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Mariah Carey - #1's

Final score:

107points

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Bianka Nagy 7 years ago

I need this magic trick to hide my double chin on photos! :D

84points

LizzyM 7 years ago

A VERY fluffy kitty will do the trick it seems

12points

Monika Belbo 7 years ago

But not MC

0points

Erika Broman 7 years ago

WE will just carry around a fluffy Persian cat. :)

0points

Kyan De Catfish 7 years ago

Meez 2

0points

Lorin Mihai 7 years ago

hahah

0points

Clare McDuff 7 years ago

This doesn't seem right. So much more of her pussy is showing in the second pic 😹

23points

Melissa Nunya 7 years ago

Slow clap ;)

4points

nameme the undieing 7 years ago

the cat is a alien monster slowly consuming her body he has constricted his body around her like I python by the time they got to the mid east by the time they reach china it will be all cat

9points

Sherlock Holmes 7 years ago

Cat has used EXPAND. It's very effective!

8points

Jennifer Jenkins 7 years ago

That's one giant f*****g cat

1point

Dima Less 7 years ago

The progression of the cat lichen expansion in 2 stages

1point

Macky Pamintuan 7 years ago

Murder cat is adorable.

0points

Jakki Wetherall 7 years ago

Sad, not even allowed to see naked shoulders!

0points

Jane Eyre 7 years ago

This one doesn't even make sense ... is the kitten melting?

0points

Jane Eyre 7 years ago

This one doesn't even make sense! Is that kitten melting

0points

John Doe 7 years ago

The cat grew on Mariah.

0points

Kikka io 7 years ago

is not a cat, is a tribolo

0points

SexyDivitModel 7 years ago

https://www.boredpanda.com/goa-female-escorts-about-independent-escorts-services/

0points

Cynthia Decker 7 years ago

Fluffalanche

0points

Glenna Wheatley 7 years ago

You totally forgot to cover her HAIR! It drives Muslim men CRAZY so women have to cover it.

0points

Ashley Doherty 7 years ago

Thats a large white cat!

0points

Oscar 7 years ago

WTF XD

0points

JoSta Urban 7 years ago

Wow that's one seriously big cat...

0points

Iris Chacón 7 years ago

That's a big pussy

0points

Tron 0 7 years ago

One big furry cat.

0points

Mistrz Varflock 7 years ago

Whoah, that's an amazingly fluffy cat.

-1point

Michel Angelo 7 years ago

The cat is absorbing her!

-1point

giovanna 7 years ago

Cat overload

-1point

Genevieve Gates 7 years ago

Wow, I want the cat in the 2nd image!

-1point

Oliver Gloxin 7 years ago

Obese cat to the rescue!

-1point

Susan Stella 7 years ago

Haha very fluffy cat!

-1point

Allana Rose 7 years ago

That's one furry pussycat!!

-1point

LSR 7 years ago

This one is worse. Her pussy is so big it reaches her chin!

-1point

Maja Lange 7 years ago

LOL

-1point

Anubha Modi 7 years ago

If naked arms are also obscene or vulgar (however they like to describe it) then Why didn't they even covered the face?? 😱😨

-1point

Linda Brown 7 years ago

I do like the first one better, second one too much of an exaggeration of the kitty

-1point

Allison Woodfill 7 years ago

That's right no skin showing

-1point

Alberto Curutchet 7 years ago

That's a big pussy...

-1point

Lorin Mihai 7 years ago

LOL.. that cat is eating Mariah! Someone help her! xD

-1point

Seong Jin 7 years ago

That cat is FLUFFY

-1point

Shiritoru 7 years ago

Does the cat choke her?

-1point

Cheryl Fontaine 7 years ago

If that's Mariah Carey I'll eat my desk.

-2points

Pool Ad

Final score:

106points

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Valentina 7 years ago

So...in the Middle East it is OK for Winny the Pooh to marry Barney and adopt/have 3 surrogate kids! Legendary!!

161points

Shakira - Oral Fixation

Final score:

106points

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boredhuman 7 years ago

this could be a ladyshave commecial. after and before...

100points

Justin Bieber - Purpose

Final score:

105points

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Naima Ivansdóttir 7 years ago

MUCH better

256points

Britney Spears - Oops!...I Did It Again

Final score:

88points

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Naima Ivansdóttir 7 years ago

much better - why add ridiculously shopped tops and clothes?

57points

Christina Aguilera - Stripped

Final score:

84points

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Bianka Nagy 7 years ago

Christina Aguilera - Dressed

222points

Lady Gaga - Do What U Want

Final score:

80points

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ADHORTATOR 7 years ago

Do what u want - the answer is NO!

33points

Nirvana - Nevermind

Final score:

73points

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didi 7 years ago

I have 2 cassette tapes of this album from the early 90s in Saudi: one with white shorts and the other with black ones!

77points

#10

Miley Cyrus - Bangerz

Final score:

63points

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Shiritoru 7 years ago

Rebellious nun. :))

68points

#11

Mariah Carey - Butterfly

Final score:

62points

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Chalie 7 years ago

Well, they tried...

