Chris Isaak's Baby Did A Bad Bad Thing, the steamy video for the first single from the Eyes Wide Shut soundtrack, makes its debut tonight on MuchMoreMusic.
And while the controversy rages south of the border about the altering of the orgy scene from the film -- the L.A. Film Critics are the latest to object -- MuchMoreMusic has okayed the "hard uncensored version" of Isaak's racy, voyeuristically themed video. It'll air around 6:50 p.m.
"We think it's great for our MuchMoreMusic audience, which is basically an over-the-age-of-18 audience," Sarah Crawford, the music station's director of communications, said yesterday.
"We look at that video like we do all videos, contextually, and we thought it had some sexually suggestive kind of scenes clearly between consenting adults, nothing too graphic or sexually titillating, and we thought it was quite within the community standards of how we program MuchMoreMusic."
In the U.S., the censored version of Isaak's new video is playing on VH-1 before 9 p.m. while the "hard uncensored version" is playing after that hour.
Directed by photographer Herb Ritts, the video depicts Isaak in a seedy hotel room watching a television that shows a woman, presumably in the room next door, while she sexily gyrates around in a black bra and underwear. She's also shown with her legs up in the air, taking off her bra and panties -- in two different, quick scenes -- but there is no actual nudity.
Crawford hasn't seen the censored version yet -- the station is getting a copy next week -- but she understood the cuts are "scenes of the model, the one who's wearing the lingerie."
"It's quite common, you know, for our U.S. music stations to have problems with the scenes involving sexual depictions," she said. "It's kind of a community standards difference that we've noticed between Canada and the U.S. They tend to be a little more uptight about sexuality."
Isaak's song is originally from his 1995 album Forever Blue, but it gained notoriety when director Stanley Kubrick used it for the controversial trailer for Eyes Wide Shut. The trailer shows stars Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman naked and making out in front of a mirror.
