musicNEWS
: MTV Bans Primus Video
6-16-00
8:00 AM PST antiGUY
Pollstar
reports that MTV has banned the new video from Primus. MTV apparently felt
that the video for "Lacquer Head" was too pro-drug. KNAC.com: the former
Los Angeles heavy metal radio station which has been reborn online, is
showing the video exclusively on their web site.
"Lacquer
Head" as it name implies has to do with a practice known as huffing. That
is where an individual places either glue, paint, gasoline or another chemical
into a bag and then inhales the fumes to get high. The Primus video shows
an animation of a kid watching the band perform on TV. Then the Devil shows
up and puts a contraption on his head and pours in some gasoline. The kid
inhales the fumes until he blows up and is then taken to hell by Satan.
antitorial
comment.
After
viewing the video the news staff here at antiMUSIC(me, antiGUY) feel there
is no way "Lacquer Head " is pro-drug. Unless you think having Satan get
you high, kill you, then take you to hell is a good thing. Does MTV think
that?
In
fact, this may lead some people to wonder if the person who made the decision
to ban this video might possibly have been under the influence. We hope
that is the case because the idea that a sober mind would see this video
as pro-drug is much too frightening to consider.
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