Nudity in music videos
The appearance of nudity in music videos has caused controversy since the late 1970s, and several explicit music videos have been censored or banned. Nudity has gained wider acceptance on European television, where audiences often view nudity and sexuality as less objectionable than the depiction of violence. In contrast, MTV, VH1 and other North American music-related television channels usually censor what they think is inappropriate and might be considered offensive to their viewers.[1]
Notable examples
1970s
| Year | Music video | Artist(s) | Director | Nude person(s) | Nudity description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1978 | "Bicycle Race" (uncensored version) | Queen | Dennis de Vallance | Various actresses | 65 naked actresses racing bicycles at Wimbledon. The video was edited for commercial release. |
1981
| Music video | Artist(s) | Director | Nude person(s) | Nudity description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Girls on Film" (uncensored version) | Duran Duran | Godley & Creme | Various actresses | Partially nude models "strutting" on catwalks. The video was edited for MTV play, but even in that form was controversial.[2] |
| "Sex Dwarf" | Soft Cell | Tim Pope | Various actresses and Marc Almond | Fully nude actresses tortured on table and covered in meat, threatened by chain-saw wielding midgets. Marc Almond runs around wearing a jockstrap (this video was confiscated by the police).[3] |
1982
| Music video | Artist(s) | Director | Nude person(s) | Nudity description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Allentown" | Billy Joel | Russell Mulcahy | Various actors | Male coal miners are seen nude from behind while showering together |
| "Twilight Zone" | Golden Earring | Dick Maas | Only an actress | Topless in one scene.[4] |
1983
| Music video | Artist(s) | Director | Nude person(s) | Nudity description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "China Girl" | David Bowie | David Mallet | David Bowie | David Bowie's buttocks are shown as he and Geeling Ng passionately kiss on a beach, nude.[5] |
| "Visions in Blue" | Ultravox | Two actresses | Two actresses are shown topless with bare breasts showing, draped in towels washing themselves beside a fireplace. | |
| "Relax" (First Version) | Frankie Goes to Hollywood | Bernard Rose | Only an actor | An actor rips off his clothes at a night club at the end of the video.[6] |
| "Morgane de toi" | Renaud | Serge Gainsbourg | Only an actress and children | A woman rides a horse topless on a beach, and a group of children run naked. |
1984
| Music video | Artist(s) | Director | Nude person(s) | Nudity description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Up the Creek" | Cheap Trick | Dominic Orlando | Various actresses | Three versions of the video were produced, one with bikini-clad actresses, the second topless, and the third with full nudity, frontal and rear. The third version was shown on the Playboy Channel and featured in Playboy magazine. |
| "The Wild Boys" (Unedited Version) | Duran Duran | Russell Mulcahy | Various actresses | Features bare breasts. |
| "Madam Butterfly" | Malcolm McLaren | Various actresses | A nude actress is massaged by another actress. | |
| "Rock You" (uncensored version) | Helix | Various actresses | Features actresses topless around a campfire. A censored version |
1985
| Music video | Artist(s) | Director | Nude person(s) | Nudity description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Imagination" | Belouis Some | Storm Thorgerson | Various actresses | Full-frontal nudity in dream sequences.[7] |
| "Catholic School Girls Rule" | Red Hot Chili Peppers | Dick Rude | An actress | Topless actress dance scene.[8] |
| "Slave to the Rhythm" | Grace Jones | Jean-Paul Goude | Grace Jones with an actor | Frontal nudity, for artistic purposes.[9] |
1986
| Music video | Artist(s) | Director | Nude person(s) | Nudity description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Libertine" | Mylène Farmer | Laurent Boutonnat | Mylène Farmer, two other actresses, and an actor | Three woman undress and take a bath together, one of which being Farmer. In another scene, Mylène and an actor have sex on a bed, before showing a complete frontal nude of Farmer on the bed.[10] |
1987
| Music video | Artist(s) | Director | Nude person(s) | Nudity description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Girls, Girls, Girls" (uncensored version) | Mötley Crüe | Wayne Isham | Various actresses | Topless stripclub employees. |
| "Étienne" (uncensored version) | Guesch Patti | Lydie Callier | Guesch Patti | Patti performs a striptease. |
1988