46points

#12

Britney Spears Greatest Hits: My Prerogative

Final score:

61points

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Anni 7 years ago

Jon Snow

125points

#13

Jennifer Paige - Jennifer Paige

Final score:

57points

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M O'Connell 7 years ago

At least it's done better than many of the others. And it's a legit style. I probably wouldn't have noticed.

64points

#14

Rihanna's Perfume Ad In Kuwait

Final score:

54points

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Nora 7 years ago

the second one looks bettee

43points

#15

Lady Gaga - Artpop

Final score:

51points

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Adogcalledkitty 7 years ago

But you can see her shoulder! 😱

113points

#16

Riana Grande - My Everything

Final score:

50points

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Darthsofia 7 years ago

I wish they could fix her huge shoe instead

81points

#17

Censored Floaties In Saudi Arabia

Final score:

49points

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ADHORTATOR 7 years ago

The guy who imports broad sharpies must be billionaire!

112points

#18

Lady Gaga - The Remix

Final score:

43points

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Tijana Skrbic 7 years ago

Lol even the headlines are changed

50points

#19

Gisele Bundchen's H&M Ad Campaign Censored For Middle East

Final score:

39points

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Dima Less 7 years ago

Lol, can someone please explain me why make an Ad campaign for the countries where nobody will be allowed to wear this s**t?

122points

#20

Madonna - Hard Candy

Final score:

36points

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Jess Gore 7 years ago

They forgot to put a bag over her head.

73points

#21

Toni Braxton - More Than A Woman

Final score:

34points

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Bianka Nagy 7 years ago

More than a woman, less than a man, apparently... go ahead, give me all the thumbs down :)

30points

#22

Mariah Carey - The Art Of Letting Go

Final score:

33points

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Hannah Garner 7 years ago

Honestly, looks better the second way..

42points

#23

Kylie Minogue - Light Years

Final score:

33points

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Kane Cheung 7 years ago

Mystique

48points

#24

Geri Halliwell - Scream If You Wanna Go Faster

Final score:

33points

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Its da Latest 7 years ago

Flash?

55points

#25

Jennifer Lopez - On The 6

Final score:

32points

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Kane Cheung 7 years ago

Someone painted every album cover?

41points

#26

Melanie B - Hot

Final score:

30points

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Dima Less 7 years ago

Melanie B - Not that hot

18points

#27

Shakira - Shakira

Final score:

29points

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Vickie Martin 7 years ago

Can't make Shakira look bad.

29points

#28

Mariah Carey - #1's

Final score:

29points

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Yezid Puerto 7 years ago

that 70's album

33points

#29

Back Cover Of Taylor Swift's 'Speak Now'

Final score:

28points

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Anni 7 years ago

Yes, dark blue the obvious choice...

96points

#30

Gloria Estefan - Abriendo Puertas

Final score:

26points

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Zenozenobee 7 years ago

Come on! the original one was way less provocative than the Lady Gaga remix cover after they added strips!

92points

#31

Mariah Carey - Glitter

Final score:

21points

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3ke 7 years ago

More SPARKLES!

15points

#32

Katy Perry - One Of The Boys

Final score:

21points

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Vickie Martin 7 years ago

No kidding...she can kiss a girl and like it but not be seen in shorts ahahaha

34points

Toni Braxton - The Heat

Final score:

21points

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Corinne Wiedemann 7 years ago

This one actually isn't too bad

33points

#34

Clarks Ad In Kuwait On The Left (It Is Allowed To Show Knees And Women Without A Headscarf) And In Saudi Arabia On The Right (It's Not Allowed)

Final score:

21points

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Celeste Spaniel 7 years ago

Now it looks like she has giant feet too! :P

45points

#35

Sex Pistols - Flogging A Dead Horse

Final score:

19points

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Shauday Smith 7 years ago

sex pistols got in there?

27points

#36

Britney Spears - Circus

Final score:

19points

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Vickie Martin 7 years ago

Ughly

11points

#37

Mariah Carey - Mariah Carey

Final score:

18points

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Tiu Tau Tilhi 7 years ago

This one makes it look like they gave her a boobjob, as well!

5points

#38

Shakira - Laundry Service

Final score:

18points

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Kate Brannan 7 years ago

Strange that women in the music business have to get their baps out and show this much skin when thr same isnt expected of men. Not saying skin censorship is the way, however. We need to ask ourselves, why? Oh yeah, sex sells. And i thought that it was the music which spoke for itself. Obv im muchos wrong, wrong, wrong xx

37points

#39

Mariah Carey - Rainbow

Final score:

17points

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Shauday Smith 7 years ago

they gave her capris! inconceivable!

23points

#40

Rihanna - Unapologetic

Final score:

17points

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Ariane Galloway 7 years ago

From "Unapologetic" to "A Little Apologetic" :P

35points

Britney Spears - Britney

Final score:

16points

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Hallak65 7 years ago

Her arms look wierd.

6points

#42

This Huge Advertisement With Blurred Woman's Face In A Mall Of Jeddah

Final score:

15points

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Marie 7 years ago

So sad

91points

#43

Shakira - She Wolf

Final score:

14points

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Talise Snyder 7 years ago

"Oriental Edition?"

