{"id":41731,"date":"2025-07-23T15:33:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T15:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/23\/is-jessie-murphs-1965-video-art-or-smut\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T15:33:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T15:33:16","slug":"is-jessie-murphs-1965-video-art-or-smut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/23\/is-jessie-murphs-1965-video-art-or-smut\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Jessie Murph&#8217;s &#8216;1965&#8217; Video Art, or Smut?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tasteofcountry.com\/tags\/jessie-murph\/\">Jessie Murph<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;1965&#8221; music video is pornographic, and that&#8217;s not judgement or hyperbole.<\/p>\n<p>Midway through the tongue-in-cheek retrospective, one finds a man and woman\u00a0having sex on the edge of a bed.<\/p>\n<p>It lasts just long enough for you to think, &#8220;Oh my gosh, how has this passed YouTube&#8217;s censors?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But aside from that &#8230; actually, there is one other shocking scene, and 11 F-bombs across the three-and-a-half-minute song.<\/p>\n<p>But aside from that &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=C_76y6GG4tA\" target=\"_blank\">Jessie Murph&#8217;s &#8220;1965&#8221; music video<\/a>\u00a0is age-restricted and cannot be embedded on external websites.<\/li>\n<li>Find the song on her newest album, <em>Sex Hysteria<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Blue Strips&#8221; is the most streamed song (106M) from that album on Spotify.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><strong>Related<\/strong><\/em><strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/tasteofcountry.com\/jessie-murph-songs\/\">10 Jessie Murph Songs\u00a0to Start With If You&#8217;re a New Fan<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Jessie Murph, &#8220;1965&#8221; Video Controversy:<\/h3>\n<p>The lyrics to Murph&#8217;s &#8220;1965&#8221; compare life as a married woman 60 years ago to the highs and lows of being in love today. It&#8217;s dramatic and bold and ultimately concludes that things have changed, but have not necessarily gotten better.<\/p>\n<p>Society has simply traded one form of oppressing women for another.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I might get a little slap-slap, but you wouldn&#8217;t hit me on Snapchat,&#8221;<\/em> Murph sings during\u00a0a particularly representative lyric from the\u00a0first verse.<\/p>\n<p>Many viewers are upset by the sex scene, with some taking particular offense to a little girl appearing in a scene just before.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a sample of what people are saying on YouTube:<\/p>\n<div class=\"single-post-image \">\n<figure class=\"img-tag has-sizer aligncenter\" style=\"max-width:1600px\">\n<p><span class=\"visually-hidden\">Jessie Murph 1965 Reaction<\/span><\/p><figcaption>YouTube.com\/JessieMurph<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Other shocking scenes include a woman hiding between the legs of a man under the dinner table and Murph\u00a0putting a gun in the mouth of her 1960s male antagonist.<\/p>\n<p>She appears in lingerie throughout and people are smoking a ton of cigarettes, but nobody&#8217;s complaining about that.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re\u00a0here because of two to three seconds of X-rated cinema.<\/p>\n<p>A critical take on this video is coming, but first, there are some things you should know about Jessie Murph.<\/p>\n<h3>Who Is Jessie Murph?<\/h3>\n<p>Jessie Murph is a 20-year-old Alabama native who first became popular in 2021 when a song called &#8220;Always Been You&#8221; drew fan attention.<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s enjoyed considerable social media success, and in recent years she&#8217;s teamed with\u00a0artists like\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/tasteofcountry.com\/tags\/koe-wetzel\/\">Koe Wetzel<\/a> (&#8220;High Road&#8221; hit No. 1 at country radio) and <a href=\"https:\/\/tasteofcountry.com\/tags\/jelly-roll\/\">Jelly Roll<\/a> (&#8220;Wild Ones&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>She is an unapologetically provocative singer and songwriter\u00a0whose success in any single genre seems more a coincidence than marketing plan.