Maybe at some point they will reinvent themselves as serious artists too, but I won’t hold my breath on that one. The usual Spears/Aguilera trajectory that must be adhered to appears to be sweet, alluring, innocent-yet-sexually available schoolgirl -> promiscuous, provocative, even-more-sexually-available-slut.
#ROBIN THICKE BLURRED LINES UNRATED VIDEO LYRICS CODE#
Even those with already impressive sales figures inevitably reach the point where they claim to have “matured”, which is basically code for dressing like a prostitute, whilst regurgitating their label boss’ instructed mantra of how dressing and cavorting in this way makes them feel “strong and empowered”. With a tiny number of exceptions, success for female singers now seems to be dependent on how much flesh they are willing to display. It has always been thus, but over the last ten years or so, pop music does seem to have regressed at a phenomenal rate regarding its treatment of women. Is it just the straw that finally broke the camel’s back?įew would argue against the record industry being labelled misogynistic. So why has Thicke, and his song in particular, been singled out for such criticism? It can’t just be the fact that one look at Thicke tells you he is an unbearably smug, smarmy twat. Frankly, both song and video are pretty tame by the standards of what you can see on MTV at any given moment. So yes, it is, without doubt, misogynistic, but even the unrated version of the video is no worse than we have all seen a thousand times before. He did a few good songs with N*E*R*D about a decade ago, and since then has been responsible for so many crimes against music he should be tried in some pop music equivalent of the Haig, Blurred Lines being just the latest such abomination) the second video being exactly the same, except that the women this time are actually topless. Turns out there are two versions, the first containing the usual parade of scantily clad woman gyrating against any person or object in the vicinity, including Thicke himself, and the omnipresent king of glossy, over-produced, mass –selling shite Pharrel Williams (and can we please not have any protestations about what a genius producer he supposedly is. And it wasn’t until I read about his latest blacklisting that I bothered to Google the lyrics, which are indeed pretty offensive, with lines about having “something big enough to tear your ass in two” and a repeated “I know you want it” leading some to call it a “rape song”. Now, I have to admit that I had never even heard of Robin Thicke until the recent controversy surrounding his grotesque appearance with Miley Cyrus at the MTV awards. Given that this was a modern R’n’B song, a genre not exactly renowned for the inclusive, feminist nature of its songs and videos, it must have been something especially offensive.
No other song has prompted such an extreme reaction from student unions. This week, University College London’s student union became the latest to take the step of banning Robin Thicke’s ‘Blurred Lines’, due to the apparently offensive, misogynistic nature of its lyrics.
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