6points

#44

Censored Marie Claire Magazine In Saudi Arabia

Final score:

14points

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Sarah Lennie 7 years ago

Seriously, what's the point?

26points

#45

Solid Harmonie - I'll Be There For You

Final score:

12points

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Hallak65 7 years ago

Give a like, if you heard about this band before. Only 90s kids will remember :D

12points

#46

Tlc - Unpretty

Final score:

12points

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Kate Brannan 7 years ago

This is the first iv ever heard about this Sharpie form of fashiom. Maybe its cos... As long as the records are getting sold, no artist actually really minds. Lesson learned= money is the real religion of the masses x

7points

#47

Demi Lovato - Demi

Final score:

11points

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Αδαμαντία Αδαμαντία 7 years ago

They also hide the cross!

12points

#48

Mariah Carey - Emotions

Final score:

9points

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Corinne Wiedemann 7 years ago

This one makes no sense

7points

Hasna - Bamba

Final score:

9points

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Aubrie Allen 7 years ago

It's actually kinda cute the way she wore it in the second pic.

8points

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MidS 7 years ago

This is interesting. I've lived in Dubai all my life and this never happens here. Our tabloids are filled with pictures you'd deem 'westernized'. I find the title misleading. Not every Middle East country is like this.

49points

Rotem Koizumi YazawaKousakatamir 7 years ago

same about Israel

17points

Bo Ek 7 years ago

These are all fake click baits. I challenge anyone who disagree to find one single link from any middle east music online store with a middle east top domain containing any of the censored pictures in the post....

2points

Hasan ali (MaDoZSiDE) 7 years ago

I am Saudi, and it is all over the place here LOL!

2points

Sarah Hf 7 years ago

Yeah it's very misleading. Countries like turkey , Lebanon don't have such issues .I think it mainly Saudi , golf countries thing.

1point

Lu 7 years ago

That's a good point.

1point

Jeanne Richard 7 years ago

I was pretty skeptical of the article and edits, glad to hear from not just you, but others here from some of the countries out there.

0points

Hayley Lightcap 7 years ago

Which countries do practice the whole 'westernized' thing?

0points

Jkcanewton 7 years ago

I see the covers, but what about the lyrics? They are just as bad sometimes. I'm really surprised that some of these are even sold there.

29points

Adam Havlík 7 years ago

Hanzo, all I meant was that the English lyrics might not be considered as offensive as these images because English isn't a first language there. Most of the world sings English-language songs they don't necessarily understand - I see it here in the Czech Republic every day...

12points

Adam Havlík 7 years ago

Sorry, typo - I meant English-speaking 'countries'

1point

panda 7 years ago

They did not learn English yet, so the lyrics are fine. Then after they will probably play just the music 😂

-2points

Adam Havlík 7 years ago

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Cindy Martinson 7 years ago

Although i don't agree with such a degred of censorship it does remove some if not most of the objectification of woman. The objectification of any living creature is disgusting.

19points

Rivkaka 7 years ago

One of the women is literally morphed into a beachball. A beachball = a woman seems like the literal definition of objectification....

26points

jha13 7 years ago

Disgusting as the genital mutilation and stoning of women that happen on islamic midle eastern countries. Feminisn is incompatible with Islam.

6points

Ehsan Es 7 years ago

This! Thank you for this! Not all countries in middle-east wear hijabs and I'm not opinionated they should, but west is as a matter of fact the opposite evil.

3points

Heather K. 7 years ago

Not to mention the blatant photo editing to make the women appear thinner, curvier, more "appealing" (unrealistic).

2points

Mars 7 years ago

all this has done is made me realise how popstars feel the need to dress provocatively to sell

17points

nuttyballoon 7 years ago

An improvement for the world of pop music. Let the music sell itself!

5points

Naima Ivansdóttir 7 years ago

mariah carey's already SO shopped you can barely notice the differences :D

13points

Maciek Ravs 7 years ago

This article is somehow biased.. 90 % of it is about some naked shallow pop stars.. Most people are tierd of them anyway.. Show how regular women are totally cuted out from public apparence like in the case of IKEA catalogue.

12points

Maciek Ravs 7 years ago

http://www.marcelgagne.com/content/ikea-and-starbucks-bow-down-islamic-misogyny

1point

Amy Tarleton 7 years ago

I'm all for free speech and expression, but MODEST IS HOTTEST. The photoshops are ridiculous, but yay for modesty.

11points

Helen Clayton 7 years ago

Agreed!

4points

José Alejandro Díaz Bravo 7 years ago

That made me think... why so many women skin in music album covers? isn't those about music?

10points

Rosa Greyhound 7 years ago

Because to put it simply, skin sells. It's worse with women but often you will see a shirtless man on album covers e.g. Justin Bieber

2points

Miklós Nagy 7 years ago

Solomon the wise said it once, those who hate women's body are in love with guys.

10points

BRTiger 7 years ago

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Isaura Scarlet 7 years ago

This censorship make me sick.

9points

Isaura Scarlet 7 years ago

Makes*

0points

Vincent Tiggelman 7 years ago

All that money and they couldn't pay for any decent photoshoppers?

