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♪ (ragtime music) ♪

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(ambient jungle noises)

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Ooh, isn't that pretty?

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Oh no. You're not making me
watch this, are you?

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Oh shoot.

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- ♪ My anaconda don't... ♪
- Ooh. That's nice.

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- ♪ My anaconda don't... ♪
- (chuckles)

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My kinda rain forest.

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- Oh.
- ♪ Don't want none ♪

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♪ Unless you got buns, hon ♪

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I must say, they know how to move it.

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I don't understand how
people get derrieres like this.

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I really don't.

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♪ Now that's real, real, real ♪

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♪ Gun in my purse, bitch,
I came dressed to kill ♪

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♪ I'm on some dumb sh... ♪

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- ♪ By the way, what he say? ♪
- Oh, men will really enjoy this.

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♪ Come through and [bleep]
'em in my automobile ♪

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- ♪ Like, dun-d-d-dun-dun-d-d-dun-dun ♪
- ♪ My anaconda don't ♪

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"My anaconda"? What?

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Well, we know-- we know
we're not referring to a snake.

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♪ ...got buns, hon ♪

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I definitely would not be
watching this if I weren't here.

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Booty, booty.

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♪ Look at, look at, look at,
look at her butt ♪

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♪ This dude named Michael... ♪

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Ten years ago, they couldn't

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show stuff like this on TV, you know?

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♪ ...a tower, I ain't
talking about Eiffel's ♪

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The clothes are getting
skimpier and skimpier.

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♪ I let him hit it
'cause he slang cocaine ♪

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♪ He toss my salad like his name Romaine ♪

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♪ Little in the middle, but she got... ♪

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I don't know how they can
get away with this stuff nowadays.

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♪ ...don't want none unless you got buns ♪

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Very suggestive.

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- ♪ He love this fat ass ♪
- Oh wow.

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- (Minaj laughs maniacally)
- (chuckles)

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♪ Where my fat ass ♪

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- ♪ Big bitches in the club? ♪
- Oh my goodness.

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A gentleman has joined the film.

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♪ ...bitches in the mother[bleep] club ♪

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♪ [bleep] you if you
skinny bitches, what? Kyuh! ♪

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Hear no evil. See no evil. Speak no evil.

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♪ I got a big fat ass (echoing) ♪

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Yes, you do, darling.

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Did these two get an Oscar for this?

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Now, you wonder why kids
are so screwed up nowadays,

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because of this kind of [bleep].

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Come on. Clean it up. Clean it up.

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- ♪ Hey! ♪
- (school bell rings)

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(whispers) Is it over? Yes. Oh, thank god.

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Oh my goodness.

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Wowee zowee, Batman.

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I thought I had a voluptuous figure,

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but she makes me
look like a little wallflower.

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(movie reel clicks)

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(Finebros) How would you
describe this music video?

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How would I describe it?
It's very sultry, sexy.

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Bump and grind kind of burlesque thing.

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It's a porn video.

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Soft pornography.

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Very sexual.

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But they did it nicely.

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In my day, inappropriate.

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Today, I mean, at least
they were wearing clothes.

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- (Finebros) You know who the artist is?
- No, I don't.

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No, I don't.

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No.

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No, I don't.

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It was a "Nicki Minaj."

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- Nicki Minaj.
- Nicki Minaj.

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(Finebros) Her name is Nicki Minaj.

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(intrigued) Nicki Minaj.
Like a ménage à trois.

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(Finebros) So she is one of
the most famous artists

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in hip hop and rap music.

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That's 'cause she's got a nice big ass.

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(Finebros) But she is hugely successful
and came from nothing

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to get where she is today.
What are your thoughts on that?

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Well, I think she deserves it.

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Her hip hop is positive
enough. It's catchy.

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I love to see girls succeed.

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I have a little problem with
the exploitation of her body.

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She has a lot of talent.

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I don't know why she has to sell it on sex

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and why she can't trail-blaze
some kind of new path in hip hop

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that doesn't involve sheer sexuality.

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(Finebros) We're gonna
hand you the lyrics.

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- So can you please read this aloud?
- Oh good.

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I'm glad it's in big print.

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(dramatically) "My anaconda don't.
My anaconda don't."

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"My a--" (cracks up)

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"My anaconda don't want none
unless you've got the buns, hon."

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So I can't be in a relationship
unless I have a big butt?

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Is that what this is saying?

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(Finebros) So what does
"anaconda" really mean?

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I'm not really too sure.

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It's a big ol' snake.

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(Finebros) Do they mean it
as an actual snake?

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I'm gonna hope she did.

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It means he has very large personal parts.

