The music video for Dizzee Rascal’s single Couple Of Stacks was the only 18-rated offering of 2015 because of “strong bloody violence, gore and very strong language”.
The British Board of Film Classification recently began a programme to give age ratings to music videos after research found more than two thirds (70%) of parents of children under 12 were concerned about exposure to inappropriate content.
Ellie Goulding’s song Love Me Like You Do, which featured in the film Fifty Shades of Grey, was rated 15 for strong sex references, as was U2′s Every Breaking Wave, for strong bloody injury detail.
Among the music videos to receive a 12 classification in 2015 were DC Breaks’ This Is Love, for moderate drug use, Foxes’ Better Love, for moderate sex references, The Vaccines’ Dream Lover, for moderate violence and threat, and Florence + the Machine’s Queen of Peace/Long & Lost, for moderate violence and nudity .
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