8points

Sheralyn 7 years ago

Actually you know what. Just zoom in on everyone's face and you're good.

5points

Blue Cicada 7 years ago

In US we're obsessed w appearances of women, judge their character by their clothing, encourage them to expose their skin. Brains? Who cares

4points

David Bonanno 7 years ago

So you want women's brains exposed instead?? Gross!

0points

Julie Julie 7 years ago

1) this makes me realize how many music related products showcase half naked (or fully naked) females - quite sad really when you're supposedly selling your voice 2) they should up skill their image editing staff because many of those are very poorly made

4points

Maciek Ravs 7 years ago

You can add to this list Ikea catalog and Starbucks logo... presence of women not allowed. Google it.

3points

Maciek Ravs 7 years ago

http://www.marcelgagne.com/content/ikea-and-starbucks-bow-down-islamic-misogyny

1point

Jerry Mathers 7 years ago

I'm curious how they censor the internet in countries like this. Do they block sites or just have a group of approved websites to visit.

3points

Sweep the Leg 7 years ago

"Bad" sites are censored, but everyone knows how to get around it. My Turkish students had no shame telling me they knew how to get around the blocks to access porn.

2points

Bo Ek 7 years ago

This is b******t. Fake click baits. If I'm wrong, please show me one single link to a "middle east" music site containing any of the censored version in this post....

2points

Virgil Blue 7 years ago

Kind of related: I work in advertising and for the Arabian version of a box of Dutch stroopwafels we had to replace the image of a painted tile featuring an antique drawing of a Dutch boy and girl in wooden shoes kissing with something else because the because our customer was told shops would refuse to sell them otherwise. Other images if a windmill, boat and guy on a horse were fine. The boxes are currently in pre production so I'm not allowed to show you at this time for job reasons.

1point

Alice Teen 7 years ago

I'd say they showed mercy on Lady Gaga...

2points

Linda Martin 7 years ago

Some of the cover-ups are pretty bad. I am surprised the artists don't just do 2 cover shoots. One for each market. It would be much better for their image and they would have creative control.

2points

Pedro Taiô 7 years ago

bieber cover is better in MW

2points

Mishka 7 years ago

This is interesting. I just remembered they also censored the ad of Givenchy's "Ange ou demon" perfume, moreover then even changed the name to "Ange ou etrange". Apparently, it is forbidden to even mention a demon. ange-59415...d72959.jpg

2points

Cees Timmerman 7 years ago

Occultism!

0points

Greg Easter 7 years ago

It isn't the Middle Eastern governments that are doing this, people. It is the companies marketing there. They could refuse to change the art, but they cave in to these bass-ackward retards.

1point

Yokai Fuzen 7 years ago

this is exaggerated they don't have this much of censoring however censoring is everywhere go see the difference between yugioh cards in japan and usa

1point

Darlene Patrick 7 years ago

Horrid photoshop...looks like scratch tickets

1point

Ron DeFulio II 7 years ago

Repost this as a photoshop-fail article and you'll have a winner, lol.

1point

Diane Moffatt 7 years ago

I must be getting old - I prefer the second images - the others look kind of cheap.

1point

Patrick Dilla 7 years ago

One thing's for sure about here. Mariah Carey's albums are rocking the Middle East!

1point

İdil 7 years ago

It maybe okay for the other stuff, but the albums? They are artists, if you don't like what they created, then simply just don't sell it.

1point

Rhiannon Jane 4 weeks ago

The pearl clutchers really came out in force for some of the comments on this post.

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Ken Anderson 5 years ago

Religious observance takes many forms and I have no quarrel with how any one person chooses to worship or keep faith. But the imposition of those beliefs on others who would otherwise choose another means of expressing their faith--be it the wearing of a hijab in Saudi Arabia or reproductive rights in the USA--is simply tyranny. And such tyranny does not prove the strength of their leaders' convictions, but rather their doubts in a faith weak enough to require being propped up by legal punishments. It brings shame upon them and diminishes God.

0points

Hollie Wagers 7 years ago

I don't buy it. Who is taking the time to censor all these products? Do you know how long that would take...😂

0points

Charles Fayad 7 years ago

Yo u should see Lebanon it's becoming distracting for drivers the ads we don t have this cover

0points

Charles Fayad 7 years ago

Yo u should see Lebanon same advertising as western all bikinis

0points

Marvel Yana 7 years ago

I´m surprised that they didnt covered Shakira, Christina and Britney with a bloody burka ...

0points

Mohamed Khashaba 7 years ago

From Egypt ... and i've never saw Such Stupidity

0points

Sofien Trimech 7 years ago

I'm Tunisian and I've never seen this before, this may exist In Saudi Arabia or Kuwait, something like that :D :D :D

0points

Omar Okeil 7 years ago

While I definitely find these photos ridiculously outrageous, I'm also kind of sad to notice how sexualized the music industry has become, leaving little room for original artists who won't show skin for a living, regardless of how talented they are. "I make music for ears, not eyes." Adele.

0points

Vice Grey 7 years ago

It's a lie, to some degree on music albums at least here in Lebanon, if there is skin showing it'd still look the same on the album but if there is any religious reference; example a picture of the mother Mary it'd just be vandalized or colored over with paint and/or marker, it's moronic I agree but hey that's just the way it works here apparently.

