The Jamaican Broadcast Commission announced new rules which ban “any song or music video that depicts sexual acts or glorifies gun violence, murder, rape or arson.”
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It’s like the 1950s all over again.
Jamaican lawmakers say they will forbid all lyrical references to sex and violence on their radio stations. The Jamaican Broadcast Commission announced new rules which ban “any song or music video that depicts sexual acts or glorifies gun violence, murder, rape or arson.”
The government also passed a law banning “daggering” in music videos, a kind of sexually suggestive dance.
Jamaican dancehall music has long been under scrutiny for it’s lyrical content. Intolerance towards homosexuality and lyrics about fire have been the cause of much controversy in the past.
Sandra Gordon and Carlyle McKitty of the Coalition to Preserve Reggae Music told Jamaican publication The Gleaner, “instead of music portraying truths, rights, love and respect, we see a popular sound that is demeaning, hateful, destructive and downward vulgar.”
So maybe Jamaican music will sound a little more like this now?
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