Petition to Regulate Sexualise & Violent Music Videos

My petition: PLEASE EVERYONE CAN YOU SIGN IT?

Introduce statutory age ratings for music videos

 

The Government needs to introduce statutory age ratings and warnings for music videos to alert otherwise unsuspecting parents and viewers. Music videos should be studied in slow motion, sounds analysed and lyrics read for their true nature to be assessed and rated accurately.

 

Music videos are not regulated as films and video games are despite often being very sexual or violent and being totally unsuitable for children. Often, parents allow children to see music videos, not realising their nature, assuming that as it’s ‘just music’ it must be ok. Music video producers can create content that is sexual or violent without needing to display an age rating. We believe this puts the nation’s children at an unacceptable risk of being exposed to unsuitable content.

Click this link to sign the petition:

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/632288?fbclid=IwAR0KZ4YxpbJtmC3a9KCgn81R9o-wcd-UMHvv8yUHPKoh41_-3UPUtddVGwo

This isn't a new problem: read the report made by in 2010 that warned 'deaf' parliament that children were being sexualised. The report, by psychologist Dr Linda Papadopoulos, commissioned by the government, went ignored. Here is one recommendation:

• broadcasters are required to ensure that music videos featuring sexual posing or sexually suggestive lyrics are broadcast only after the ‘watershed’;

Here is the government's acknowledged promise...

Home Secretary Alan Johnson said: “We know that parents are concerned about the pressures their children are under at a much younger age, which is why we have already committed to a number of the recommendations in this report."

What happened Alan??? How come music videos can still be shown before the watershed no matter what their content?? No matter what you do with everything else, if you leave a loophole then the perverts can still get through!

Perhaps parliament does, in fact, have good hearing but chooses to look away. Why? Lazy, foolish, under duress or complicit? Report HERE of which, the conclusion is below...

Also in 2011 was, 'Letting Children be Children Report of an Independent Review of the Commercialisation and Sexualisation of Childhood' by Reg Bailey. Read it HERE.

Former GB News’ Alex Phillips said, in the wake of the Sam Smith music video scandal, "You have had to edit a lot of that video down to be able to show it on television. The point is that teenagers and young people are the audience who are watching these things and it doesn't come with a block. They are fully available on YouTube and TikTok. We live an age now where porn is becoming so normalised. It is in music videos, it is in fast fashion that is being marketed to teens and we also live in an age where we know that people are getting sexually assaulted at school. You are having to have websites where people are saying ‘I am going through these terrible experiences’. You have got filth going on in WhatsApp groups among police officers. I don't think it is a coincidence that the reporting of things like sexual assaults and sexual attacks, relationships falling apart, the swipe left and swipe right generation. It is bad, it is unhealthy, it is not good for society and this is a symptom of it.”

PLEASE SIGN THE PETITION HERE

PREVIOUS PETITION REGARDING MUSIC VIDEOS:

21 JUNE 2016 Make stricter laws for music videos and music: Recently, over the last 10 years music & especially music videos have become too vulgar for tv. Songs contain way too much about sex, drugs, hustling, etc. Kids are subjected to these songs when they are listened too by the parent and when they get older too.


10 NOV 2013 A new law to completely ban all music videos that are unfit for day-time viewing.


30 MARCH 2015 Watershed for Music and Music Videos.


2 FEB 2017 Put a watershed on sexual music videos to stop kids wanting to copy the stars!

23 MAR 2021 Create legal age restrictions for music.

28 SEPT 2013 Change censorship regarding music and music videos in public mediums.

28 SEPT 2012 Inappropriate Music Lyrics.

18 MAY 2018 Ban (heavily monitor)all rap/grime music.