List of music videos with censored explicit content  

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This is a list of music videos that have had content that required the video to be censored during the daytime or restricted to night-time play or released with a censored version. Britney Spears and Madonna have the most censored videos, with six each.

0–9

• 30 Seconds to Mars - "From Yesterday" (sexual content)
• 30 Seconds to Mars - "Hurricane" (explicit content)
• 30 Seconds to Mars - "The Kill" (disturbing images, language)
• 50 Cent - "P.I.M.P." (sexual content)

A

• Add N to (X) - "Metal Fingers in My Body" (animated pornography)
• Add N to (X) - "Plug Me In" (pornography)
• AIR "Cherry Blossom Girl" (explicit sexual and rape scenes)
• Alice Cooper - "Poison" (nudity)
• Aphex Twin - "Windowlicker" (coarse language, disturbing sexual content)
• Audioslave - "Show Me How to Live" (implicit suicide)

B

• B-Tight - "X-Tasy"
• Baddiel & Skinner & Lightning Seeds - "Three Lions '98" (written language, homophonic pun "Kuntz")
• Basement Jaxx - "U Don't Know Me" (MTV UK, the Queen grabs a bum)
• Belouis Some - "Imagination" (nudity)
• Benny Benassi - "Satisfaction (Extended XXX revision)" (nudity, pornography)
• Benny Benassi - "Who's Your Daddy?" (nudity)
• Billy Idol - "Hot In The City" (religious imagery)
• Björk - "Army of Me" (portrayal of bombs and explosions) <ref>http://www.director-file.com/gondry/bjork2.html</ref>
• Björk - "Pagan Poetry" (nudity, violence)
• Björk - "Cocoon" (nudity)
• Björk - "I Miss You" (brief nudity)
• Black Eyed Peas - "I Gotta Feeling" (nudity)
• blink-182 - "I Miss You" (lesbian kiss, post-Super Bowl incident)
• Bodyrox feat. Luciana - "Yeah Yeah" (partial nudity)
• Bon Jovi - "Living in Sin" (sex)
• British Sea Power - "Please Stand Up" (lyric "wetter and wetter")
• Britney Spears - "Everytime" (implicit suicide)
• Britney Spears - "Toxic" (nudity; banned post 2004 Super Bowl incident)
• Britney Spears - "Gimme More" (nudity)
• Britney Spears - "Piece Of Me" (nudity)
• Britney Spears - "Womanizer" (nudity, censored during daytime rotation)
• Britney Spears - "If U Seek Amy" (lyrics edited)

C

• The Cardigans - "My Favorite Game" (cartoonish violence)
• The Cars - "Hello Again" (nudity)
• Cee-Lo Green- "Fuck You!" (strong language)
• Cher - "If I Could Turn Back Time" (Cher in a thong)
• Christina Aguilera ft. Redman - "Dirrty" (Controversy in Thailand)
• The Courteeners- "Not Nineteen Forever" (nudity, violence)
• Cradle of Filth - "From the Cradle to Enslave" (nudity, gore)
• Custom - "Hey Mister" (objectification of young girls)

D

• Daft Punk - "Prime Time of Your Life" (suicide)
• The Dandy Warhols - "Bohemian Like You" (nudity)
• DeGarmo & Key - "Six, Six, Six" (Antichrist set on fire)
• Disturbed - "Prayer" (post-9/11)
• DJ Shadow - "Walkie Talkie" (middle finger, language)
• Dr. Dre feat. Snoop Dogg - "The Next Episode" (nudity)
• Duran Duran - "The Chauffeur" (nudity)
• Duran Duran - "Girls On Film" (nudity)
• Dutch & Spade - "If You Want It" (nudity)

E

• Eamon - "Fuck It (I Don't Want You Back)" (strong language)
• Eminem feat. Dido - "Stan" (violence, lyrics)
• Eminem - "Superman" (nudity)
• Enrique Iglesias feat. Ludacris - "Tonight (I'm Lovin' You)" (nudity, language)