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Maybe somebody's big [bleep].

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Big [bleep] wants a big ass, right?

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- (Finebros) It means a big penis.
- Ohh.

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Oh! My goodness.

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Now it makes sense.
Thank you for the translation.

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(Finebros) This is the
album cover for the song.

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Yeah, it shows her big--
she has a nice big ass.

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There's a lot of cleavage there,
but it's not on her chest.

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I don't like the cover.
She's better than that.

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So anyone can see this? Oh my.

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I think it makes it hard on all women.

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We're so much more than sex,

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and this is saying
this is all you need to see.

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This is all we need to be.

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(Finebros) What would have
happened if an artist

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released album artwork like this
back when you were younger?

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They probably would
have been thrown in jail.

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They would have never gotten it out.

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This kind of stuff
you went to Tijuana to find.

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It was not available.

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Jack Paar got kicked off the air

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for referring to the bathroom
in the early '60s.

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People were hysterical when
Marilyn Monroe's skirt went up.

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(Finebros) So this song
has been very controversial.

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On one side, there's people saying
that this is a feminist song

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and that women can be proud
of their body and express themselves

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- however they want.
- No, I don't-- I don't--

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I can't subscribe to that.

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I think it's a little shocking,
and I'm ashamed.

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This, to me, is not a way
of making women equal.

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Better getting the same salary
that a male employee would get.

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That would be more important
than displaying their tush.

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There is absolutely
nothing wrong with taking joy

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in your body and in sex,

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the problem being that
this influences young girls.

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These are the most popular things,

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and they think that
this is all it's all about.

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(Finebros) On the flip side,
people say that this video

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- is just objectifying women.
- No, not really.

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Just showing off a nice body.

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I don't think so.

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Everybody is doing
that same kind of thing.

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I agree with them.

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Yeah, and she puts out a video

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to where you only want
to look at the "objects."

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It's too bad that the younger stars
that are making all the money

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and that are high-profile
feel like they have to resort

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to this kind of sexualizing of themselves.

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It seems to make it okay
to view women in this way.

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If men get the idea

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that they can just think
of women as sexual beings,

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then, I mean, there were
over 200,000 rapes of women

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in the United States last year.

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(Finebros) There's also a third angle
where people say that

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this controversy is people
taking this too seriously

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and the song is kind of
a silly, funny song.

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Does that make this type of thing okay?

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Yeah, I think it's okay.

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I think it's just entertainment
and somebody

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trying to become popular
so she can make money.

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I don't think it's a good excuse, no.

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Fun and sexy could be done
with a little more tongue-in-cheek.

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What would happen if she put out
something that was still fun

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and still interesting
but more spiritually uplifting?

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I think it'd be really interesting
to see somebody do that.

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In your lifetime, do you feel like culture

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has gotten better or worse
when it comes to issues

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- like objectification of women?
- Worse.

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I think it may be going a little too far.

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We are going downhill fast.

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There always has been sex around,

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and I think that each generation
accepts it at a different level.

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It's not that different than
it was through the generations.

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I think it's just we're becoming much more

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relaxed about what we tolerate.

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I came from the era when

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everything we had to do was to please men.

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That's no longer the case,
and it's wonderful,

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and there's a wonderful freedom
that I wish I'd grown up in.

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But with the good, you know,
comes the extremism.

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(Finebros) So what do
you think can be done

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to fix this situation,
at least to some degree?

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Give them a pair of trousers.

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It really is up to the individual.

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I would hope that the public would speak

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in the way of not buying into
the videos, not buying the music.

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You cannot legislate morality.

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Who's the judge in saying
this went too far?

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Problem is, if you start putting
rules and regulations

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in trying to stop this stuff,

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you're gonna have a lot of problems.

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There has to be a happy medium somewhere.

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(Finebros) Finally, what
would you want to say

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to younger people who are watching this

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on how to process this world
that has so much sexuality in it?

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What context would you want
to leave people with?

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I'd say accept it with a grain of salt.
It's only a music video.

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This is better than
watching a bloody movie.

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This is not the norm.

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Everybody doesn't walk around doing that.

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The motive is to sell something.

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That's not the way people
comport themselves in everyday life.

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I'd like to see them open up
their heads and go take a walk.

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Get out of this pop culture

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and expand your mind and
your horizons and learn about

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all the other wonderful things
the world has to offer.

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I would tell young people to go
and watch it with their parents.

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If you go, "Oh no," then stop and think

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is this really something
you want to do then?

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If you're sneaking this,
then in your heart,

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you do know there's something
a little bizarre about it.

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Thanks for watching
this episode of Elders React.

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♪ (ragtime music) ♪