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To find the blurred lines song offensive

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Winter123 · 14/08/2013 23:37

Here's an extract of the lyrics if you are lucky enough to have not been subjected to them...

Baby, it's in your nature
Just let me liberate you
You don't need no papers
That man is not your maker
And that's why I'm gon' take a
Good girl
I know you want it
I know you want it
I know you want it
You're a good girl

I'll give you something big enough to tear your ass in two

Nothin' like your last guy, he too square for you
He don't smack that ass and pull your hair like that
So I'm just watching and waitin'
For you to salute the true big pimpin'

Do it like it hurt, like it hurt
What you don't like work

I know it's a bit old now... But it still makes me so Angry

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BeCool · 17/08/2013 22:08

Just watched the unrated video for the first time. FFS!

The tune and the melody is fantastic - it was always going to be a big summer hit whatever Thicke and Pharrel & co sang about. A big smash it. But the lyrics could have been different. They deliberately weren't.

They lyrics are deliberately provocative, nasty and blurred - that's what its all about. They pushed the lyrics right to the very edge and then mumbled the most offensive stuff. Many of those lyrics I couldn't really hear properly until after I had read them. But of course the lyrics are widely available if you can't hear them properly (maybe I've just gone to too many gigs over the year).

What pisses me off the most, is the artists, writers, producers, record co exes and especially self proclaimed "feminist" and savour of womankind, Thicke, decided to exploit women so woefully via the video to complete the package. How many times did they slap each other on the back for the fantastic job they did and what genius they are??

And because of the video, and the jerks playing on their phones over and over, this song and video is never going to go away. So day after day after day for a long long long time this message is being played over and over, while Thicke and co get richer and richer and richer.

It's sickening.

Mintyy · 17/08/2013 22:09

I am all ears Wasabe, because you seem to know what the song is actually about, whereas the rest of us bosom hoikers are just dried-up, washed-out old fuddy-duddies.

So how about you educate me?

CorrineFoxworth · 17/08/2013 22:11

I might write a light-hearted bouncy song about vagina dentata.

"I'll give you something sharp enough to bite your cock in two"

It won't be banned because it's just fiction whereas men's cocks can actually split anuses and that's allowed, so it'll be fine. Nobody will object, after all some men like that sort of thing and it empowers them.

SPBisResisting · 17/08/2013 22:11

I don't understand how he thinks he is a feminist. I read something about it on te other thred but have to admit I'd never heard of him before this song. Does he know what the word means?

BeCool · 17/08/2013 22:12

clearly he has no idea what it means.

BeCool · 17/08/2013 22:15

To quote Thicke

"I made a bad joke early on and sometimes a bad joke goes a long way," Thicke explained to Matt Lauer and Savannah Guthrie on the "Today" show stage. "The idea was when we made this song, we had nothing but the most respect for women. I mean, I've been with the same woman since I was a teenager. For us, we were just trying to make a funny song and sometimes the lyrics can get misconstrued when you're just trying to put people on the dance floor and have a good time. We had no idea that it would stir this much controversy. We only had the best intentions."

"I think that's what great art does -- it's supposed to stir conversation, it's supposed to make us talk about what's important and what the relationships between men and women are," Thicke added. "If you listen to the lyrics, it says, 'That man is not your maker.' It's actually a feminist movement within itself. It's saying that women and men are equals as animals and as power. It doesn't matter if you're a good girl or a bad girl, you can still have a good time."

from Huffington Post

zippey · 17/08/2013 22:15

Hmm is it ok to hate the lyrics but love the song? Rihanna also has some dodgy videos with lyrics, but her sings are still ok.

As an aside I didn't know what the lyrics were until I read this thread. I knew it was a bit tasteless, I know u want it etc. .. And just watched the uncensored video, yes it's totally sexist.

Still a decent tune though. Does Kenny Rodgers music also encourage gambling (the gambler), violence (coward of the county) and violence against women (ruby don't take your love to town)?

gordyslovesheep · 17/08/2013 22:16

Rihanna also has some dodgy videos with lyrics, but her sings are still ok I don't think anyone one this thread has said that have they?

