Last Thursday, the Lady Gaga music video Telephone was finally released. However, soon after the video was aired, rumors arose that MTV was banning the video from being played on their station. These rumors have been squashed and are said to be false. According to Amy Doyle, an MTV Executive Vice President of Music and Talent, MTV did not ban the video. In fact she said that Friday, March 12th, the video was available to be viewed online at 12:30, and was then played on MTV at 9:30 that morning.
These rumors are said to have stemmed from a portion of CNN the Sunday after the video was released when Fredricka Whitfield and Jacqui Jeras discussed it.
I'm not sure why MTV would ever ban a music video by Lady Gaga. Yes she can very suggestive and have explicit lyrics but so are plenty other artiest that MTV features. I watched the premiere of this video on E!, and I would definitely say that it has strong content, but nothing worth banning over. Especially with MTV's standards.
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HAHA agreeed, Lady Gaga is a little over the top on explicit lyrics but than again have you heard Rhiana's new song "Rude Boy" because that's probably one of the dirtiest female songs I have heard on the radio.
ReplyDeleteAnyways MTV's standards for anything has always been pretty low so it wouldn't surprise me if the video was extremely erotic and controversial. I just don't see MTV pulling a video from veiw, because they can always play it on late night.