ENTERTAINMENT / Music/Theater
Britney's knickers 'degrading' - watchdog
(NZPA)
Updated: 2007-05-29 16:47
Seven complaints over a billboard featuring Britney Spears climbing out
of a car with her private parts covered by large blue knickers has been
upheld by the Advertising Standards Authority.
The billboard for Sky TV carried the headline: Something Everyone Wants
To See.
Britney Spears [Reuters]
One of the complainants, A. Harper, said the billboard was offensive with
"a huge picture of Britney Spears with her legs spread eagled, the camera
angle looking up her skirt, and a drawing of underwear covering her
private parts."
The complainant said the picture was crude and represented women as sex
objects.
The chairman of the authority ruled the complaints fell under the
principle that advertisements should not use sex appeal in a manner
exploitative and degrading to sell products.
Lawyers for Sky and its advertising agency DDB New Zealand said it
appeared the seven complainants were unaware Spears had been pictured in
Hollywood last year getting out of a car wearing a miniskirt and no
knickers.
The picture caused a frenzy and "there is little doubt Ms Spears did all
this deliberately �C she is a person who does outlandish things for
publicity.
The object of the billboard, the lawyers said, was to use the picture to
"say people wouldn't want to see `Britney's bits' (hence the knicker
coverup) but there was something they would want to see on Sky."
The lawyers said the billboard was not outside the rules governing such
advertising.
"There will always be advertisements which offend some people and it is
accepted that each of the seven complainants has been offended.
"However, there will be many people in Auckland who have seen the
billboard and have known the background and are not offended."
The board said the billboard on a railway bridge at the intersection of
Parnell Rise and Stanley St in Auckland would be visible to a
wide-ranging audience.
The majority of the board said the use of large cartoon-type knickers to
"censor" the actual photo used imagery with "sexual overtones in a manner
which exploited and degraded women."
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