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And Finally
No sex please, I’m Gary Barlow
By CMU Editorial | Published on Thursday 24 November 2011
Gary Barlow thinks a lot of pop videos now are far too sexual, and he doesn’t like it. Not one bit.
Barlow told OK! Magazine: “When you have young children it’s not to be promoted. The other day I wanted some music in the kitchen and put on one of the music TV channels and a video came on which was so rude I had to turn it off because my nine year old was with me. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not a prude but I don’t think I really want my children who are nine, eleven and two seeing these kind of videos at that age. I’m a parent. I have responsibility, but I also understand these videos are sexual to attract peoples’ attention”.
He added: “I have had five nine year olds in the back seat singing along to Black Eyed Peas songs with ‘F’ this, ‘F’ that and I’m like, ‘Right, I’m stopping the car. I don’t like my kids listening to swearing’. Luckily lyrics go over their heads for the most part”.
Oh, for the good old days, like when the That were the fresh faced new boys in town, and pop bands employed much more wholesome ways to attract people’s attention, like covering themselves in baked beans and getting their bums out. Though, to be fair, Barlow did admit that his band are a little to blame for the sexualisation of pop (only a little, mind), saying: “Our tours and some of our songs can be dressed a little sexually but it’s not too in your face”.
