How did these videos "break the rules"?

[Backdrifter]

The latest poll to demonstrate people give baffling responses in polls:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/52097 14.stm

I can kind of see why Like A Prayer and Thriller would be up there, because of the content of one and the format of the other. But some of the others... Jamiroquai, Spice Girls, that one with women in leotards, Ray Of Light?! Am I missing something about how these "broke rules"?

[itvadmusic]

Robbie Williams was because he is shown to be peeling off his skin.

The PC brigade have merely got their red pens out again looking to pull out anyone which does not conform.

Moreover, Jamiroquai was in the list not for its lack of potential censorship but merely because it poses a puzzling set. There is nothing wrong with it, it just appears, as usual, to not conform and tries to bend barriers.

[itvadmusic]

Robbie Williams was on the list because he is shown to be peeling off his skin.

The PC brigade have merely got their red pens out again looking to pull out anyone which does not conform.

Moreover, Jamiroquai was in the list not for its lack of potential censorship but merely because it poses a puzzling set. There is nothing wrong with it, it just appears, as usual, to not conform and tries to bend barriers.

[texol]

No i cant see whats wrong with the Jamiroqui one either, spice girls one was because Mel B had a thin top on and she was feelin the cold, boobie style (know what i mean)

[brachiopod]

What remotest connection do "the PC brigade" have to do with this?

[**Clem**]

Maybe some of them bloke the rules in term of techniques used and what they represented? Ray of Light used that time speeding up technique and Jamiroquai used the moving floors thing. Maybe the Spice Girls one was because it showed women empowered and the people who voted have forgotten about Blondie and such like ; )

[ermintrude35]

...the spice girl one is famous for being a one shot take...

and I agree with **clem** they are "breaking the rules" in video technique as well as the regular un pc rules

[Backdrifter]

People have such short memories... most of those supposedly groundbreaking things were done not too long before the ones in the list e.g. Massive Attack's Unfinished Sympathy had a one-take video in 1990/1-ish so if Wannabe's in there for that it's a nonsense (surely it can't be because of erect nipples). The speeded-up thing was done before Ray Of Light too. People can be so stupid!

[chemicalbro]

the ray of light video was more than likely the strobe effect caused by the sped up film......

that can send some people into fits...