These music videos have been banned because of their over the top approach to nudity, violence or controversy. While they were banned for TV, most of them can be found on YouTube or Vimeo. Here's a list of some of the videos that were just too much for TV to take.

1. “Smack My Bitch Up” – The Prodigy

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A night of debauchery, which involves drinking, drug use, domestic violence and more. At the end, it is revealed we are watching a female that's creating all the violence.

2. “Born To Die” – Lana Del Rey

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Lana Del Rey and her lover kiss, smoke pot and drive around in a car, something you don't want your kids to do. Her lover then carries her bloodied body at the end of the video from a background of flames, insinuating she died from a car crash.

3. “Stupid Hoe” – Nicki Minaj

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Nicki Minaj repeated the words "Stupid Hoe" 50 times, and that was the reason it was banned. The video features Minaj shaking her booty in an animal cage. A cleaner version called "Stupid Stupid" was later aired but it was never the same.

4. “What It Feels Like For A Girl” – Madonna

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Madonna's 2001 video features tasering a man, threatening cops with guns, wrecking cars and more. MTV didn't like the crime spree in the video so they decided to ban it.

5. “Low” – Foo Fighters

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Jack Black and Foo Fighters teamed up in this video to portray rednecks getting drunk in a motel room, showing the pair drinking heavily while filming each other. It gets weirder when they proceed to put on sexy women's clothes. Very weird, and it got banned.

6. “Blurred Lines” – Robin Thicke

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All the models in the video were topless, and wearing skin colored g-strings. Robin Thick, T.I., and Pharrell danced around with them. YouTube removed the video because it was way too explicit, so they posted a censored version with the models wearing clothes later on. It is still on Vimeo. It is also the video that made Emily Ratajkowski famous.

7. “Girls On Film” – Duran Duran

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Duran Duran filmed its salacious video before MTV launched in 1981, and it was filled with explicit material. The uncensored version features models wearing see through lingerie or nothing at all. There was even a mud wrestling scene and a lot of sexual innuendo and phallic imagery.

8. “Born Free” – M.I.A.

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M.I.A. released a nine minute short video featuring genocide against gingers (redheads) and it almost looked like real life violence. She wanted to show what happens in places like The Middle East, but critics didn't see it that way.

9. “Justify My Love” – Madonna

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Madonna pushed the envelope with this video, and it featured explicit imagery such as S&M and her getting it on with different sexual partners. Needless to say, this kinda looked like porn, but with music.