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Honestly.”īoth Johnston and Kinney are less ruffled by the song’s content and video in part because of the origin. “I feel more like, more violated by people trying to tell me that that song and video is problematic than I do by that song and video. And when they’re not clothed, he’s like acknowledging the line and he’s stepping right over it.”Īnd Kelley bristled at the notion that women were supposed to be offended by the video. When they’re clothed it feels like he’s walking up to a line and agreeing to obey it. Though there are two versions, Kelley prefers the NSFW version for the very reasons that other women were uncomfortable: “We feel a certain type of way about seeing men completely clothed next to almost completely naked women and that’s what gives it the frisson. Kelley also shrugged off the controversy: “I think it’s really fun,” she said. “Lyrically, it’s problematic, but I feel like so many pop songs right now are problematic,” said Johnston of the song itself. And Thicke’s video would barely register on the outrage meter when compared to most garden-variety hip-hop videos featuring bling and babes. Certainly, the video is less offensive than another recently banned-from-YouTube video, “ Pussy” by the Dream, which is not about little kittens, and features closeups of a woman’s nether regions being covered in oil. Perhaps, like music critic Maura Johnston, the editor and founder of Maura Magazine, and Frannie Kelley, an editor at NPR Music, they don’t think it’s that big of a deal. Oddly, though, top feminist sites like Jezebel, The Hairpin, and XO Jane haven’t yet weighed in. Whereas the women have no status and are totally open to be exploited ogled and used,” she said. The men have all the control and status because they are not vulnerable-they are completely covered. “The women are clearly being used as objects to reinforce the status of the men in the video.

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In a YouTube video titled “Robin Thicke is a dick,” she explained why the women showing so much skin got under her skin.

Call me a cynic, but that phrase does not exactly encompass the notion of consent in sexual activity … Seriously, this song is disgusting-though admittedly very catchy.”Ĭanadian model Amy Davison also took issue with the clip. “Basically, the majority of the song (creepily named ‘Blurred Lines’) has the R&B singer murmuring ‘I know you want it’ over and over into a girl’s ear. “ Has anyone heard Robin Thicke’s new rape song?” Lisa Huyne wrote in a post on her blog, Feminist in L.A.

Not surprisingly the combination of the lyrics and the video’s nudity has irked some female music fans.

“Talk about getting blasted, I hate these blurred lines, I know you want it, but you’re a good girl, the way you grab me, must want to get nasty.” “Good girl, I know you want it,” sings Thicke, who has all of his clothes on, as one of the near-naked models dances and pouts next to him. The song is about how a girl really wants crazy wild sex but doesn’t say it-positing that age-old problem where men think no means yes into a catchy, hummable song. The nudity might be fine if the song was called, “Let’s All Have Some Fun,” but it’s called “Blurred Lines,” and the subject itself is enough to make some female music fans uncomfortable.

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