Active discussions

Meet the Other Phone. A phone that grows with your child.

Meet the Other Phone.
A phone that grows with your child.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Talk
AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

Original poster

Good for you Miley - payback time for Robin Thicke

41 replies

MCos · 02/09/2013 00:05

Have you seen the Robin Thicke video for Blurred Lines? All those girls being so submissive and all over him?? Yuch!!!!! Girl Power, NOT.

Good for you Miley Cyrus - you took control and whooped his ass. You were no 'good girl' - that's for sure. And after watching that original Robin Thicke video again - THAT's A GOOD THING!!!

AIBU??

OP posts:
LegoAcupuncture · 02/09/2013 00:06

Yes, YABU.

TylerHopkins · 02/09/2013 00:08

Is this the performance at the VMA's?

YouTheCat · 02/09/2013 00:08

It's all a load of pre-arranged, badly managed shite.

Good for none of them. They need to all bugger off and learn to play, write songs and sing without being auto-tuned to hell.

I know so many very talented young people doing small gigs, writing their own material and they are 100 times better than this crap.

dickiedavisthunderthighs · 02/09/2013 00:08

That was the absolute complete opposite of girl power. YABVU

Faezy · 02/09/2013 00:08

she did kinda humiliate him so in a way....

NotYoMomma · 02/09/2013 00:11

he makes me feel sick

she makes me feel sick. put your tongue away!

raisah · 02/09/2013 00:12

No she didn't humiliate him. She humiliated herself for dancing for her corporate masters, the ones actually in control of both of their careers.

hashtagwhatever · 02/09/2013 00:13

how? I think she made a knob of herself.

LittleBearPad · 02/09/2013 00:15

It's a foul song and her performance was horrible.

The only thing about it that made me smile was a mumsnetter saying he looked like a humbug

LittleBearPad · 02/09/2013 00:16

Also girl power??

The spice girls were a long time ago

LeoandBoosmum · 02/09/2013 00:17

One girl behaving in a slutty way as opposed to several... What did I miss exactly?
Miley was objectionable as is Thicke, the song and the girls in his video!

tethersend · 02/09/2013 00:19

Emmeline Pankhurst would have been very proud.

It's this sort of thing suffragettes went under racehorses for. Probably.

Original poster
MCos · 02/09/2013 00:19

TylerHopkins - yes, performance at VMAs.

I did think 'Oh God' when I watched it first.
But I'm just after watching the original Robin Thicke video on MTV.

And I thought - I prefer Miley giving him the finger than all those simpering women...

BTW - I'm not saying Miley's performance IS Girl Power - but that the simpering women in the video is so NOT Girl Power. And for that, I appreciate Miley giving the finger. (Even it not in the usual sense of the word!)

OP posts:
YouTheCat · 02/09/2013 00:20

But she isn't giving anyone the finger.

The only people getting the finger are the idiots that buy this shite.

Original poster
MCos · 02/09/2013 00:23

LittleBearPad - I'm old... But sentiment is still valid. What is a more up to date term?

OP posts:
noobieteacher · 02/09/2013 00:23

This sounds like wishful thinking.

There are a million and one better ways to make a feminist statement.

Original poster
MCos · 02/09/2013 00:24

YouTheCat - she most definitely gave Robin Thicke the finger! A very large foam finger...

OP posts:
YouTheCat · 02/09/2013 00:25

Yes but it was all orchestrated by their record label.

They're the one giving the finger.

noobieteacher · 02/09/2013 00:25

Hmm I would have to watch the video again to check. But I can't bear to.

LittleBearPad · 02/09/2013 00:26

I'm not sure there is one - how about feminism? At least that stands for something. Girl power was marketing crap.

Original poster
MCos · 02/09/2013 00:28

noobieteacher - I don't think it was a feminist statement. And not a real FU either.

But I appreciated how he was not so comfortable with an in-your-face female.

OP posts:
Montybojangles · 02/09/2013 00:29

I prefer the finger this lot give him in the you tube clicky link in this AIBU conversation.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/1836774-Pssssst-You-know-with-all-the-furore-over-the-Blurred-Lines-song

Miley is a sad, public train wreck happening in slo mo :(

YouTheCat · 02/09/2013 00:29

You do know this isn't real?

It's like wrestling. Hmm

thecatfromjapan · 02/09/2013 00:29

Someone once told me that the Baader Meinhoff had some theory about "KonsumerTerror", where consumers would rise up, as consumers, and violently react against the crap they were being sold. As consumers, the way proles would rise up as proles, etc.

I find that this Thicke stuff, the next installment of the PR "story" (the Cyrus) stuff, really gives me the rage, as a consumer.

And, reading mumsnet, I realise I am not alone.

Obviously, some people think: "Oooh ... cool." but a lot of us are just really fucking enraged by the cynical shit that is being pumped in our direction.

noobieteacher · 02/09/2013 00:32

Giving someone the proverbial finger because they are sexist IS a feminist statement, but that's not what she did. She waved her arse at him provocatively, that negates any upyourses from her to him many times over.

Swipe left for the next trending thread