0points

Tech Addict 7 years ago

These are all fake.. Bad photoshop work.. Common boredpanda where are your editors?

0points

John Doe 7 years ago

I need to say that this is exclusive to Saudi Arabia, a lot of other Middle eastern countries like Jordan, Lebanon and Syria, don't use such brainless censoring.

0points

Sherri Robinson 7 years ago

How do we know that this is accurate? Where is this info from? The Lady Gaga album has "ft. R. Kelly" written on bottom of one, what is that about? I don't know how trustworthy this is

0points

Kitty Katty 7 years ago

Wow, why are these censors so scared of women??

0points

Moriah Van't Land 3 years ago

🌸.+Women are said to be the most evil creature in the world, Religions also said they women are evil so they need to be silenced+.🌸

0points

Kikka io 7 years ago

I do not agree with the excessive use of the female body to sell things of every kind, but I also think that a woman must be free to do what she wants with her body, including discovering it if she wants it, in the picture That live. It really makes me angry that women are forced into this sort of cowardice. And the worst thing is that in the Koran it is not written anywhere that the woman must be so mortified, as there is no script, the attacks must be done to honor the prophet, but I do not think anyone who does this has it Bed on the coral, as heard by his religious representative.

0points

Griselle Lugo 7 years ago

What surprises me more is that these artists are not totally censored in these countries. I mean, they censor their album covers but, what about the contents of them? Hmmmm....!!

0points

Martin van der Louw 7 years ago

I think if certain conservative groups (not just in the USA) had it their way we would see the same in the western countries

0points

Jilltdcatlady 7 years ago

I'm for the more modest covers. As an 80s/ 90s teen, a lot of these were the must haves. Now that I'm an adult and they are coming out with Greatest Hits, I feel like a perv because I have a hard time making out the warped print thru the wrapper and case. The concentration on the words look I'm leering at the pics.

0points

Miranda Marie 7 years ago

You people should know this is not the norm for middle eastern countries most of them don't do this.

0points

Miranda Marie 7 years ago

Some of these edits actually look better than the original! (some look down right ridiculous)

0points

R Joseph Owles 7 years ago

The only one that I found interesting was the one where they completely removed the woman (mother?) from the pool and replaced her with an inflatable toy. If they could put extra clothes on the man and the children, why not the woman? Why is she replaced with a thing?

0points

Jerry Joseph 7 years ago

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Emily Sheppard 7 years ago

Honestly, some of these I prefer to the originals.

0points

Doncho Popkrustev 7 years ago

Haha , Nirvana and censorship - that Nevermind cover is soooo badly photoshopped! C'mon guys, Kurt would never allow that s**t! Yes, he agreed to alter song title for Rape Me to be suitable for minors, but covering baby genetalies is absurd!!!

0points

Yasmin Yasin 7 years ago

I don't understand.. The amount of clothes you able to be without= the amount of freedom you have?

0points

Marvel Yana 7 years ago

It´s about the freedom to wear whatever you want. It´s about not considering human body (especially female human body) as a sin just because a bunch of thick-head men say so.

0points

N/A N/A 7 years ago

Apart from the overall sexualization of women that s pretty normal on the media these days (and that's fine, I don't condemn), most of transformations are ridiculous. But as a woman, #44 really makes me sad. As it depicts accurately that woman don't have rights, credit, opinions, freedom, access to values and information, etc, etc, etc as any other human being would (for human being I mean men). Is this the forest we've come? Sad...

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N/A N/A 7 years ago

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Hugo Raible 7 years ago

It's an interesting experiment. Once you get mostly rid of the "sex sells" part, how much ist left? How do sales change if you stop putting naked people on the front?

0points

Katrina Harris 7 years ago

I prefer the censored images... except the beach floats. That was weird. But they look better in the censored versions!

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rick hctep (Rick45) 7 years ago

What a total load of Bol****s, It's different when you see what their menfolk get up to, including the goats and the old men bending over for a young Arab, dirty fu***s all of them but their women can't bare an arm or leg like they did in the 1970's till they voted that Ayertoller ( however it is spelt ) and he took them back a 1000 years.

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Darlene Patrick 7 years ago

Horrible photoshops too. Look like scratch off tickets!

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DeadShade 7 years ago

#23 just looks like someone took a black marker and scribbled over some spots

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Josh Kimmel-Clayton 7 years ago

These are F**king hilarious!

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Betty Morgan Singer 7 years ago

Most of the ones for the Middle-East are really much more beautiful; except the one of the family in the pool, where being fully clothed seems silly.

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Joe Kobersy 7 years ago

Most of these "censored" images are never seen in Middle Easter countries, except for very preservative countries like Saudi Arabia and Iran.

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Joel Rose 7 years ago

59.99 for that Taylor Swift CD though.

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Jim Parrillo 7 years ago

Most of these are all HORRIBLY photoshopped and all with the same errors... (ie. improperly matched lighting and shadows, clothing does not adequately follow body contours) It's really poor quality and not the kind of work that music companies (who HIGHLY scrutinize artist images) usually do when they put together album covers. Makes me think this whole article is a fake.

