YouTube brought sexy back – but not without a warning label.
Justin Timberlake’s new music video for “Tunnel Vision,” the third single off The 20/20 Experience, was originally removed from YouTube hours after its debut last Wednesday for its female nudity. However, YouTube recently rereleased the video with a warning message prompt that asks users to confirm their age before viewing.
The video, following in the footsteps of Robin Thicke’s racy “Blurred Lines” video, features countless images of scantily clad women, allowing the viewer to focus on little else – hence the song title, we imagine? While Justin remains fully clothed throughout the video, the topless women leave little to the imagination as they dance in clouds of smoke throughout the seven-minute video. Justin’s face is even superimposed on the models’ bodies in several of the scenes.
“While our Guidelines generally prohibit nudity, we make exceptions when it is presented in an educational, documentary or artistic context and take care to add appropriate warnings and age-restrictions,” a spokesperson for Google explained to ABC news.
When did the line become blurred between sexy and sexually explicit? When did the routine objectification of the female body become “art”? What do you think, collegiettes: is JT’s new video artistic or misogynistic? Sound off below!
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