| Music video | Artist(s) | Director | Nude person(s) | Nudity description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Mountain Song" (uncensored version) | Jane's Addiction | Various actors and actresses | Hot wax is shown being poured down a actress's breasts, as well as a male & actress being repeatedly shown lying down fully nude in a bed of flowers. |
1989
| Music video | Artist(s) | Director | Nude person(s) | Nudity description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Pop Song 89" | R.E.M | Michael Stipe | Michael Stipe and three actresses | Three actresses dance topless with an also topless Michael Stipe.[11] |
1990
| Music video | Artist(s) | Director | Nude person(s) | Nudity description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Justify My Love" (uncensored version) | Madonna | Jean-Baptiste Mondino | Various actresses and actors | Depictions of sexual fetishes, including a woman who is bare-chested except for braces (suspenders). The video was refused by MTV.[12] |
| "Being Boring" | Pet Shop Boys | Bruce Weber | Only an actor | As the video starts, an actor is seen naked from behind while swimming and on a trampoline.[13] |
1991
| Music video | Artist(s) | Director | Nude person(s) | Nudity description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Appetite for Destruction" | N.W.A. | Various actresses and actors | Various actresses and actors are depicting Adam and Eve naked and shows Eve leaning into Adam, mounting him, and enticing him with an apple. | |
| "Sin" | Nine Inch Nails | Brett Turnbull | Various actors and actresses | Actors and actresses pierced their genitalia, also topless. |
| "Primal Scream" (uncensored version) | Mötley Crüe | Matt Mahurin | Only an actress | An actress dances, shows full-frontal nudity. |
| "Be Thankful for What You Got" | Massive Attack | Baillie Walsh | Only an actress | An actress dances and strips, showing full-frontal nudity. |
1992
| Music video | Artist(s) | Director | Nude person(s) | Nudity description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Erotica" (uncensored version) | Madonna | Fabien Baron | Sex book models | Making of the Sex book. Madonna is also seen hitch-hiking the streets, showing full-frontal nudity at the end of the video. |
| "Only If You Want It" (uncensored version) | Eazy-E | Only an actress | Girl's breast is exposed after she's hosed down. | |
| "Happiness in Slavery" | Nine Inch Nails | Jon Reiss | Bob Flanagan | Male genitals exposed. |
| "Not A Day Goes By" | Rick Price | Actress artistic nude | Non-frontal views in an artistic pose. |
1993
| Music video | Artist(s) | Director | Nude person(s) | Nudity description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Sweet Harmony" | The Beloved | Big TV! | Singers | Male and female singers are all nude. |
1994
| Music video | Artist(s) | Director | Nude person(s) | Nudity description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Closer" | Nine Inch Nails | Mark Romanek | Only an actress | Only an actress is seen fully naked in multiple scenes. |
| "Put Yourself in My Place" | Kylie Minogue | Kier McFarlane | Kylie Minogue | Minogue appears nude during the second chorus. No frontal nudity. |
1996
| Music video | Artist(s) | Director | Nude person(s) | Nudity description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "How Do U Want It" (uncensored version) | 2Pac featuring K-Ci & JoJo | Ron Hightower | Various actresses | Many dancers topless and several fully nude. |
| "Fastlove" | George Michael | Vaughan Arnell & Anthea Benton | Only an actress | one of the actress can be seen topless very briefly. |
1997
| Music video | Artist(s) | Director | Nude person(s) | Nudity description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Face Off" | Jay-Z featuring Sauce Money | Abdul Malik Abbott | Various actresses | Several topless actresses and one actress full-frontal nudity, vulva also shown. |
1998
| Music video | Artist(s) | Director | Nude person(s) | Nudity description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Fly Away" | Lenny Kravitz | Paul Hunter | A girl in the crowd dancing topless is shown briefly several times. | |
| "Every Time" | Janet Jackson | Matthew Rolston | Janet Jackson | Jackson appears nude through whole video, no frontal nudity. |
| "Thank U" | Alanis Morissette | Stéphane Sednaoui | Alanis Morissette | The singer appears nude, with her hair covering her breasts.[14] |
1999
| Music video | Artist(s) | Director | Nude person(s) | Nudity description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "From the Cradle to Enslave" | Cradle of Filth | Alex Chandon | Various actresses |
2000
| Music video | Artist(s) | Director | Nude person(s) | Nudity description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Untitled (How Does It Feel)" | D'Angelo | Paul Hunter | D'Angelo | D'Angelo is shot wearing a gold chain and nothing else against a black background in a single continuous take in which the camera rotates around the singer.[15] |