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Dragan Šprem 7 years ago

What is it with these half naked girls on the CD covers, anyways? Are they selling music, or their bodies? Do they get secret funds from pr0n sites?

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Moriah Van't Land 3 years ago

🌸.+Both+.🌸

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Sondre Strøm Linde 7 years ago

SO FU**ING STUPID.

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Ali Halabi 7 years ago

this is only in Saudi Arabia not the middle east! this doesn't happen in Jordan/ Egypt/ Lebanon/etc...

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Gracita Gouverneur 7 years ago

Watching these I just keep thinking that they have a closet full of clothes handing out to these celebs saying: "here, cover up" or do a close up and they all have frowns on their faces. hahahaha I cant help it.

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Tal Malka 7 years ago

I'm from the middle east... Never seen these bs!

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Avigayil Spero 7 years ago

That's because you're Israeli. C'mon now

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Ankaj Sharma 7 years ago

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Dolan Nohere 7 years ago

This literally looks like the photoshop work of a 14 year old on a 2 day adderall bender. Jesus christ.

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Chey West 7 years ago

Most of these are just really poorly photoshopped.

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BRTiger 7 years ago

this s**t shouldn't even be allowed in the middle east to begin with. if americans love to create cultural garbage, better keep it to themselves.

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Sarah Lennie 7 years ago

They didn't force overseas companies to buy; supply and demand... If the culture offends so much, remove yourself from the Internet.

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Dima Less 7 years ago

I'm happy I don't live there

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Yasmin Yasin 7 years ago

Yeah a great job with great salary , paid vacation, free healthcare and no taxes, that's the worst!

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Yasmin Yasin 7 years ago

This is pretty ridiculous, most of these ads have shirts photoshopped onto the men and blurred out the children's face.. it's not a sexist thing if it's being done to everybody. They blur out a child's face so you say they are against children? It's about having a religion and following that teaching that tells us to be modest. I feel bad for women that show off all their body to feel beautiful or to get attention from men. See the difference for a man to see a woman's body and be attracted or for a man to be attracted to her face and personality. It's disrespectful for a woman to show her body , but not because it "offends" men, it offends the lady because she has dignity she feels shame. Don't you think men would rather us women all walk around naked? I have an hourglass body but I feel no need to show it off to the world, I break out my tight dress when my husband gets home , because his opinion is the only one that matters to me. I would feel really uncomfortable with men staring:/

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Belinda Matson 7 years ago

Why not blur the mans face too? Reminded me of the phrase "Children should be seen & not heard" but THIS is "Only men will be seen & heard"

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Emmanouil Trigenis 7 years ago

Yasmin Yasin , it seems you are in complete denial!! You may be right with the west sometimes overdoing it when showing skin, but it's their right to do so. Maybe it bothers you that women in other countries actually have rights and are not someone's property like poor women in most Islamic countries are!! Look again lady. There are not any blurred children's or men's faces only women's. In the pool ad the woman is replaced with a beach ball. You think is out of respect? Think again. Are men then disrespected when their face or bodies are shown?Who are men are trying to seduce with their face and bodies? Maybe other women.Fair would be if also men hid their faces and could only be seen in the house by the wives. You call this freedom?I don't think so. Google Islamic countries in the 70s before the talibans came before you answer me.Its your right to live like a slave but don't try and convince us that our way is actually worst than what you are daily living.

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Moriah Van't Land 3 years ago

🌸.+Women only have the right to die+.🌸

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Bob 2.0 7 years ago

Raaaaaacist....

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Bob 2.0 7 years ago

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Inga Ko (Post author) 7 years ago

There are always sources provided at the bottom of each image, but you have to understand that sometimes it's just impossible to find some of them. Also, if there's a big doubt about the realness of an image, we simply don't put it in the post. If you know any source that I didn't link, let me know, it will be fixed immediately. Capture-59...b6d2b4.jpg

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Adam Havlík 7 years ago

Says the one who thinks the Middle East is a country.

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MidS 7 years ago

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Rotem Koizumi YazawaKousakatamir 7 years ago

same about Israel

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Bo Ek 7 years ago

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Hasan ali (MaDoZSiDE) 7 years ago

I am Saudi, and it is all over the place here LOL!

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Sarah Hf 7 years ago

Yeah it's very misleading. Countries like turkey , Lebanon don't have such issues .I think it mainly Saudi , golf countries thing.

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Lu 7 years ago

That's a good point.

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Jeanne Richard 7 years ago

I was pretty skeptical of the article and edits, glad to hear from not just you, but others here from some of the countries out there.

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Hayley Lightcap 7 years ago

Which countries do practice the whole 'westernized' thing?

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Jkcanewton 7 years ago

I see the covers, but what about the lyrics? They are just as bad sometimes. I'm really surprised that some of these are even sold there.

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Adam Havlík 7 years ago

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Adam Havlík 7 years ago

Sorry, typo - I meant English-speaking 'countries'

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panda 7 years ago

They did not learn English yet, so the lyrics are fine. Then after they will probably play just the music 😂

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Cindy Martinson 7 years ago

Although i don't agree with such a degred of censorship it does remove some if not most of the objectification of woman. The objectification of any living creature is disgusting.

