<p>This is an alternate perspective:
[‘Blurred</a> Lines’ Director Meant the Video to Be ‘Subtly Ridiculing’](<a href=“http://jezebel.com/blurred-lines-director-meant-the-video-to-be-subtly-589343435]'Blurred”>'Blurred Lines' Director Meant the Video to Be 'Subtly Ridiculing')</p>
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<p>I can see it after reading it, but I wonder what most of the people who watched it originally thought.</p>
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<p>Right. Because he just can’t help himself. It’s her fault, of course.</p>
<p>I know, I should just “lighten up.”</p>
<p>If we are talking about that excerpt from the song, the girl would be going to him so really…she wouldn’t be able to help herself.</p>
<p>I don’t know, “I know you want it” just sounds rape-y to me in any context.</p>
<p>I also live under a rock because I have not heard this song.</p>
<p>IMO this is one of the more disturbing/disgusting lines:</p>
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<p>So really, since animals can’t give consent, he needn’t worry too much about that.</p>
<p>I’ve never heard this song. It is very rapey and creepy to me. In general, I refuse to listen to music like that.</p>
<p>There’s nothing in the video that depicts or suggests that the guys are forcing themselves on the girls - unlike a million rap videos out there. The men are admiring their beautiful bodies, of course, but they are all playing around / flirting with one another and no one is “controlling” anyone else. </p>
<p>Sorry, there is SO much worse in most of the horrible, atrocious rap music on the radio and in videos – getting outraged over this seems misguided to me. And I have to say, I like when RT says - *You want to hug me. What rhymes with hug me? * with a little laugh in his voice. This reads to me as high-level flirtatious, not disgusting objectification like most rap music / videos out there.</p>
<p>missypie - maybe this article will confirm the answer regarding what artist this song reminds you of:</p>
<p>[Thicke</a>, collaborators sue to protect ‘Blurred Lines’ from Gaye family - MSN Music News](<a href=“http://music.msn.com/music/article.aspx?news=823366]Thicke”>http://music.msn.com/music/article.aspx?news=823366)</p>
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<p>There were words???</p>
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Ding, ding, ding, ding—we have a winner, :D</p>
<p>Wow, I lost this thread for a while. I agree that the lyrics and video are disturbing. But thank you teriwitt and others for answering the “what other songs does this song sound like?” question.</p>
<p>It’s a very catchy song. I think most kids take it at that level. I remember one summer getting the original Jesus Christ Superstar album and memorizing every note…my mother was highly disturbed that I was singing along to lyrics that were not exactly worshipful of Jesus…“Mom, it’s just a song.”</p>
<p>missypie–re: “Mom, it’s just a song!”</p>
<p>Rolling Stones’ “Let Spend the Night Together,” “Under My Thumb,” “Look at that Stupid Girl” and CSN&Y “Love the One Your With”</p>
<p>And, any and all attempts at “Louie, Louie.”</p>
<p>Here’s my problem with the video, and the song:</p>
<p>“I know you want it” is the cry of the harasser. The song (which is catchy and fun-sounding) and the video seem to me to be the vision in the disordered mind of the creeper. In his mind, women and girls really want sex even when they say they don’t. In his mind, women and girls are dressing and acting to attract him. In reality, women and girls are just going about their normal lives, going to the grocery store, making copies at the copy machine, walking home from work, going to a party with their friends, and it’s not so much that there are “blurred lines” but that the creeper has stepped so far over the bright line he’s not even in the same zip code as the line.</p>
<p>Maybe “I know you want it” is what cute blue-eyed Robin Thicke thinks. But it’s also what revolting San Diego mayor Bob Filner thinks. The way to know she wants it is when she says she wants it.</p>
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<p>True that.</p>
<p>I liked the song, until I actually could decipher the lyrics. Ugh. Rapey for sure.</p>
<p>I love the Melinda Hughes version. And Robin Thicke is a ****** and so is his dad for announcing how proud he is of junior. I wouldn’t be proud of my son if he recorded such a song.</p>
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<p>Quote of the day.</p>
<p>I am sure I am not the only one here who experienced a date-rape situation in college. Men prey on what they perceive as ambiguity and fill in the gaps with their own “superior” knowledge of what women want. It is really sad that we have not evolved beyond this sad state of relations between (some) men and women.</p>
<p>Yes, but the question is whether songs (or movies, tv shows or video games) actually influence behavior. I remember singing along to “driving that train, high on cocaine” at age 15. It didn’t tempt me to do drugs.</p>
<p>Would you acquit a rapist whose criminal defense was based on listening to “Blurred Lines”?</p>
<p>The problem is that the song portrays the disordered view of the “I know you want it” guy as reality. It says that loathesome Bob Filner is right when he thinks that some great-grandmother wants to be creeped on by him, because he knows she wants it.</p>
<p>Why are we validating the delusions of creepers? It’s not like creepers and rapists are rare.</p>
<p>No of course I wouldn’t acquit a rapist whose defense was that he listened to Blurred Lines. But chances are, that rapist isn’t going to be charged, isn’t going to go to trial at all, because too many people believe she wanted it, and they won’t believe her when she says she didn’t.</p>
<p>And of course it is virtually impossible to isolate one reference point as the reason someone committed a crime. But it is possible to see how patterns–repeated in pop music and real-life behavior–can make what should be offensive seem “normal.”</p>