Nudity_in_music_videos

List of music videos featuring nudity

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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

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1990s

2000s

2010s

2010

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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.
"Lesson Learned" (uncensored version)	Alice in Chains	Paul Matthaeus & Sevrin Daniels	Brittany Christine^[26]	A woman is seen topless throughout the video. The video was edited for commercial release.^[27]
"Beauty Through Order"^[28]	Slayer	Ben Hibon	Charlie Mayhew^[29]	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.^[30]
"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.^{[citation needed]} She is shown on the cloud several more times in the video.
"Renegades"	Feeder		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.^{[citation needed]}
"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.
"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.^[31]^[32]

2013

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Music video	Artist(s)	Director	Nude person(s)	Nudity description
"Stay"	Rihanna	Sophie Muller	Rihanna	Rihanna is bathing in water completely nude.^[41]
"Bag Skyerne"	Anne Gadegaard		Anne Gadegaard	Gadegaard is sitting down on a floor completely nude.^[42]
"Thank You Very Much"	Margaret	Chris Piliero	30 extras	Nudist birthday party.^[43]
"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.^[44]
"Tunnel Vision"	Justin Timberlake	Jonathan Craven, Simon McLoughlin, Jeff Nicholas	Various actresses	Three models dance topless.^[45]
"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.^[46]
"Pretty"	The Weeknd	Sam Pilling	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.^[47]
"Wrecking Ball"	Miley Cyrus	Terry Richardson	Miley Cyrus	Cyrus appears nude atop a wrecking ball.^[48]
"Afraid"	The Neighbourhood	Ends	Jesse Rutherford	Rutherford is briefly shown nude showing his penis while sitting in a chair.^[49]
"Missing You"	2NE1	Han Sa-min	CL	In two consecutive scenes, CL is pondering in the nude with temporary tattoos on her back, fingers and feet. She is initially in the bathtub "mourning the loss of her lover", as her back is to the camera.^[50] Eventually, a shot follows of her "wistfully" crawling up in an empty and derelict room.^[51] No genitals were shown.
"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.^[52]
"Centuries"	Emika	Matt Lambert	Emika	Emika suns herself nude in a field, interspersed with a fully clothed Emika in a color-filtered night. Near the end she seems to collapse, then starts laughing.^[53]

2020s

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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.
1979	"Funkytown" (Debbie Jenner version)	Lipps Inc.	?	Background dancer	A female background dancer wearing a translucent top and no bra.

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]

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	An actor	An actor rips off his clothes at a night club at the end of the video.^[6]^{[dubious – discuss]}
"Morgane de toi"	Renaud	Serge Gainsbourg	An actress and children	A woman rides a horse topless on a beach, and a group of children run naked.

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.^{[citation needed]}
"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

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]

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	An actress	Topless in one scene.^[4]

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.^{[dubious – discuss]}
"Runke Ball"	Eddie Meduza		Eddie Meduza	Swedish singer Eddie Meduza is seen masturbating while singing about jerking off in Swedish.

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	An actor	As the video starts, an actor is seen naked from behind while swimming and on a trampoline.^[13]

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	An actress	An actress dances, shows full-frontal nudity.
"Be Thankful for What You Got"	Massive Attack	Baillie Walsh	An actress	An actress dances and strips, showing full-frontal nudity.

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		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.

Music video	Artist(s)	Director	Nude person(s)	Nudity description
"Closer"	Nine Inch Nails	Mark Romanek	An actress	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.

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	An actress	one of the actress can be seen topless very briefly.

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]

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	An actor is fully naked in a bar, actress is fully nude but her pubic region is covered by her leg.
"Love Don't Cost a Thing"	Jennifer Lopez	Paul Hunter^[16]	Jennifer Lopez	Lopez is seen topless at the end of the video with her hand covering her breasts. No frontal nudity.^[17]

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.
"Pagan Poetry"	Björk	Nick Knight	Björk	Björk is depicted topless throughout the video, and appears in stylised scenes of explicit sexual content. Video was banned due to nudity and sexual scenes.

Music video	Artist(s)	Director	Nude person(s)	Nudity description
"Celice (song)"	A-ha		unknown actress	Filmed in a brothel in Berlin, one pole dancer is seen as topless for a few seconds in the background. Heat sensors are used to show some of the more graphic images from the video.
"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.

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	-	An actress	One woman gets her top pulled down at 2:10.
"A Looking in View"	Alice in Chains	Stephen Schuster	Sacha Senisch^[23]	A woman is seen bare in her bathroom and in water.^[24]
"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.^[25]
"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.

Music video	Artist(s)	Director	Nude person(s)	Nudity description
"Red"	Hyuna	Zanybros	Hyuna	Hyuna in some scenes appears topless with a monkey covering her chest.^[54]
"Animals"	Maroon 5	Samuel Bayer	Adam Levine and Behati Prinsloo	Levine and Prinsloo embracing and kissing each other fully naked, covered in blood.^[55]
"Fade Out Lines"	The Avener	-	Fleur Geffrier^[56]	In the uncensored version, Geffrier is seen sitting in a chair with bare breasts.