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Rivkaka 7 years ago

One of the women is literally morphed into a beachball. A beachball = a woman seems like the literal definition of objectification....

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jha13 7 years ago

Disgusting as the genital mutilation and stoning of women that happen on islamic midle eastern countries. Feminisn is incompatible with Islam.

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Ehsan Es 7 years ago

This! Thank you for this! Not all countries in middle-east wear hijabs and I'm not opinionated they should, but west is as a matter of fact the opposite evil.

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Heather K. 7 years ago

Not to mention the blatant photo editing to make the women appear thinner, curvier, more "appealing" (unrealistic).

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Mars 7 years ago

all this has done is made me realise how popstars feel the need to dress provocatively to sell

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nuttyballoon 7 years ago

An improvement for the world of pop music. Let the music sell itself!

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Naima Ivansdóttir 7 years ago

mariah carey's already SO shopped you can barely notice the differences :D

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Maciek Ravs 7 years ago

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Maciek Ravs 7 years ago

http://www.marcelgagne.com/content/ikea-and-starbucks-bow-down-islamic-misogyny

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Amy Tarleton 7 years ago

I'm all for free speech and expression, but MODEST IS HOTTEST. The photoshops are ridiculous, but yay for modesty.

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Helen Clayton 7 years ago

Agreed!

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José Alejandro Díaz Bravo 7 years ago

That made me think... why so many women skin in music album covers? isn't those about music?

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Rosa Greyhound 7 years ago

Because to put it simply, skin sells. It's worse with women but often you will see a shirtless man on album covers e.g. Justin Bieber

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Miklós Nagy 7 years ago

Solomon the wise said it once, those who hate women's body are in love with guys.

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BRTiger 7 years ago

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Isaura Scarlet 7 years ago

This censorship make me sick.

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Isaura Scarlet 7 years ago

Makes*

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Vincent Tiggelman 7 years ago

All that money and they couldn't pay for any decent photoshoppers?

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Sheralyn 7 years ago

Actually you know what. Just zoom in on everyone's face and you're good.

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Blue Cicada 7 years ago

In US we're obsessed w appearances of women, judge their character by their clothing, encourage them to expose their skin. Brains? Who cares

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David Bonanno 7 years ago

So you want women's brains exposed instead?? Gross!

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Julie Julie 7 years ago

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Maciek Ravs 7 years ago

You can add to this list Ikea catalog and Starbucks logo... presence of women not allowed. Google it.

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Maciek Ravs 7 years ago

http://www.marcelgagne.com/content/ikea-and-starbucks-bow-down-islamic-misogyny

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Jerry Mathers 7 years ago

I'm curious how they censor the internet in countries like this. Do they block sites or just have a group of approved websites to visit.

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Sweep the Leg 7 years ago

"Bad" sites are censored, but everyone knows how to get around it. My Turkish students had no shame telling me they knew how to get around the blocks to access porn.

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Bo Ek 7 years ago

This is b******t. Fake click baits. If I'm wrong, please show me one single link to a "middle east" music site containing any of the censored version in this post....

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Virgil Blue 7 years ago

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Alice Teen 7 years ago

I'd say they showed mercy on Lady Gaga...

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Linda Martin 7 years ago

Some of the cover-ups are pretty bad. I am surprised the artists don't just do 2 cover shoots. One for each market. It would be much better for their image and they would have creative control.

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Pedro Taiô 7 years ago

bieber cover is better in MW

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Mishka 7 years ago

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Cees Timmerman 7 years ago

Occultism!

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Greg Easter 7 years ago

It isn't the Middle Eastern governments that are doing this, people. It is the companies marketing there. They could refuse to change the art, but they cave in to these bass-ackward retards.

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Yokai Fuzen 7 years ago

this is exaggerated they don't have this much of censoring however censoring is everywhere go see the difference between yugioh cards in japan and usa

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Darlene Patrick 7 years ago

Horrid photoshop...looks like scratch tickets

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Ron DeFulio II 7 years ago

Repost this as a photoshop-fail article and you'll have a winner, lol.

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Diane Moffatt 7 years ago

I must be getting old - I prefer the second images - the others look kind of cheap.

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Patrick Dilla 7 years ago

One thing's for sure about here. Mariah Carey's albums are rocking the Middle East!

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İdil 7 years ago

It maybe okay for the other stuff, but the albums? They are artists, if you don't like what they created, then simply just don't sell it.

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Rhiannon Jane 4 weeks ago

The pearl clutchers really came out in force for some of the comments on this post.

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Hollie Wagers 7 years ago

I don't buy it. Who is taking the time to censor all these products? Do you know how long that would take...😂

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Charles Fayad 7 years ago

Yo u should see Lebanon it's becoming distracting for drivers the ads we don t have this cover

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Charles Fayad 7 years ago

Yo u should see Lebanon same advertising as western all bikinis

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Marvel Yana 7 years ago

I´m surprised that they didnt covered Shakira, Christina and Britney with a bloody burka ...

