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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

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SirChenjin · 15/08/2013 18:15

Did you read the lyrics Curious? Does it not bother you that a song about splitting a woman's ass in two is played on mainstream radio? And that women are seen as sexual objects in the video? FFS, this is 2013, not 1975.

curiousgeorgie · 15/08/2013 18:20

Yeah, I know the lyrics. What do you want every song to be about? You have total control over your radio... You could just switch over.

It's a catchy song, I like singing along to it in the car. I don't think anything else really matters.

AnyFucker · 15/08/2013 18:22

gotta laugh at "he could be talking about his wife"

because ignoring the issue of consent and treating women like they are in a perpetual state of fuckability is just dandy when you are married to that particular piece of meat

< sigh >

curiousgeorgie · 15/08/2013 18:22

And I don't think the video is that bad either. Women are sexual objects in most music videos, would you change them all?

Tattva · 15/08/2013 18:23

It's not just worked up over a song though, is it?

It's the casual acceptance of vile lyrics like this and the imagery to go with it.

The "it's only a.." argument is usually wheeled out when people want to hear or watch what they want to, however revolting it maybe, without engaging conscience or principles.

Titsalinabumsquash · 15/08/2013 18:23

It's not about rape, it's about pushing sexual boundaries and taboos. Yes the video is grim but I don't find the song offensive.

The 'walks like Rihanna one is worse' IMO.

curiousgeorgie · 15/08/2013 18:26

Tattva - it might be that to you. But to me, who doesn't mind it at all, it's just worked up over a song.

Mintyy · 15/08/2013 18:27

Yanbu. I started a thread about it a couple of months ago.

And it makes my fucking blood boil that women will urge other women to just accept it, with a shrug and a "you could turn the radio off" or "its just a song" or "I didn't like the video but the tune is quite catchy.

Grim and depressing.

MrBlondesFries · 15/08/2013 18:29

The tune is brilliant, the lyrics are offensive and cringey, the video creeps me out. It's not so much the naked women, is the way the girls are all doe eyed and twirling their hair, whilst the blokes are all fully dressed and blowing smoke in their faces/pouring themselves a whiskey.

If the women were a bit more obviously sexy and less "innocent" sexy if you know what I mean, it would feel so bad, but the wy they act makes me feel like my skin is crawling.

MrBlondesFries · 15/08/2013 18:30

Should read "wouldn't feel so bad"

soverylucky · 15/08/2013 18:30

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guiltyconscience · 15/08/2013 18:31

I like the song but of course, now it's been pointed out to us, wish it had different lyrics but to be honest the diction of today's pop singer leaves a lot to be desired . I can't tell what the hell they say it's so incomprehensible but I like the chorus and it's very catchy! I do like that young man from the bbc news this morning though Naughty Boy he seemed like a very nice boy with a lovely song and story to it . I thought it was the wizard of oz but it seems it's a Bolivian folk tale anyhoe I do love it and after reading my post back to myself I realise I am turning into my mother god forbid!

Wasapea · 15/08/2013 18:34

The point most people seem to be missing is that you can abhor its lyrics, message and the misogyny in popular culture AS WELL AS thinking it's a good pop song. Which it is.

Spikeytree · 15/08/2013 18:35

This song was all you could hear in our school during the last week of term as the dance teacher was getting her Year 10s to do a routine to it.

soverylucky · 15/08/2013 18:37

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Wasapea · 15/08/2013 18:46

I don't disagree with you, soverylucky. I just think it's a bit mad to pick on Blurred Lines when we're faced with an entire culture which fundamentally reinforces the idea of women as sex objects. There are so many more damaging things to get furious about.

mombie · 15/08/2013 18:48

I thought I was the only one. I saw the video and found it so sleazy. Yes there are lots of horrible music videos objectifying women, but there is a disgusting creepy vibe to this one. I hate the way the guys keep yanking on that girl's hair as though its a leash. it's so nasty.

Spikeytree · 15/08/2013 18:49

They discussed this again on Women's Hour today on Radio 4. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03859ml it starts at about 8:40 in.

SirChenjin · 15/08/2013 18:49

No, I don't get the 'it's only a song' argument either. It shows a willingness to accept casual sexism and misogyny which demonstrates perfectly how overly sexualised society has become that people don't even challenge this anymore.

We moved on from Benny Hill, the Black and White Minstrels, etc because enough people stopped saying 'it's only a bit of fun' and started saying WTF - I really, really hope there will be a backlash to the pornification of everything very soon. Maybe enough of us are raising our children to question rather than accept, and that it will happen.

Buttercup4 · 15/08/2013 18:53

Agree with everything SirChenjin has said.

Wonderstuff · 15/08/2013 19:02

And I don't think the video is that bad either. Women are sexual objects in most music videos, would you change them all?
^^ this is so depressing. Yes, I would change them all. I won't watch any music channels at all because I get so wound up by it. I'm gutted that we are in 2013 and women are routinely represented as objects, gutted.

EarlyIntheMorning · 15/08/2013 19:03

Nothing wrong with this

theodorakisses · 15/08/2013 19:45

Holy crap we have just looked at the video on you tube,Mr Theo said he sees the video every day at the gym but clearly censored because it is MTV ME and had no idea. This will now be on the banned lit. Thank you for pointing it out.

theodorakisses · 15/08/2013 19:50

I live in the middle east and would have to namechange to say what we know

AnyFucker · 15/08/2013 19:54

eh ?

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