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.^[63]
"BDY On Me"	Omarion	Omarion	An actress	An actress is seen completely naked lying in a bathtub with Omarion.^[64]
"My Collection"	Future	Nick Walker	Various actresses	Various actresses dance topless wearing only skin-colored panties throughout the video.^[65]
"It's Okay To Cry"	SOPHIE	SOPHIE and Nicholas Harwood^[66]	Sophie Xeon	Continuous shots of Sophie dancing topless from a static camera angle.^[67]
"Ni Tú Ni Yo"	Jennifer Lopez feat. Gente de Zona	Emil Nava^[68]	Jennifer Lopez	Lopez is seen naked, covered only by palm leaves.^[69]

Music video	Artist(s)	Director	Nude person(s)	Nudity description
"Girls of Summer" (Latin American / European Version)	Aerosmith	Dave Meyers	An actor	An actor is seen nude when a girl pulls his pants down to humiliate him.
"Lapdance" (uncensored version)	NER*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.
"Jenny from the Block"	Jennifer Lopez feat. Jadakiss and Styles P	Francis Lawrence^[18]	Jennifer Lopez and two other actresses	Lopez and two of her female friends are seen sunbathing topless on a yacht with their breasts censored by pixelation. In another scene, Lopez is seen topless in her hotel room with her breasts also pixelated.^[19]

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.^[20]
"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 exposed genital; he is wearing underwear.^[21]
"Progenies of the Great Apocalypse" (uncensored version)	Dimmu Borgir		An actress

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"	Günther		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.
"Stupidisco" (uncensored version)	Junior Jack	–	Two actresses	In the uncesored version, two women appear wresling. They eventually pull off each other's bikini's until they're fully nude, touching each other.

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.
"First Time"	Sunblock featuring Robin Beck	–	Various actresses	In the uncesored version, several women appear topless or almost fully nude throughout the video. In a bedroom playing with their towels, taking a bath together, and in a sauna near the end of the video.

Music video	Artist(s)	Director	Nude person(s)	Nudity description
"New Dark Ages"	Bad Religion		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	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.
"Baby Baby"	Sunblock featuring Sandra Chambers	–	Various actresses	In the uncesored version, several women appear topless or almost fully nude throughout the video, riding a mechanical bull or pole dancing.

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.^[22]

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.^[33]
"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	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	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.^[34]
"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.

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.^[35]
"Girl Gone Wild" (uncensored version)	Madonna	Mert and Marcus	An actor	In the uncensored version, a model is lying on the floor completely naked (rear shown).^[36]
"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.^[37]
"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.^[38]
"Follow the Leader"	Wisin & Yandel feat. Jennifer Lopez	Jessy Terrero^[39]	Jennifer Lopez	The video starts with a topless Lopez getting out of bed, covered in tattoos. No frontal nudity.^[40]

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.^[57]
"Timebomb"	Tove Lo	Emil Nava	Tove Lo	She appears nude on a beach.^[58]
"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.^[59]
"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.^[60]
"Free Love" (Playboy version)	Anca Pop	?	Anca Pop	The singer strips naked and exposes her breasts while singing.^[61]

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^[62]
"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.

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Music video	Artist(s)	Director	Nude person(s)	Nudity description
"Ausländer"	Rammstein	Jörn Heitmann	Various actresses	Various actresses are seen topless.^[70]
"Press"	Cardi B	TBA	Cardi B	The artist along with various actresses appear fully nude with invisible censorship to the breasts and genitalia.^[71]

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^[72]
"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.
"Spanish Night"	KLEINOD	?	Two women	Two nude women, one of whom exposes her breasts, are kissing and caressing each other.

Music video	Artist(s)	Director	Nude person(s)	Nudity description
"Industry Baby"	Lil Nas X feat. Jack Harlow	Christian Breslauer	Lil Nas X and various actors	Lil Nas X, with others behind, is seen dancing naked in a jail shower during the first chorus. The genitals are pixelated.^[73]
"Moth to a Flame"	Swedish House Mafia & The Weeknd	Alexander Wessely	Various actors and actresses	Several people are shown nude while kissing, fondling, and laying on each other.
"Freaks"	Surf Curse	Nick Rattigan & Jacob Rubeck	One actress	A female actress can be seen stripping nude after kissing a member of the band. She can be seen walking into a swimming pool with her buttocks shown.
"In the Morning"	Jennifer Lopez	Jora Frantzis^[74]	Jennifer Lopez	Lopez is seen totally naked apart from a pair of angel wings, and uses her hands to cover herself up.^[75]

Music video	Artist(s)	Director	Nude person(s)	Nudity description
"Flowers"	Miley Cyrus	Jacob Bixenman	Miley Cyrus	Cyrus' buttocks can be seen in a mirror reflection in a bathroom. Her cleavage can also be seen multiple times outside in the dark, with only beam lights being shown.^[76]
"Lavender Haze"	Taylor Swift	Taylor Swift	Taylor Swift	Swift is implied nude moving around in a pool of lavender colored water.