It's not too often that a video is removed from YouTube due to its racy content. The video sharing site is generally a free for all. While holding true to its values and steering clear of straight pornography, it caters to the most controversial of music videos and other uploaded clips of debauchery. It's rare, almost unheard of, that YouTube decides to take down a video in regards to its content, so that's why it comes as a great surprise that Justin Timberlake's most recent music video, "Tunnel Vision," is dubbed too racy for the Internet.
Timberlake's new raunchy single was banned from YouTube earlier this week. The pop sensation took a page out of Robin Thicke's book and shot a video singing in front of a handful of fully naked ladies. Timberlake chose not to expose the women in their entirety, but instead projected his image onto their bare flesh, sanctifying what defines them as a gender.
Timberlake did post on Twitter that the clip was "explicit," but the top guns at YouTube deemed it "too raunchy" for their site, regardless of the warning. As eager fans visited the page to catch a glimpse of the video, they were greeted by a message that read, "This video has been removed as a violation of YouTube's policy on nudity or sexual content."
The singer's video is oddly reminiscent of Thicke's recent explicit "Blurred Lines" video, where he and fellow musicians sing and dance against a white backdrop with topless models. Timberlake's video follows the same format, but implements different lighting techniques and staging. Check out the explicit, NSFW video below.
Timberlake will release his follow up to "The 20/20 Experience" on September 30.