterday. It was so calming… it made me think of rainbows and porpoises. Finally they made a video of Yesterday featuring half-naked women surrounded by explosions. You know what I think of when I here Yesterday now? **HALF-NAKED EXPLODING PORPOISES!!!** ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2002, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-videos-going-too-far/109224/24 "2002-05-24T12:01:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by El Elvis Rojo \* > **The lead singer of Aphex Twin has an incredibly creepy looking face, and he’s able to keep this freaky grin going for a LOOOOOONG time. He’s also go this habit of sticking his face on everything. So, imagine if you will, the most ghetto-fied beach you’ve ever been to. Nothin but booty dancers in white bikinis, shakin’ their beautiful flab and givin’ it all they’re worth. Now, envision them with his head. Scary. As. FUCK! You can catch a glimpse of him online with a simple google search. You’ll see what I mean.** My first Google search turned up [this](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000002HOF/102-7954085-0710528). OMG. My heart jumped, and I thought, “Randall Flagg.” ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2002, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-videos-going-too-far/109224/25 "2002-05-24T12:03:59Z")
Now wait a minute! Is [this](http://www.geocities.com/alta-tensione/aphex/photo2.jpg) the same guy? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![MyFootsZZZ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/myfootszzz/32/12580_2.png) [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2002, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-videos-going-too-far/109224/26 "2002-05-25T00:58:51Z")
There was one I saw with Bjork, (I think that’s the spelling), and crap was spewing out of her nipples… I think it was a ribbon. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-videos-going-too-far/109224.md?page=1)