| "Playmate of the Year" (uncensored version) | Zebrahead | Mark Kohr | Topless Playmates | Various Playboy Playmates are shown topless. |
| "Bohemian Like You" | The Dandy Warhols | Courtney Taylor | An actor and actress | Only an actor is fully naked in a bar, actress is fully nude but her pubic region is covered by her leg. |
2001
| Music video | Artist(s) | Director | Nude person(s) | Nudity description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Fiesta" | R. Kelly featuring Jay-Z | Little X & R. Kelly | Three actresses | The three actresses are seen topless at a beach. |
2002
| Music video | Artist(s) | Director | Nude person(s) | Nudity description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Girls of Summer" (Latin American / European Version) | Aerosmith | Dave Meyers | Only an actor | An actor is seen nude when a girl pulls his pants down to humiliate him. |
| "Lapdance" (uncensored version) | N*E*R*D featuring Lee Harvey and Vita | Diane Martel | Various actresses | Several actresses are seen dancing around Pharrell and other band members topless and showing their buttocks while touching each other's breasts throughout the entire video. |
| "Cocoon" | Björk | Eiko Ishioka | Björk | Björk apparently is fully naked, but actually it's a bodysuit. |
2003
| Music video | Artist(s) | Director | Nude person(s) | Nudity description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Superman" | Eminem | Paul Hunter | Porn star Gina Lynn and Eminem | Eminem bends his buttocks over through a door, telling a girl he just finished a one-night stand with to kiss his ass. The girl later takes her top off and her bare breasts are revealed in an attempt to seduce Eminem. In the VEVO and television version, Eminem's buttocks and the girl's bare breasts are pixelated. |
| "Work It" (uncensored version) | Nelly featuring Justin Timberlake | Joseph Kahn | Two actresses | In the uncensored version, two Playboy Playmates appear completely naked on a tennis court with Nelly. |
| "P.I.M.P." (uncensored version) | 50 Cent featuring G-Unit and Snoop Dogg | Chris Robinson | Various actresses | In the uncensored version, various actresses are seen dancing topless. |
| "P-Poppin" (uncensored version) | Ludacris featuring Shawnna and Lil Fate | Various actresses | In the uncensored version, various actresses are seen dancing nude. Ludacris is seen smacking the backsides of several actresses in very sexual poses. Some of these actresses are exposing their vaginal area. | |
| "Protège-Moi" | Placebo | Gaspar Noé | Various actors and actresses | Various actors and actresses featured full nudity. The video takes place during an orgy and includes explicit unsimulated sexual content. Never officially released due to the level of sexual content.[16] |
| "Come Undone" | Robbie Williams | Jonas Åkerlund | Two actresses | Robbie Williams is involved in a threesome with two actresses; one is topless and the other fully nude with her genitals blurred, he is wearing underwear. |
| "Progenies of the Great Apocalypse" (uncensored version) | Dimmu Borgir | Only an actress |
2004
| Music video | Artist(s) | Director | Nude person(s) | Nudity description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Disco Inferno" | 50 Cent | Ulysses Terrero | Various actresses | Several actresses are seen nude while 50 Cent is at a strip club. |
| "Ding Dong Song" | Gunther | Two actresses | Gunther in seen nude on the beginning, showing his buttocks uncensored. Some actresses also show nude, but not showing the genitalia and the breasts. | |
| "My Band" (uncensored version) | D12 | Phillip G. Atwell and Eminem | Two actresses | A topless woman dances on a pole and a topless woman appears next to Eminem. |
2005
| Music video | Artist(s) | Director | Nude person(s) | Nudity description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "One Night in Bangkok" | Vinylshakerz | Various actresses | Various actresses are seen topless. | |
| "They" (UK version) | Jem | Laurent Briet | Jem | Teenager falls asleep building a spaceship model and dreams of Jem, in the spaceship, taking off her spacesuit. |
| "How Do You Do!" | Cascada | Woman riding a bull riding machine takes her top off. |
2006
| Music video | Artist(s) | Director | Nude person(s) | Nudity description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "L'amour n'est rien..." | Mylène Farmer | Benoît di Sabatino | Mylène Farmer | Farmer does a striptease in the video. |
| "Yeah Yeah" | Bodyrox featuring Luciana | Various actresses | Various actresses are seen topless. | |
| "Mann gegen Mann" | Rammstein | Jonas Åkerlund | Rammstein members; several actors | Rammstein members are seen using their instruments covering their genitals; actors are seen nude from behind. |
2007
| Music video | Artist(s) | Director | Nude person(s) | Nudity description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "New Dark Ages" | Bad Religion | Only an actress | For a split second, a topless actress can be seen, what looks like, masturbating. Her breasts are censored by a black bar. | |
| "Gimme More" (uncensored version) | Britney Spears | Jake Sarfaty | Britney Spears | In the uncensored version, Spears is topless near the end of the video during a striptease (she is wearing pasties). |
| "Piece of Me" (uncensored version) | Britney Spears | Wayne Isham | Only an actress | In the uncensored version, an actress' derrière is shown in the video. |
| "Survivalism" | Nine Inch Nails | Alex Lieu | Various actresses | A topless woman is seen at a bathroom mirror via (simulated) security camera footage. |
| "Baby Love" | Nicole Scherzinger | – | Nicole Scherzinger | Scherzinger has a semi-nude appearance in the video. |
2008
| Music video | Artist(s) | Director | Nude person(s) | Nudity description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Addicted" (uncensored version) | Saving Abel | Anthony Honn | Various actresses | Various actresses appear topless. |
| "Hustler" (uncensored version) | Kano | Various actresses | Various actresses appear topless. | |
| "Gobbledigook" from the album Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust | Sigur Rós | Arni & Kinski | Various actors, actresses and band members | A mixed gender group of 10 or so young adults partake in fully nude outdoor activities which includes walking, running, dancing and swimming. |
| "So What" | Pink | Dave Meyers | Pink | In one scene from the music video, Pink takes off her jacket, revealing her nude body. Her buttocks and her breasts are censored with a black bar. |
| "Undead" | Hollywood Undead | Jonas Åkerlund | Various actresses | Various girls are seen topless performing sexual acts on a few of the band members as well as on other topless girls. |
| "Toe Jam" | The Brighton Port Authority featuring David Byrne and Dizzee Rascal | Keith Schofield | Various actresses | This video uses the censor bars to form figures on the screen. |
| "Womanizer" | Britney Spears | Joseph Kahn | Britney Spears | Spears appears nude in a sauna, and uses her hands to cover herself up.[17] |
2009
| Music video | Artist(s) | Director | Nude person(s) | Nudity description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "LoveGame" | Lady Gaga | Joseph Kahn | Lady Gaga | Lady Gaga is fully nude on a bench with two men in their underwear. She has rhinestones and body paint all over her. No frontal nudity. |
| "I Almost Told You That I Loved You" (uncensored version) | Papa Roach | Colin Minihan | Unknown actress | One woman walks down the hall with her top off. |
| "I Gotta Feeling" (uncensored version) | The Black Eyed Peas | Only an actress | One woman gets her top pulled down at 2:10. | |
| "A Looking in View" | Alice in Chains | Stephen Schuster | Only an actress | A woman is seen bare in her bathroom and in water. |
| "Leave the World Behind" | Axwell & Sebastian Ingrosso, Steve Angello, Laidback Luke | An actress in crowd at concert | An actress is seen to expose her breasts at 02:31. | |
| "Pussy" | Rammstein | Jonas Åkerlund | Band members, various porn models | Body-doubles of band members have hardcore sex with different actresses.[18] |
| "Want" | Natalie Imbruglia | Diane Martel | Natalie Imbruglia | Natalie herself is taking pictures of herself topless on the floor. No frontal nudity. |
| "Bad Romance" | Lady Gaga | Francis Lawrence | Lady Gaga | Lady Gaga gets topless in a tub when two actresses takes off her clothes, then she is shown nude backlit from behind. No frontal nudity. |
2010
| Music video | Artist(s) | Director | Nude person(s) | Nudity description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Ain't Got No (I Got Life)" | Patrice | Various actors and actresses | Time lapse footage of naked actors and actresses running around throughout the video | |
| "Kids in Love" | Mayday Parade | Various actors and actresses. | The actors and actresses are nude throughout the video. | |
| "Window Seat" | Erykah Badu | Coodie Rock | Erykah Badu | Badu strips during the video and walks around at the site of John F. Kennedy's assassination.[19][20] |
| "Beauty Through Order"[21] | Slayer | Ben Hibon | Charlie Mayhew[22] | In the music video, a nude woman emerges from a black liquid (presumably oil) and there are brief shots of her breasts and buttocks. |
| "Hurricane" | Thirty Seconds to Mars | Various actors and actresses | Frequent shots of nudity, sex and sexual violence involving males, females and transsexuals. Bondage activities are consistent throughout. Explores sexual fetishism in a nightmarish context. The video was banned from music channels for its explicit content and was replaced by a censored version. | |
| "Dirty Picture" | Taio Cruz ft. Kesha | Alex Herron | Various actresses | In the Dirty Version of the music video, bare breasts are shown one time as a stripper spins around a pole around 2:31.[23] |
| "Calma Pueblo" | Calle 13 | People starts to undress and running nude. | ||
| "California Gurls" | Katy Perry | Matthew Cullen | Katy Perry | Perry during her first chorus of the song is seen fully nude lying down on a cotton candy created cloud. Her buttocks are covered by a layer of cloud going over the area for decency. She is shown on the cloud several more times in the video. |
| "Renegades" | Feeder | Only an actress | Same character as seen in the "Call Out" video, destroys the band's dressing rooms while they are rehearsing nearby and also takes her frustrations out on other people. She is seen topless in the video which is not censored. | |
| "Twin Flames" | Klaxons | The Band members and various actresses. | The band members are involved in an orgy with several actresses. As the video progresses their body parts begin to fuse. | |
| "Tonight (I'm Fuckin' You)" | Enrique Iglesias | Various actresses. | Near the beginning, actresses are seen topless and Iglesias is shown in bed with many topless actresses. |
2011
| Music video | Artist(s) | Director | Nude person(s) | Nudity description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "All Over the House" | Skepta | Two pornographic actors | The video features a black pornographic actor and a white pornographic actress having hardcore sex.[24] | |
| "Ihmisixsixsix" | Turmion Kätilöt | Various topless actresses | The video was removed from YouTube due to this "offending material". As a response, the band directed a brand new video, featuring behind-the-scenes and off-stage material with numerically even more explicit content, censored by pixelation. | |
| "E.T." | Katy Perry | Floria Sigismondi | Shaun Ross | Only an actor is seen nude with rear shown toward the end of the video |
| "Moves Like Jagger" | Maroon 5 feat. Christina Aguilera | Jonas Åkerlund | Various dancers | The explicit version has female frontal nudity (flashes of naked actress breasts, one shown in 2:50 of the video) |
| "Get Away" | Yuck | Michael Reich | Only an actress | A girl stands naked in the entire clip and is tied and gagged, and drizzled with what appears to be oil. |
| "I Feel Like Dancin'" | All Time Low | Matthew Stawski | In a scene spoofing Katy Perry's California Gurls The lead singer is shown lying nude on his stomach on a pile of cotton candy with part of it covering his buttocks. | |
| "Marry the Night" | Lady Gaga | Haus of GaGa | Lady Gaga | Lady Gaga dances topless with her breasts covered by a black censor bar. |
| "Down for Whatever" | Kelly Rowland featuring The WAV.s | Sarah Chatfield | Kelly Rowland | Rowland is standing on a platform supposedly nude in high heels with strategically placed streaming lights obscuring full frontal nudity.[25] |
| "Antidote" (uncensored version) | Swedish House Mafia vs. Knife Party | Maxim Bohichik & Alex Bergman | Various actresses | In the uncensored version, two dancers are dancing topless in a strip club. While the robbery is being performed two more dancers run completely naked. |
2012
| Music video | Artist(s) | Director | Nude person(s) | Nudity description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Cochon ville" (uncensored version) | Sébastien Tellier | Alex Courtes | Various actors and actresses | In the uncensored version, various naked actors and actresses dance at a dance club.[26] |
| "Girl Gone Wild" (uncensored version) | Madonna | Mert and Marcus | Only an actor | In the uncensored version, a model is lying on the floor completely naked (rear shown).[27] |
| "Oh Love" (Uncut Version) | Green Day | Samuel Bayer | Topless woman | In the uncut version, some woman are seen topless at the end of the video. |
| "Pyramids" | Frank Ocean | Nabil Elderkin | Various actresses | Various actresses dance topless at a strip club.[28] |
| "Turn Up the Radio" | Madonna | Tom Munro | Various actresses | One of the actresses is wearing denim overalls without a bra, her right breast slips out in 3 occasions.[29] |
2013
| Music video | Artist(s) | Director | Nude person(s) | Nudity description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Stay" | Rihanna | Sophie Muller | Rihanna | Rihanna is bathing in water completely nude.[30] |
| "Bag Skyerne" | Anne Gadegaard | Anne Gadegaard | Gadegaard is sitting down on a floor completely nude.[31] | |
| "Thank You Very Much" | Margaret | Chris Piliero | 30 extras | Nudist birthday party.[32] |
| "Blurred Lines" | Robin Thicke | Diane Martel | Emily Ratajkowski, Jessi M'Bengue, and Elle Evans | In the unrated version, three topless girls are walking and dancing around, through the whole videoclip.[33] |
| "Tunnel Vision" | Justin Timberlake | Jonathan Craven, Simon McLoughlin, Jeff Nicholas | Various actresses | Three models dance topless.[34] |
| "Come & Get in Trouble with Me" | Ricki-Lee Coulter | Marc Furmie and Rikki-Lee Coulter | Rikki-Lee Coulter | Coulter rides a horse nude and appeared topless in gold paint.[35] |
| "Pretty" | The Weeknd | Sam Pilling | Only an actor and actress | An Asian actress (assumed to be portraying The Weeknd's girlfriend or ex-girlfriend) can be seen nude in a shower, with her breasts fully exposed. Later, she is seen having sex with an actor, assumed to be portraying her new boyfriend. Breasts and buttocks are shown.[36] |
| "Wrecking Ball" | Miley Cyrus | Terry Richardson | Miley Cyrus | Cyrus appears nude atop a wrecking ball.[37] |
| "Afraid" | The Neighbourhood | Ends | Jesse Rutherford | Rutherford is briefly shown nude showing his penis while sitting in a chair.[38] |
| "Eureka" | Sakanaction | Yasuyuki Yamaguchi | Various actresses | Nude models appear in a line from the start while covering their faces, and later form the eureka in the end.[39] |
2014
| Music video | Artist(s) | Director | Nude person(s) | Nudity description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Animals" | Maroon 5 | Samuel Bayer | Adam Levine and Behati Prinsloo | Levine and Prinsloo embracing and kissing each other fully naked, covered in blood.[40] |
2015
| Music video | Artist(s) | Director | Nude person(s) | Nudity description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "This Summer's Gonna Hurt like a Motherfucker" | Maroon 5 | Travis Schneider & Adam Levine | Adam Levine | Levine is briefly shown to be fully nude (exposing his buttocks) in the start of the video.[41] |
| "Timebomb" | Tove Lo | Emil Nava | Tove Lo | She appears nude on a beach.[42] |
| "Bitch Better Have My Money" | Rihanna | Megaforce and Rihanna | Rihanna | A woman shown to be tortured by Rihanna and her sidekicks is completely topless near the beginning and middle of the video, while Rihanna herself appears nude, covered in blood at the end of the video with only a bill covering her genitals.[43] |
| "Cream" | Tujamo & Danny_Ávila | Various actors and actresses | Various actresses appear naked throughout the music video. | |
| "Be As You Are" | Mike Posner | Mike Posner and various actors and actresses | People are shown stripping nude and running into the ocean after ripping up signs showing negative things they have been called. Posner does the same at the end of the video ripping a sign which reads "afraid." Only their buttocks are shown.[44] | |
| "Human Race" | Three Days Grace | Mark Pellington | Various actors and actresses | Various actors and actresses appear naked throughout the music video. |
2016
| Music video | Artist(s) | Director | Nude person(s) | Nudity description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Pick Up the Phone" | Young Thug and Travis Scott feat. Quavo | Various actresses | Several topless models are seen around Young Thug[45] | |
| "On Hold" | The xx | Alasdair McLellan | An actor and actress | An actress is sunbathing topless, whilst a male is shown doing press-ups fully nude. |
2017
| Music video | Artist(s) | Director | Nude person(s) | Nudity description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "The Great Undressing" | Jenny Hval | Marie Kristiansen | Marte Germaine Christensen | Christensen appears doing various tasks in her apartment and outside while naked.[46] |
| "BDY On Me" | Omarion | Omarion | Only an actress | An actress is seen completely naked laying in a bathtub with Omarion.[47] |
| "My Collection" | Future | Nick Walker | Various actresses | Various actresses dance topless wearing only skin-colored panties throughout the video.[48] |
2019
| Music video | Artist(s) | Director | Nude person(s) | Nudity description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Ausländer" | Rammstein | Jörn Heitmann | Various actresses | Various actresses are seen topless.[49] |
2020
| Music video | Artist(s) | Director | Nude person(s) | Nudity description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Daisies" | Katy Perry | Liza Voloshin | Katy Perry | Singer is naked during second chorus, however she uses her arms to cover her breast[50] |
| "Simmer“ | Hayley Williams | Warren Fu | Hayley Williams | Hayley Williams is seen running in the forest naked throughout the video at night. Her butt is visible. |
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