F

• Foo Fighters - "Best of You" (sexual content)
• Foo Fighters - "Low" (sexual content)
• Frankie Goes to Hollywood - "Relax" (explicit sexual content)
• Frank Zappa - "You Are What You Is" (A lookalike of then president Ronald Reagan on a electric chair)

H

• HIM_(Finnish band) - "Wicked Game" (nudity)
• Hundred Reasons - "Kill Your Own" (violence, blood)

I

• Incubus - "Megalomaniac" (Hitler)

J

• Jane's Addiction - "Mountain Song" (nudity)
• Jay-Z - "99 Problems" (murder)

K

• Korn - "A.D.I.D.A.S." (disturbing images)

L

• Lady Gaga- "LoveGame" (nudity and sexual content)
• Lady Gaga- " Telephone" (nudity and language)
• Lady Gaga- " Alejandro" (religious iconography and sexual content)
• Laura Andreșan - Muntele lui Venus (explicit sexual content, nudity and pornography)
• Ludacris- "Pussy Poppin" (nudity)

M

• Madonna - "American Life" (challenging times , violence , beatings , insults and murder)
• Madonna- "Erotica" (strong sexual content , insult and nudity)
• Madonna - "Justify My Love" (explicit sexual content , nudity and banned by MTV)
• Madonna - "Human Nature" (sexual content and insult)
• Madonna - "Like A Prayer" (religious iconography , murder and violence)
• Madonna - "What It Feels Like for a Girl" (extreme violence and implicit suicide)
• Marilyn Manson - "Coma White" (portrayal of John F. Kennedy's assassination)
• Marilyn Manson - "Dope Hat" (disturbing images)
• Marilyn Manson - "(S)aint" (sexual content, sexual abuse, violence, drug use, homosexual image, blood and alcohol abuse)
• Maroon 5 - "This Love" (sexual content)
• Mötley Crüe - "Girls, Girls, Girls" (sexual content)
• Mic Life - "Pute Pute" ( explicit sexual content, pornography and insult)

N

• Nine Inch Nails - "Happiness in Slavery" (explicit suicide)
• Nine Inch Nails - "Closer" (explicit nudity, S&M)
• N*E*R*D - Lapdance (explicit pornography, nudity)
• Nelly- "Tipdrill" (explicit nudity)

P

• Pearl Jam - "Jeremy" (implicit suicide)
• Placebo - "Protege Moi" (nudity, pornography)
• Primus - "My Name Is Mud" (implicit murder, considered unsuitable for children)
• Primus - "Lacquer Head" (drug use, violent content)
• The Prodigy - "Firestarter" (references to arson)
• The Prodigy - "Smack My Bitch Up" (explicit nudity, drug use, violence)
• Paulina Rubio - "El Ultimo Adios" (nudity)

Q

• Queen - "Bicycle Race" (nudity)

R

• Radiohead - "Paranoid Android" (nudity and portrayal of dismemberment, both animated)
• Rammstein - "Pussy" (nudity and pornography)
• Rihanna- " S&M" (strong sexual content and portrayal of S&M)

S

• Scooter - "The NightTemplate:Disambiguation needed" (nudity)
• Scooter - "Weekend" (nudity)
• Scooter - "Shake That" (nudity)
• Scooter - "Nessaja" (nudity)
• Silverchair - "Israel's Son" (disturbing imagery and implicit violence)
• Slash - "By the Sword" (lesbian kiss)
• Soulwax - "E Talking" (drug content)
• The Strokes - "Juicebox" (sexual content)
• The Sounds - "Tony the Beat" (partial nudity)
• System of a Down - "B.Y.O.B" (lyrics)

T

• Tool - "Prison Sex" (disturbing imagery)

U

• Ultravox - Visions in Blue (partial nudity)
• UNKLE - Rabbit in Your Headlights (violence)
• Undead - Hollywood Undead (partial nudity)

W

• Wax - "California" (man in flames)
• Robbie Williams - "Rock DJ" (implicit nudity and graphic gore)
• Robbie Williams - Come Undone" (disturbing sexual content , disturbing images)

Y

• Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Y Control" (extreme violence involving young children)

See also

• Nudity in music videos