BeCool · 17/08/2013 22:16

and the "good time" is having your arse ripped in two.

Thicke, you're a dick!

limitedperiodonly · 17/08/2013 22:17

light-hearted bouncy song about vagina dentata. Grin

They would be bleached dentata, wouldn't they? Because the idea of yellow ones would be disgusting.

mayihaveaboxofchoculaits · 17/08/2013 22:19

What does thicke care a
bout offending people? The song and the video are already being used to advertise something on tv . No idea what it is and i must have seen it 5 times already. He is making money so hes happy.

CorrineFoxworth · 17/08/2013 22:21

I am trying to figure out what, "when you want to suck chew it" meant in Frankie's Relax. Suggestive of violence but somehow not believable compared to today when anuses being split are the actual titles of films featuring women. We have gone back a long way, baby, as the saying goes.

limitedperiodonly · 17/08/2013 22:22

I think that's what great art does

See that's where Michelangelo went wrong. He didn't give David a big arse-splitting cock.

CorrineFoxworth · 17/08/2013 22:24

Lol limited, yes of course. The vagina dentata will have been laser-lightened and the flaps trimmed. There was a post on a thread I read earlier where a man was so surprised by the naturalness of his partner's genitals that he though she had had a sex change.

Snazzyenjoyingsummer · 17/08/2013 22:25

Is Robin Thicke trying to claim his track is 'great art' then in that HuffPost piece? Hmm

And as for 'It's actually a feminist movement within itself' Hmm Hmm Hmm

BeCool · 17/08/2013 22:25

limited
Grin

CorrineFoxworth · 17/08/2013 22:25

He didn't give David a big arse-splitting cock.

Grin Ha ha ha ha!

SPBisResisting · 17/08/2013 22:26

I suppose there's a chance that he is sacrificing his good name to thw fwminist cause and creating the ultimate parody of violent songs against women to gwt discussion of this issue out thwre in the real world. If ina uyears time there's greater condemnation of this sort of thing and he confirms all his profits from the song went to charities which oppose violence against women, I'll take my hat off to him

limitedperiodonly · 17/08/2013 22:26

I've often dreamed of a snappy comeback in bed corrine

Mintyy · 17/08/2013 22:30

The striking thing about this particular song is that it is so mainstream (and therefore has been on stations as middle of the road as R2 several times a day) with the vast majority of people not hearing or listening to the lyrics. I started a thread about it more than two months ago - I wasn't a fan of the music, but I wasn't aware of the lyrics then. Apparently Ken Bruce made disgruntled comments about having to play it.

And now I hear Thicke is involved in a pre-emptive injunction against the Estate of Marvin Gaye, just incase anyone accuses him of infringing the copyright of Got To Give It Up.

Hopefully it will be the undoing of this wanker.

Mintyy · 17/08/2013 22:32

Who is using it for advertising?

Would be happy to boycott.

BeCool · 17/08/2013 22:33

so Thicke says above the song is:
a bad joke (not funny)
funny (not funny)
misconstrued (really Hmm)
made with the best intentions (to make shitloads of money)
inspiring conversations between men and women (again, really Hmm)
says women and men are equals as animals (not as people?)

And then at the end of all of that, he calls it actually a feminist movement which just goes to show he knows absolutely nothing at all about feminism (as if we didn't know that already).

With feminism and rape being so much in the media this year, he thought he'd throw that into the mix to create even more of a stir about his "funny" song.

He's an evil genius.

BeCool · 17/08/2013 22:34

SPB I bet you don't even wear a hat Grin

CorrineFoxworth · 17/08/2013 22:35

"If in a years time there's greater condemnation of this sort of thing and he confirms all his profits from the song went to charities which oppose violence against women, I'll take my hat off to him"

What rhymes with "hug me"?

Chug me. He could sign up a direct debit to Women's Aid.

BeCool · 17/08/2013 22:36

Beats by Dre advert uses - new portable speakers "The Pill"

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