It’s not every week, or every year you see an Irish music video with nudity or graphic sex scenes. We’re still a prudish country after all, and a small one. Spice Burger’s music video for Bouts’ ‘Pliable Me’ features a series of Irish couples engaging in intimate sexual experiences. It’s very NOT SAFE FOR WORK but also, very sweet and very modern. Like Cindy Gallup’s Make Love Not Porn campaign, this isn’t on-screen sex for pornographic reasons but more a realistic depiction of what goes on behind closed doors. Of course, this being Ireland, you’ll probably still be apprehensive to click play in case you might see your neighbour naked but that’s a risk you’ll just have to face.
Bouts‘ debut album Nothing Good Gets Away premiered here last month.
Niall Byrne is the founder of the most-influential Irish music site Nialler9, where he has been writing about music since 2005. He is the co-host of the Nialler9 Podcast and has written for the Irish Times, Irish Independent, Sunday Times, Totally Dublin, Cara Magazine, Red Bull and more. Niall is a DJ, co-founder of Lumo Club, event curator, Indie Sleaze club promoter, and producer of gigs and monthly listening parties & events in Dublin.
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