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1. Aerosmith - Janie's Got A Gun (Official Music Video) Rape & incest, forced to change lyrics for MTV & the radio. Original link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqQn2ADZE1A
Story: https://ultimateclassicrock.com/aerosmith-janies-got-a-gun/
Excerpt:
“I heard the rough cut of ‘Janie’ just after they’d recorded it,” the music veteran recalled in the band's autobiography, Walk This Way. “I knew it was a big hit, certainly one of Tyler’s best moments as a songwriter. It was a work of art, a masterpiece and so bizarre. He went berserk when I told him it wouldn’t get played on commercial radio with the word ‘rape’ in it. He didn’t want to take it out and there was a fight.”
The music exec got his wish. A line that originally said “He raped a little bitty baby” was changed to “He jacked a little bitty baby.” The lyric “put a bullet in his brain” would also be amended on the radio edit.
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2. Metallica: Turn the Page (Official Music Video) Prostitution & kids.
Original link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPOTEs_yTJo
Story: https://www.mtv.com/news/509766/metallica-paint-dark-portrait-in-new-video/
Excerpt:
SUPERSTAR ROCKERS' CLIP ABOUT A PROSTITUTE FOR BOB SEGER COVER STRIKES SOME AS OBJECTIONABLE.
ARCHIVE-COLIN-DEVENISH
11/25/1998
The video for "Turn the Page" (RealAudio excerpt), the first single from Garage Inc. -- Metallica's album of cover versions released Tuesday (Nov. 24) -- follows a day in the life of a woman who works as a stripper by day and a prostitute by night. Her daughter, who waits patiently backstage as her mother dances, also is in one scene, where she is depicted sleeping in an adjoining room as her mother turns tricks.
Directed by Jonas Âkerlund, whose work with electronica artist Prodigy on their video for "Smack My Bitch Up" drew heavy fire from women's-rights groups last year, the clip's more disturbing moments come when the woman is beaten by one of her johns and then is comforted by her daughter.
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3. Korn - Freak On a Leash (Official Video) I interpretted this as a reference to stray bullets killing people. Korn has a different perspective.
Original link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRGrNDV2mKc
Story: https://www.thefader.com/2018/08/14/korn-freak-leash-oral-history
Excerpt:
The definitive oral history of Korn’s “Freak On A Leash”
By NM Mashurov
Paired with an iconic video of a bullet hurtling through the suburbs in slow-motion, it spent three months in the top ten on Total Request Live before being retired, eventually winning the band a Grammy and two MTV Video Music Awards statues.
Jonathan: [I wrote “Freak On A Leash” about] the music industry, entertainment in general — how the machine worked. The label, management, publishers, everything that it involved. Looking back on it, “Something takes a part of me” was [about how] they were taking the fun [out] of making music and making it a business.
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4. Korn - Falling Away from Me (Official Video) Child abuse.
Original link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2s3iGpDqQpQ
Story: https://www.songfacts.com/facts/korn/falling-away-from-me
Excerpt:
Korn lead singer Jonathan Davis said: "The song is about domestic abuse and that there are ways to get help. Whether it's telling someone or calling a help line, there are ways to get out of those situations. No one has to be treated like that."
Limp Bizkit's Fred Durst directed the video, whose concept was a teen coping with domestic abuse.
According to Pop-Up video, MTV had a problem with the beating part. They wouldn't allow Korn to show any direct contact.
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5. Pharrell's "Happy" in ASL by Deaf Film Camp at CM7 Deaf "music".
Original link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3KSKS3TTbc&t=38s
2,433,315 views Aug 13, 2014
CM7 Deaf Film Camp
This video is an ASL interpretation of Pharrell Williams's "Happy." An expression of music in ASL composed by Rosa Lee Timm and Azora Telford. The video was produced by a team of Deaf campers & staff from Deaf Film Camp 2014 at Camp Mark Seven.
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6. 2Pac - Brenda's Got A Baby (Official Music Video) Child rape, babies in dumpsters.
Original link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRWUs0KtB-I&list=PLWSQb3DoMIbpNqJLGLJNlsZ7Hgo2ItC99&index=5
Story: https://www.nytimes.com/1991/03/28/nyregion/baby-saved-from-compactor-where-mother-12-says-she-put-him.html
By James C. McKinley Jr.
Excerpt:
The maintenance workers heard the baby's cries about 9:45 A.M...Detectives said the mother was a 12-year-old girl who admitted that she had thrown the baby down a trash chute shortly after birth...(baby survived)
