Youtube has recently put an open public viewing ban on Madonna's video of the song 'Girl Gone Wild' and asked the singers team to edit certain parts before submitting it back for public viewing!It's reported that to ensure a lift on the ban, Madonna's team are currently working to edit out all shots of bare bottoms and a particular scene of simulated masturbation.
Putting aside who is a fan of Madonna and who is not one needs to remember that in banning artistic expression some quarter of USA is not that far behind Iranian Mullahs!Long before the ban on Rushdie's 'Satanic Verses' US authorities brought charges against Allen Ginsberg's book of poetry, 'Howl' !We remeber American courts again and again dragging Larry Flynt over obscene publicattion and him shouting in one of the court, ''"Fuck this court!" and calling the justices "nothing but eight assholes and a token cunt" referring to then Justice Sandra Day O'Connor!Chief Justice Warren E. Burger had him arrested for contempt of court, but the charge was later dismissed.
We see Snoop Dogg or Puff Daddy with their harem of half naked women suggesting all sorts of erotica, there we don't mind them reaching the under 18!When a Madonna does the same, one of us claim to be our representative and put an over 18 age tag on a music video.We forgot to be subjective here, the accomplishments of worlds all time number one female recording artist's get blurred with social conditioning!
A representative at YouTube stated about the Madonna ban: "While we don't comment on individual videos, we review all videos flagged by our users against our community guidelines. In some cases we restrict flagged material that, while not in violation of those guidelines, contains images that may be unsuitable for younger users."
In a recent Facebook chat with Jimmy Fallon, the 53-year-old singer said on the Youtube ban on her song, 'Girl Gone Wild" : ''I'm supposed to be a girl gone wild in the video! How could you go wild and not grind? This is the question that people should be asking."
Madonna's publicist Liz Rosenberg described the ban as proving that "some things never change", and cited MTV's ban of the star's 'Justify My Love' video in 1990.
Larry Flynt was acquitted in American supreme court after being charged for the famous abuse"nothing but eight assholes...."!At 53 Madonna, born Madonna Louise Ciccone (chi-KOH-nay) on August 16, 1958, has still got the power to stir up the 'asshole male chauvinism''!' Girl Gone Wild'' video could be seen from the angle of 'Token Cunt' if one prefers that way and the same time it is a very powerful symbolization of gay liberation and female empowerment.
Choyon
27/03/12
Brittany
''Girl Gone Wild' video link with the Youtube age ban notice:
