The Egyptian Censorship Committee started a campaign against seductive music videos and refused to allow the airing of over twenty music videos by different singers. the censorship turned down all request to produce and broadcast demeaning clips, which it considered were means of corruption.
According to the London based daily, Alsharq Al Awsat, a report released by the committee talked about music videos that featured sexual connotations and females barely dressed, stressing that that even the words sung by the singers held no meaning and were basically gibberish. The committee refused requests by producers to eliminate some of the inappropriate scenes and allow the clips to be aired, stressing that if singers wanted their songs aired they must reproduce the entire clip in a suitable matter fit to be aired and watched.
The Egyptian Musician Association has announced that it is very serious in its fight against pornographic music videos, and it intends on forming a committee that will be responsible for trying to convince different music channels that air such videos in stopping them. It was argued that such music videos are an insult to Arab music.
Head of the association Hassan Abu Su’ood has revealed that the association does not have specified and convincing mechanisms to take on such a mission and its power does not cover any television stations beside the Egyptian ones.
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