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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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theodorakisses · 15/08/2013 19:56

Eh?

Wonderstuff · 15/08/2013 19:57

How very mysterious..

Alisvolatpropiis · 15/08/2013 19:58

Erm?

Tattva · 15/08/2013 20:01

ooh, what??

theodorakisses · 15/08/2013 20:03

What i mean is that sex is cheap that's all.

AnyFucker · 15/08/2013 20:05

For some people, sex is cheap

theodorakisses · 15/08/2013 20:07

Yes but they're the only people who buy it

AnyFucker · 15/08/2013 20:09

TK, you are making no sense, dude

motownmover · 15/08/2013 20:11

Too depressing.

I wonder how much the women got paid??

Just awful, I just wonder how this crap sells.

I think Robin Thicke (oh how he deserves his last name) was singing it on Ellen.

motownmover · 15/08/2013 20:13

parody

Wonderstuff · 15/08/2013 20:25

I just think, the constant objectification of women is damaging. It encourages people to see women as sexual objects, at best this leads to an attitude amongst both sexes that sex is not an equal, mutually fulfilling, enjoyable act, but a power struggle where women allow men to enjoy them. At worst it leads men to view women as there for their enjoyment, not equals in any sense but objects to be conquered, exploited. It isn't just a music video, page three isn't just a bit of fun, all these things add to a certain view of women that too many men hold.

SirChenjin · 15/08/2013 21:10

Agree Wonderstuff

Having never read the lyrics before this thread I've been guilty of bopping about to what, on the face of it, appeared to be a very innocent, catchy little pop tune (albeit with a very old fashioned video). I wonder how many others have done the same? Ellen DG seems like an intelligent woman - do you think she realised what she was promoting, or does she just do as she's told like the countless other DJs, interviewers, producers etc?

Alisvolatpropiis · 15/08/2013 21:14

The dark haired girl in the video is a model, with Ford. There was an interview with in her in some crap magazine I read this week. Had her Instagram name in the article, she is more than happy to be...unrobed.

I presume the other two girls are models also. Wearing little clothing is rife in the modelling industry as well as in the music industry.

Not saying it's right but women do make careers out of wearing very little.

Remotecontrolduck · 15/08/2013 21:15

I don't like it, the lyrics ARE nasty no matter what way you look at it. There is just no need for it, it's a constant declining of standards. 10 years ago even there wasn't half as much of this really quite violent pornographic/rapey imagery in mainstream music. Where will it end? I'm no prude but I just think it's so unnecessary.

The girls in the video could do so much better than being degraded like that, even if it was their choice and they got paid etc etc

SirChenjin · 15/08/2013 21:19

But that's just it - it has become so normalised over the last 10-15 years that these young women who have grown up in an over sexualised society now genuinely believe this is a valid career choice as they don't remember a time when sexual imagery wasn't absolutely everywhere. It's very, very sad.

Alisvolatpropiis · 15/08/2013 21:23

I don't disagree SirChenjin.

It isn't just sexualised imagery though it's the idea of there genuinely being a single perfect physical specimen which we must all adhere to. There have always been beautiful people, always, but now - it is the be all and end all. Above and beyond actual talent.

OnTheNingNangNong · 15/08/2013 21:24

Its this lyric: Baby can you breathe? I got this from Jamaica It always works for me, Dakota to Decatur, uh huh No more pretending
that when I heard it, I immediately thought that it sounded like a date rape insinuation.

motownmover · 15/08/2013 21:25

I was trying to work it out - I mean I grew up with MTV and now it seems such crap.

Madonna and even Banarama seemed in control.

Very puzzling.

I remember when Like A Prayer was a controversy.

I don't get it now at all.

SirChenjin · 15/08/2013 21:27

You are right, Alisvolatpropiis, absolutely. There is an unbelievable amount of pressure to look a certain way, with a huge emphasis on 'grooming' and fakery. Education, intelligence and talent does not seem to be valued.

Alisvolatpropiis · 15/08/2013 21:27

Onthe

I think that's referencing strong cannabis not date rape.

On the whole the lyrics are unpleasant.

SirChenjin · 15/08/2013 21:29

Baby can you breathe? I got this from Jamaica It always works for me, Dakota to Decatur, uh huh No more pretending

See, that makes no sense to me at all (I am far too old and clueless) - what does it mean?

OnTheNingNangNong · 15/08/2013 21:31

True Alis It's not a song I will go listening to nor will my DC. I've had enough of the sexualisation and objectification of women.

SolidGoldBrass · 15/08/2013 21:31

I don't like it either. When it comes on I say to DS that Robin Thicke is a nasty, greasy little man and all the girls in the video think he's horrible and are only dancing with him because they are getting lots of monehy, because he's a silly man who doesn't like women.

poorbuthappy · 15/08/2013 21:37

I was sat outside a local establishment when 1 of the dads got the uncensored video up on his phone and took great delight in showing everyone else.

I sat there for about oooo 2 nano seconds before I let rip into this song, the video and the rant ended with saying something like... listen to the rap, that's Pharrel Williams saying that he's gonna fuck a woman sooo hard he rips her anus apart...that could be your daughter in 8 years...this man did the soundtrack for Despicable Me 1 and 2.

They had no idea.

feelingvunerable · 15/08/2013 21:42

I thought it was a totally crap song. Now I know it is.