This Is Hardcore

Overview

Janet Jackson's fallen top was a planned "Nipplegate", Rammstein's "Bück-Dich" rubber penis show, Madonna's French kiss with Britney Spears and t.A.T.u.'s lesbian show - all calculated provocations and cheap marketing tricks. The experienced pop consumer is no longer easily shocked. He has done the record covers of Jane’s Addiction, Alice Cooper’s woman sacrifice on the scaffold and the hardcore videos and performances of the industrial era. "Sex 'n' Pop" provides a chronicle of the scandals and goes through the process of forming opinions. When is a taboo break really morally reprehensible and when does it contain artistic statements, bring knowledge or comment on social developments? If pop culture is youth culture, how adult must it be? Again and again youth protection and censorship authorities get individual publications from the market.