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Monday, 14 August 2006

British Sea Power video banned

Browsing Wikipedia's list of censored music videos I was surprised to find one that I have on regular rotation, British Sea Power's Please Stand Up. Your challenge (if you dare) is to watch the video and work out why MTV in the USA banned it.

[I'll pause for you to watch the video...]

Okay, if you've bravely seen the video then you'll suspect that the objections weren't to the images of the band playing in a nice little cottage in the country. If you found the lyrics a bit hard to hear, then you can read them in full on the band's site.

[I'll get a coffee while you read that...]

What, you still haven't worked it out? Apparently it's on the following two lines:
And then all of the sudden it's all better better
A little excitement makes us wetter wetter


Confused? I'll let NME and Soul Shine Magazine clear it up. I'm chalking it up to "cultural differences".