No Doubt pulled their music video for ‘Looking Hot’ from YouTube over racism claims on the Wild West themed video. Do you think the video is racist? Watch!
After a triumphant return to the music scene, No Doubt is now facing claims that their music video for “Looking Hot” is racist, featuring Gwen Stefani dressed as a Native American, gets tied up by cowboys and cavorts a wolf.
Complaints from fans and the Native American community caused the video to be yanked from YouTube. Now, the band is apologizing for the mishap.
“Being hurtful to anyone is simply not who we are. As a multi-racial band our foundation is built upon both diversity and consideration for other cultures. Our intention with our new video was never to offend, hurt or trivialize Native American people, their culture or their history. Although we consulted with Native American friends and Native American studies experts at the University of California, we realize now that we have offended people. This is of great concern to us and we are removing the video immediately. The music that inspired us when we started the band, and the community of friends, family, and fans that surrounds us was built upon respect, unity and inclusiveness. We sincerely apologize to the Native American community and anyone else offended by this video,” the band posted on their website.
What do YOU think, HollywoodLifers? Is the video racist?
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Cindy
Posted at 10:17 PM on January 31, 2013
In the clips I watched of this video, I view it as not only racist it glorifies violence against women as being “hot”. Sexualizing violence against women is not cool. A non-Indian dressed in a cross section of regalia is offensive, given the role of regalia in Indigenous cultures. Just as Christians wear crosses, and nuns wear habits, and the pope wears his crown, Indigenous people wear symbols of their religious values, some must work a life time to wear certain symbols to represent their spiritual journey.If this video had displayed a woman dressed in a nuns outfit, tied up, with men looking like Jesus rubbing crosses across her body as a means of rape/fantasy/foreplay, I think people would understand how degrading the images of this video. The rape and murder of Native American women is a historically tragic event that is rarely discussed or debated in main stream America, but it is a fact, with long term historical truama and horrible outcomes for Native American women and children. This video reminds me of the bill boards of a beaten woman in chains with the logo of “I’m Black and Blue for the Rolling Stones”. In almost thirty years, violence against women is still sexualized in the media, the sombering thought is the women on this blog do not see the violence…and probably have little awareness of how much it impacts their lives, or their daughters.