Headlights music video banned by TVNZ

The music video for our song Headlights has been banned by TVNZ. The video was produced by the award winning local production house The Downlow Concept, and features a cast of four year old kids simulating an adult night out on the town. The kids are shown to be drinking milk, and dancing at both a house party and a nightclub where the intention was to demonstrate the child-like greed with which adults conduct themselves whilst on the road to excess. The TVNZ censor is reported to have said that it was inappropriate to show children drinking from a funnel and from shots, and that the general behavior of the children was unacceptable.

This is the first New Zealand made music video to be banned by TVNZ since the Skeptics 1988 clip ‘A.F.F.C.O’ which filmed the journey of sheep through an abattoir in graphic detail. It is interesting to note that TVNZ finds images of children drinking milk as offensive as watching sheep get their throats slit.

Headlights is the second single to be released from The Hot Grits' debut album ‘It’s too Drunk to be this Early’.

Other media outlets have not followed TVNZ's lead - since its release the video has received airplay on both C4 and Juice music television channels.