No Boobs, Butts or Crotchlesness " in the genital region" ...
Maybe not but, the impressing of the flesh, it seems, stops here.
The annual Grammy Awards ceremony honors the best musicians of the year, but is also a major promotional showcase for rising stars and upcoming albums.
Grammy performers have been told to cover up at Sunday's big music awards show, and keep their buttocks, nipples and genitals under wraps. Their politics can't show either.
In a "wardrobe advisory," broadcaster CBS also asked musicians and audience members likely to appear on camera at the Feb. 10 Grammy Awards ceremony to avoid wearing brand names on T-shirts as well as clothing with political or activist slogans.
"Please be sure that buttocks and female breasts are adequately covered. Thong type costumes are problematic. Please avoid exposing bare flesh under curves of the buttocks and buttock crack," said the memo issued by CBS standards and practices department and sent to the entertainment industry last week.
"Obscenity or partially seen obscenity on wardrobe is unacceptable for broadcast," the note added.
Foreign language on wardrobe will need to be cleared. And, in all caps: "OBSCENITY OR PARTIALLY SEEN OBSCENITY ON WARDROBE IS UNACCEPTABLE FOR BROADCAST. This as well, pertains to audience members that appear on camera. Finally, The Network requests that any organized cause visibly spelled out on talent’s wardrobe be avoided. This would include lapel pins or any other form of accessory.
No
“actual brand name products” No “organized causes” No audience
members with “partially seen obscenity” on their clothing No “‘puffy’
bare skin exposure”
What hath Beyonce wrought? Memos like these have not been a matter of
course prior to other Grammy telecasts. But Bey's revealing Super Bowl
wardrobe made some middle-American mothers and conservatives think they'd accidentally tuned in to the Lingerie Bowl, and it's hard
not to wonder if all that Victoria's Secret-friendly costuming is what
led the network to suddenly issue a very 20th-century-sounding call for
(relative) modesty.
The Grammys was on a delay to allow for bleeping—something the Super Bowl may be subject to, someday, given the complaints—but the network isn't taking any chances with naughty words that would need to be visually blurred, either. " The warning followed a lengthy court battle over indecency and obscenity standards on US network television.
CBS, a unit of CBS Corp, was fined $550,000 by the Federal Communications Commission for airing a glimpse of Janet Jackson's breast when her costume slipped while singing at the Super Bowl half-time show in 2004.
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| J-Lo's V-stomach (not V-neck) Versace dress |
Also banned are thong-type costumes. CBS says they will maintain the right to ban any performers who wear clothing that hits of obscenity. Is was tongue in cheek to see how that all would play out.
Regardless, there will be performers who will test those rules come Grammy nights.
(Meanwhile, in his Berkshire mansion, Elton John sits reading his email. He sighs and trudges to his walk-in closet, beginning the long process of finding new pants that can hide his buttock crack. This could take all night.)
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| No Buttock crack |
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| Think Pink |
More specifically, think back to the memorable moments when she hovered over the audience wearing one of those "problematic thong-type" outfits.
Most of the fabric that was visible on camera went into the rope holding her in the air.
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| Oh No-No puffy bare thong-less skin, Lady Gaga |
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| Fergie, showed off her granny panties |
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