Strong music video from Sigur Rós - nudity
The Icelandic band Sigur Rós has recorded a somewhat unusual music video for a song entitled “Gobbledigook”. The video has lots of nudity (what is known as “frontal nudity” in the US). As a result, it will be banned on MTV and has been removed from YouTube.
The movie may be interesting because of the nudity - it has both nude males and nude women. It may also be interesting because of lots of pubic hair - a new trend? In Iceland?
However, the most interesting aspect of this is the marketing aspect. We have seen Pamela Anderson, Paris Hilton, and others using sex videos and nudity to become world famous. Is this possible for a band with a music video too? If it has lots of nudity?
Also, the media world is changing, and this video may well illustrate how relatively unimportant traditional media channels are becoming - even YouTube, when it chooses to censor. My bet is that this video will go viral, and that it will be one of the most viewed music videos this year.
It is still art? Who knows? However, the new album, which this song is from, is called “Nude”, so at least it reflects the title of the album.
What remains to be seen is whether sex sells, and whether the group will be able to reach their intended audience with this content or not?
We will see!
PS: Oh, and the video? You can find it on the homepage of Sigur Rós: Here.
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I live and have lived in Europe and the US. I like both.
I’m nekkid, so no need to undress me. Don't bite me. I much prefer stroking.
May 29th, 2008 at 11:34 am
…But how on Earth can you possibly call that movie sexy?!
Naked people running through a forest and playing by a lake - it’s the adult body acting as childlike as it possibly can, and to me it’s not at all sexy, though vaguely cute, and definately with a comical aspect.
I did notice some “touching” somewhere in there which quite definately was sexy, but overall, I find the human naked body quite unsexy. Not unattractive, but unsexy. Like naked children - it’s a body and it’s functions. Nice, perhaps sensual, human, mundane and maybe beautiful. It depends.
But to me it’s not sexy untill there is an *intent* in the eyes and movements. When there is an intent of sex, when there is lust - that’s when you’re over into the sexy.
But a nude person swimming in a lake (probably trying hard to breathe without getting leaves in his/her mouth) that just isn’t sexy.
I like the movie, because it does what it does - shows nudists having fun in the sun. As I said I think it’s funny.
But then again, I come from a liberal Scandinavian country, I’ve been in a sauna for both males and females (naked) without that bothering me, I’m comfortable in my own skin, I’m married (to an equally relaxed man) and have a child. I’ve seen a lot of naked skin. And after a very very short while you learn to discern between when a body is sexy and not…
May 29th, 2008 at 12:36 pm
No, the album is not to be called “Nude”. How do you find your sources?
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