Is Censorship in television becoming less stringent?

By Trey Mangum on May 20, 2013

If last night’s performance by Nicki Minaj and Lil Wayne on the 2013 Billboard Music Awards is anything to go by, it seems as if the entertainment industry is now becoming less harsh on their guidelines. The Billboard Awards, which are based on chart performance as opposed to votes, aired on ABC and also featured performances from Miguel, Jennifer Lopez, Christina Aguilera, Selena Gomez and more.

The awards ceremony typically airs on network television stations. FOX was the home of the presentation a few years ago.

Minaj and Wayne performed the song “High School,” the second single taken from Minaj’s latest album, Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded – The Re-Up which was released last April.

The performance saw Minaj twerk onstage and give Lil Wayne a lap dance. I legitimately had to check the time on my iPhone to see if it was before 11:59pm, and then made sure that the channel was ABC as opposed to a cable network.

I’m pretty sure approximately 100 conservative groups and numerous middle-American moms have mailed in complaints of Minaj’s dancing of which Wayne said made him “the luckiest guy in the world.”

So what’s the matter? Is television getting progressively more ratchet? But with all things considered, should we really be concerned with Minaj twerking on ABC primetime, or scenes like the one below that air on VH1 weekly?

You be the judge.

Photo via New York Daily News / Getty Images / Ethan Miller

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