This is as common as there are flies in the sky. What saddens me is that I am also apart of it and promote it; unaware that there are many kids out there that are being subliminally communicated with in regards to sex, sexual innuendo and behaviour (from which my awareness has now been heightened; thus the thread).

Lady Gaga is a start. I used to adore her. I stopped listening to her awhile ago and I've stepped back and realized what type of person she is. She might stand up for many things but if people believe her to be a kid's role model, then I am truly disgusted. If you want 13/14 year old girls dressing up in jumpsuit stockings with lace underwear going out in public; drunk or not, then I despise you as a parent and I believe you truly lack awareness to what is influencing your child.

People need to start waking up. I have no problem with adults or perhaps 16 years and above listening to this type of music; because by that time, they are either already mature enough to understand the messaging or they are already sexually aware of themselves. Now I'm not bashing GaGa. Artists like Rihanna, Britney Spears, Fergie, Ke$Sha (Ugh yuck), The Pussycat Dolls etc.

What is everyone's opinion about this?

I agree, I think our society is sex-obsessed, and pop music is one of the worst offenders. I don't feel offended by it so much as just ...bored. Every R&B chick has to be "sexy". I mean sure sexy is fun, but so is smart or stylish or feisty. Its so reductive.

I love Lady Gaga but Alejandro was a snoozefest - Catholic pack-sex homoerotic imagery - its all been done. Yawn. I think she should have done a Lady MacBeth themed video in a medieval castle with her in a long blonde wig, sleepwalking with blonde-stained hands! That would have got my attention ...

Music Video shows should be rated at least PG, probably M.

Parents are stupid.

Stock, of "Stock, Aitken and Waterman" fame talks on this very topic on the (wonderful) popjustice website:

http://www.popjustice.com/forum/index.php?topic=24522.0

I agree with this quote from the ensuing discussion:

"My main concern is that this over sexualization in pop video's has made artists lazy and uncreative. It's just so easy to stick a few semi naked dancers simulating sex and think that's good enough. It's boring and no longer challenging...Does Lady Gaga need to show most of her body and sing about riding a disco stick to give masses the message of sexual freedom ? I'd rather have her fully dressed in a 50's Dior suit, drinking some tea and proclaiming "Sex is overrated" : it would be more surprising, more fun."

To which another poster replied "Yes but I don't think clutching your pearls and screaming "won't somebody think of the children!" is the answer."

I'm sure the same was being said about Madonna 20 odd years ago and she was far more sexually assertive. Or maybe it just seems that way because Madonna has always been about Madonna. It was personal. We don't know a lot about Lady Ga Ga and she seems happy with that. Speculation about whether she was a man just added to the distraction. But are 13-14 year olds analysing it to that extent? Probably not, but unfortunately they're not here to tell us anything.

There was a time when television stations wouldn't film Elvis from the waist down because he thrusted his hips. Although the music industry is highly sexualised, it's up to the parents to control at least some of what their children listens to and watches on tv. Especially if they are very young. Yes it may be a lot more difficult with the internet and such, but there are too many parents out there that plonk their kids in front of a tv for 5 hours a night and refuse to take any responsibility for the material they watch.

I don't mind seeing sexual innuendo or references in pop clips or any other type of culture, so long as it's not targetting minors.

The problem I have, as I think somebody's mentioned, is that it all starts to look the same after a very short while. Take Katy Perry. She tries desperately hard to be provocative, but she does nothing innovative with it.

Also interesting, when artists want to take it to 'the next level' they usually fall back on BDSM stereotypes - with zero understanding of BDSM, leather or fetish culture and no context for what they're creating.

I personally liked the video for Alejandro. But it really was nothing Madonna hadn't done twenty years prior. Just as the song itself sounded like something Ace of Base might have released in the mid 90's.

I don't know if we've become pop culture sex addicts, but we've certainly become nostalgia junkies.

I enjoyed the Alejandro video as well - despite the shock-awe antics placed in it (the swallowing of the cross and the cross on different parts of her body). Can't they make videos by being classy and different?

Annie Lennox is a great example.

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Annie Lennox is a great example.

Ms Lennox is a fantastic example. The Eurythmics videos, then her early solos show an artist(s) in a constant state of deliberate and brave evolution.