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Timberlake’s Explicit Tunnel Vision Gets Pass on YouTube
Written by Trip // July 06, 2013 // Hollywood Sausage, Latest News, Sic Vids, Tha Drop, The 9ine
(CelebNMusic247-News) Timberlake’s Explicit Tunnel Vision Gets Pass on YouTube
This seems to be a bit of favortism, because Google has decided that YouTube will continue to host Justin Timberlake‘s rather NSFW “Tunnel Vision” video, despite guidelines that generally prohibit nudity.
Here is what a Google spokesman said to ABC News:
“[W]e make exceptions when it is presented in an educational, documentary or artistic context, and take care to add appropriate warnings and age-restrictions.”
Funny how that works with their since Google is the first to stop a sites advertisement campaigns because of R rated material.
Here is the drop according to Idolator:
Timberlake’s hypnotizing (sorry) “Tunnel Vision” video, featuring female nudity and a fully clothed Timberlake, is now marked “(Explicit)” on YouTube and prompted by a warning that it can be “potentially offensive or inappropriate.” This new warning comes after YouTube banned the uncensored version of Robin Thicke‘s“Blurred Lines” video just days after its release, also thanks to its female nudity.
“Most nudity is not allowed, particularly if it is in a sexual context. Generally if a video is intended to be sexually provocative, it is less likely to be acceptable for YouTube,” the Google spokesman said to ABC. Google did not elaborate, though, on exactly how or why Timberlake’s “Tunnel Vision” video presented naked breasts in an “educational,” “documentary” or “artistic” context.
But as discussions revolving around Thicke’s “Blurred Lines” proved, these guidelines tend to be incredibly subjective anyway. “Blurred Lines” director Diane Martel thought the video achieved a role reversal of sorts. (“I wanted to deal with the misogynist, funny lyrics in a way where the girls were going to overpower the men,” she said in Grantland.) Meanwhile, Thicke didn’t.
“People say, ‘Hey, do you think this is degrading to women?’ I’m like, ‘Of course it is. What a pleasure it is to degrade a woman. I’ve never gotten to do that before. I’ve always respected women,’” the Blurred Lines singer said to GQ. (Apparently he was joking.)
Maybe YouTube just has tunnel vision about JT’s music, check the video [Rated R]
Do you think its right Justin Timberlake gets a pass?
