Aussie rock band drops full-frontal naked music video

This Aussie rock band’s new music video comes in two versions: Censored for YouTube, and a most-definitely-NSFW uncensored edit.

Australian punk rock band Amyl and the Sniffers have just released the video to their latest single Jerkin’ – and it’s an appropriately X-rated clip for a song that starts with the opening line, “You’re a dumb c***t, you’re an a**hole.”

A censored version of the music video is on YouTube, while the full, uncensored version – featuring much full-frontal nudity – is only available to view on the band’s official website.

The clip features vocalist Amy Taylor and her bandmates among a diverse array of models, who all strip off to pose naked as the song progresses.

The video opens with a warning stating that it “contains nudity and adult themes. Viewer discretion is advised. It is intended for mature audiences 18 years and older.”

Amy and her Sniffers bandmates in the Jerkin’ music video.

The warning also notes that the video is “intended for artistic expression and body positivity, not for sexual gratification.”

In a statement on the band’s website, Jerkin’ director John Angus Stewart said the ample nudity was not meant to be sexual.

“The level of offence that a vagina or penis can generate is absolutely bizarre.”

The video is intended to “examine the body in an open, conversational way.”

“The level of offence that a vagina or penis can generate is absolutely bizarre. Once, Amy said to me, ‘If the world wasn’t so f**ked up, I’d never wear clothes.’ It’s the context we stamp onto our sex organs that makes them innately ‘offensive.’ This is why we wanted to strip away the artifice and examine the body in an open, conversational way,” he wrote.

He explained that the video shoot was very much dictated by the models who appeared in it, “allowing our subjects to dictate their level of input based on their comfort on the day.”

The video appears on YouTube in a heavily censored form.

The director said the video shoot taught everyone involved to be “less prudish.”

And he said the video shoot was a transformative experience for her and the band: “ I think we all walked away from the shoot with an innate need to be less prudish and give less of a s**t.”

Jerkin’ is the latest single from Amyl and the Sniffers’ upcoming third studio album, Cartoon Darkness, released this Friday. Their last effort, 2021’s Comfort To Me, peaked at number two in the ARIA charts.

Taylor has described the band’s new album as being about “climate crisis, war, A.I., tiptoeing on the eggshells of politics, and people feeling like they’re helping by having a voice online when we’re all just feeding the data beast of Big Tech, our modern-day god.”

Another Aussie band with an album out this week, Confidence Man, recently made headlines with a naked music video of their own: The Brisbane band released the video for single I Can’t Lose You in June, featuring singers Janet Planet (aka Grace Stephenson) and Sugar Bones (real name Aidan Moore) performing the song in a helicopter flying high above London … all while totally naked.

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