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Parent Groups protest new Video for "Losin It"
Demand M7 remove depiction of dangerous driving
Kaliburg, Grand Duchy of Ananto
January 15, 5634


Elga Nilsson and Magnus Gustafsson being interviewed on M7 about Controversy

Wanderlust are in hot water over the video for their newest single from their fourth studio album experiment 8.  The video in question for the single "Losin It" has made the group targets of parents groups who say the video promotes reckless driving, disregard for safety and suicidal ideation and have signed a petition to M7 to remove the video from regular rotation.  The video depicts lead singer Elga Nilsson placing a heavy stone on the accelerator of a distressed convertible and speeding down a stretch of I2, between Temmon and Frontera in Suldanor.  ARC, the label who produced the record and the video, said the road was a closed road, and all drivers were professional drivers, most of them professional stunt drivers.  Nobody was injured in any of the accidents depicted, and all crashes were under very carefully controlled conditions that were filmed dramatically to make them look far more serious than they actually were.

Melissa Avery, head of Suldaoran Parents Against Degenerate Media, a new Parents Group who says their goal is to remove "dangerous, subversive and lascivious content from KRTVN airwaves," said her group's petition with more than 10,000 names on it shows the level of opposition to what they call "decreasing standards of content" on the National Radio and Television Network.  "Those airwaves are ours," said Avery.  "And that ombudsman works for us.  And so we demand that he do his job and monitor the content of that channel with the demands of the common people in Kalistan in mind.  We don't need our children getting any ideas about driving around without full control of their cars, running people off the road and then dying by high speed suicide.  This band (Wanderlust) ought to be ashamed of themselves, and M7 ought to be ashamed of itself."

Elga Nilsson and Magnus Gustafsson, singer and drummer respectively of Wanderlust, the band under scrutiny recently gave an interview to M7, where they dismissed the complaints.  "This country shows, like, basically, pornography on its channels," said Nilsson, "and you don't hear us complaining about it.  Why would these uppity parents now all of a sudden, find something to be outraged by in our videos?  There are better things to be upset with than our artistic expression."

Gustafsson, who was the co-writer of the song "Losin It" had a much less nuanced message for the SPADM:  "Grow up.  Get off the internet and go touch some grass once in a while.  We aren't pulling the video."

M7 reported that their programming team did meet with the Ombudsman who, they said, conveyed the concerns of the parent groups to the channel.  "KRTVN doesn't typically censor things," said an official statement.  "We are confident that parents are capable of monitoring their childrens' viewing habits, and at any rate, based on our judgement, our conversations with the artists, the record company who is responsible for the video, and the television station, we have determined that this video does not advocate or glamorize dangerous behavior.  It merely depicts it, the same way any war movie would not be considered an advocation of war, but merely a depiction.  Therefore, we find no grounds to remove the video or require Channel 7 to change its programming schedule to accommodate a small minority of protestors.  We encourage the two sides to continue their conversations about the video and video content in general in an effort to clarify community standards of decency on our national airwaves."

The SPADM said they intend to boycott M7 and encourage other concerned parents across the country to join the boycott until the video is removed.

You can judge for yourself if the video is as dangerous as the Parents Against Degenerate Media claim.  Warning:  this video contains depictions of reckless driving, callous disregard for road safety and a depiction of a high speed suicide attempt.  Here's "Losin It" by Wanderlust, their second single off their recent ARC LP experiment 8.

[Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9WgtlgGAgs]

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