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Mohamed Khashaba 7 years ago

From Egypt ... and i've never saw Such Stupidity

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Sofien Trimech 7 years ago

I'm Tunisian and I've never seen this before, this may exist In Saudi Arabia or Kuwait, something like that :D :D :D

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Omar Okeil 7 years ago

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Tech Addict 7 years ago

These are all fake.. Bad photoshop work.. Common boredpanda where are your editors?

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John Doe 7 years ago

I need to say that this is exclusive to Saudi Arabia, a lot of other Middle eastern countries like Jordan, Lebanon and Syria, don't use such brainless censoring.

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Sherri Robinson 7 years ago

How do we know that this is accurate? Where is this info from? The Lady Gaga album has "ft. R. Kelly" written on bottom of one, what is that about? I don't know how trustworthy this is

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Kitty Katty 7 years ago

Wow, why are these censors so scared of women??

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Moriah Van't Land 3 years ago

🌸.+Women are said to be the most evil creature in the world, Religions also said they women are evil so they need to be silenced+.🌸

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Griselle Lugo 7 years ago

What surprises me more is that these artists are not totally censored in these countries. I mean, they censor their album covers but, what about the contents of them? Hmmmm....!!

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Martin van der Louw 7 years ago

I think if certain conservative groups (not just in the USA) had it their way we would see the same in the western countries

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Jilltdcatlady 7 years ago

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Miranda Marie 7 years ago

You people should know this is not the norm for middle eastern countries most of them don't do this.

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Miranda Marie 7 years ago

Some of these edits actually look better than the original! (some look down right ridiculous)

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R Joseph Owles 7 years ago

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Jerry Joseph 7 years ago

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Emily Sheppard 7 years ago

Honestly, some of these I prefer to the originals.

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Doncho Popkrustev 7 years ago

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Yasmin Yasin 7 years ago

I don't understand.. The amount of clothes you able to be without= the amount of freedom you have?

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Marvel Yana 7 years ago

It´s about the freedom to wear whatever you want. It´s about not considering human body (especially female human body) as a sin just because a bunch of thick-head men say so.

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Hugo Raible 7 years ago

It's an interesting experiment. Once you get mostly rid of the "sex sells" part, how much ist left? How do sales change if you stop putting naked people on the front?

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Katrina Harris 7 years ago

I prefer the censored images... except the beach floats. That was weird. But they look better in the censored versions!

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rick hctep (Rick45) 7 years ago

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Darlene Patrick 7 years ago

Horrible photoshops too. Look like scratch off tickets!

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DeadShade 7 years ago

#23 just looks like someone took a black marker and scribbled over some spots

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Josh Kimmel-Clayton 7 years ago

These are F**king hilarious!

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Betty Morgan Singer 7 years ago

Most of the ones for the Middle-East are really much more beautiful; except the one of the family in the pool, where being fully clothed seems silly.

0points

Joe Kobersy 7 years ago

Most of these "censored" images are never seen in Middle Easter countries, except for very preservative countries like Saudi Arabia and Iran.

0points

Joel Rose 7 years ago

59.99 for that Taylor Swift CD though.

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Jim Parrillo 7 years ago

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Dragan Šprem 7 years ago

What is it with these half naked girls on the CD covers, anyways? Are they selling music, or their bodies? Do they get secret funds from pr0n sites?

0points

Moriah Van't Land 3 years ago

🌸.+Both+.🌸

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Sondre Strøm Linde 7 years ago

SO FU**ING STUPID.

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Ali Halabi 7 years ago

this is only in Saudi Arabia not the middle east! this doesn't happen in Jordan/ Egypt/ Lebanon/etc...

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Gracita Gouverneur 7 years ago

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Tal Malka 7 years ago

I'm from the middle east... Never seen these bs!

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Avigayil Spero 7 years ago

That's because you're Israeli. C'mon now

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Ankaj Sharma 7 years ago

http://www.dailynewstrend.news/

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Dolan Nohere 7 years ago

This literally looks like the photoshop work of a 14 year old on a 2 day adderall bender. Jesus christ.

0points

Chey West 7 years ago

Most of these are just really poorly photoshopped.

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BRTiger 7 years ago

this s**t shouldn't even be allowed in the middle east to begin with. if americans love to create cultural garbage, better keep it to themselves.

0points

Sarah Lennie 7 years ago

They didn't force overseas companies to buy; supply and demand... If the culture offends so much, remove yourself from the Internet.

3points

Dima Less 7 years ago

I'm happy I don't live there

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Yasmin Yasin 7 years ago

Yeah a great job with great salary , paid vacation, free healthcare and no taxes, that's the worst!

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Yasmin Yasin 7 years ago

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Belinda Matson 7 years ago

Why not blur the mans face too? Reminded me of the phrase "Children should be seen & not heard" but THIS is "Only men will be seen & heard"

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Emmanouil Trigenis 7 years ago

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Moriah Van't Land 3 years ago

🌸.+Women only have the right to die+.🌸

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Bob 2.0 7 years ago

Raaaaaacist....

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Bob 2.0 7 years ago

You must be fun at parties.

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Adam Havlík 7 years ago

Says the one who thinks the Middle East is a country.

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