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s not to say her success is undeserved \u2014 she just crosses genres with the ease of someone who doesn&#8217;t really believe in genres.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes she&#8217;s pretty country. Sometimes, she&#8217;s not.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Yeah, you got me throwing blue strips \/\u00a0Bare\u00a0t&#8211;s in the strip club \/\u00a0Throwing ones at your\u00a0bi&#8211;h \/\u00a0And I know you know what&#8217;s going on \/\u00a0I&#8217;m going home, l&#8217;ma take it off for him \/\u00a0I&#8217;ma strip down all your wrongs, yeah,&#8221;<\/em> she sings during the pre-chorus of &#8220;Blue Strips.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Is Jessie Murph&#8217;s &#8220;1965&#8221; Video Art or Smut?<\/h3>\n<p>If you think\u00a0Murph&#8217;s\u00a0video is pornography, ask yourself this question:\u00a0How would you feel had you seen this piece of content on Netflix?<\/p>\n<p>What if this was a three-and-a-half-minute scene from an art house film?<\/p>\n<p>That kind of context normalizes the more provocative scenes to the point that you have to ask if the issue is the music video, or the channel.<\/p>\n<p>The art, wardrobe, message and direction of &#8220;1965&#8221; is actually quite stunning, and it all works together to make Murph&#8217;s point about\u00a0misogyny\u00a0in 2025 clear.<\/p>\n<p>The extent to which Murph is seeking attention by creating and releasing this video will forever be argued, but she deserves recognition for challenging convention. The video for &#8220;1965&#8221; is a creative risk unlike any in recent country music history. It will change the course of her career for the better if people &#8220;get&#8221; it.<\/p>\n<p>Or for\u00a0worse if broader audiences decide it&#8217;s just filth.<\/p>\n<div class=\"photogallery-wrapper blog-photogallery \">\n<h2 class=\"photogallery-title\">10 Jessie Murph Songs to Start With If You&#8217;re a Brand New Fan<\/h2>\n<p class=\"photogallery-credit\">Gallery Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/tasteofcountry.com\/author\/cliptak\" target=\"_blank\">Carena Liptak<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"photogallery-wrapper blog-photogallery \">\n<h2 class=\"photogallery-title\">The Top 10 Country Songs of 2025, Ranked (So Far)<\/h2>\n<div class=\"photogallery-description\">\n<p>The Top 10 country songs of 2025 represent a big shift in how we discover great music and who&#8217;s recording it. Just one primary artist on this list of the year&#8217;s best songs has won a Male or Female Vocalist of the Year award.<\/p>\n<p>Newcomers are making the best songs, and they&#8217;re being rewarded with huge streaming numbers. Scroll down to see if your favorite song is among the Top 10 Country Songs of 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Airplay charts, sales data and streaming numbers helped make this list of country music&#8217;s Top 10 songs of 2025, but staff and Taste of Country reader opinion were also influential.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"photogallery-credit\">Gallery Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/tasteofcountry.com\/author\/billydukes\/\" target=\"_blank\">Billy Dukes<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/tasteofcountry.com\/rest\/carbon\/api\/scripts.js?mver=69&#038;gver=6&#038;bid=204&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Fbtloader.com%2Ftag%3Fo%3D5642230212591616%26upapi%3Dtrue&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.p-n.io%2Fpushly-sdk.min.js%3Fdomain_key%3DGbJ4PR9JZzdxdLXzJnfIG9ZgkXSFQNevIcIY&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Ftownsquare.media%2Fpublic%2Fresources%2Fjs%2Fpubcid.min.js&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Fplatform.twitter.com%2Fwidgets.js&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Fapis.google.com%2Fjs%2Fplatform.js&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Fconnect.facebook.net%2Fen_US%2Fsdk.js&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.pinterest.com%2Fjs%2Fpinit.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\" async defer data-osano=\"ESSENTIAL\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/tasteofcountry.com\/jessie-murph-1965-video\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jessie Murph&#8216;s &#8220;1965&#8221; music video is pornographic, and that&#8217;s not judgement or hyperbole. 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