Robin Thicke and Calvin Harris music videos criticised over sexist and racist content
A campaign targeting sexual and racial discrimination in music videos has highlighted popular work by artists Robin Thicke, Iggy Azalea, Major Lazer and Calvin Harris for criticism.
Rewind and Reframe, a women’s campaign group, has written to the Prime Minister and industry to call for the introduction of age restrictions on videos which ‘routinely sexualise and demean women’.
One particularly egregious track, Thicke’s Blurred Lines, has been barred from several student union playlists on the grounds that it glamorises rape.
Group spokeswoman Holly Dustin said: “Any ethical music company and video platform should clearly change its norms and practices. And the government has a role to play too, in implementing age ratings for this material.