<p>The song isn’t leading someone to rape. Rather, it’s validating rape culture and misogyny. Which shows that we really haven’t come very far in terms of education. And when a celebrity, even one as minor as Alan Thicke praises his son, what does that say about our society?</p>
<p>What if this was a song about racism? Would it be celebrated then?</p>
<p>Thought you’d find this interesting:</p>
<p>Robin Thicke has fired a preemptory lawsuit against two of Marvin Gaye’s relatives and Bridgeport Music, hoping to stamp out a small brushfire of criticism that “Blurred Lines” is basically just a mash-up of Gaye’s “Got to Give It Up” and Funkadelic’s “Sexy Ways” (Bridgeport owns some of the band’s music). Which is so completely not the case! Thicke insists that “Blurred Lines” was just inspired by far more funktastic tunes, and “inspired by” is not the same thing as “ripped off from.” The self-avowed proto-feminist singer isn’t seeking money, but he does want an official declaration stating that “Blurred Lines” is a stand-alone classic because only that will help assuage his hurt feelings.</p>
<p>Does anyone really think this is the first time that date rape language was present in a popular song? If they do, then they have lived really sheltered lives.</p>
<p>One, two, or ten millions times, it is still classless.</p>
<p>Agree–classless and unnecessary. And yet people get rich off this kind of banal music. It’s pretty sad.</p>
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Here’s the thing, they didn’t say that they didn’t want it, though.</p>
<p>In reality, or in your interpretation “the delusion of the creeper”, the girls were going to him. They weren’t going about their “daily lives”. They were crawling into his arms and shaking their butt.</p>
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I’m trying to think of a way this song can be put into terms like that…but I’m not getting anything.</p>
<p>Niquii, you really are a creep if you believe that. The absence of “yes!” means “NO.” Why is this so hard for you to understand?</p>
<p>I just don’t see the justification of calling a guy a “creep” when the girl is going to him and grabbing on him. So a girl can dance all up on the guy, grab him, grind on him, etc and when the guy thinks, “Oh, she wants this.” He’s automatically a creep?</p>
<p>I’ll give you something big enough to tear your ass in two >>>>></p>
<p>Isn’t that just digusting? Good lord.</p>
<p>Niquii, there should be no ambiguity AT ALL. The guy can ASK the girl what she wants rather than assume the answer. For some men, it may be confusing to have a woman dressed in fitted clothing, wearing makeup, or gazing at him across the table in a “certain way.” It’s not difficult to clear up the confusion by MAKING ABSOLUTELY SURE what the woman “wants.”</p>
<p>I am beginning to understand why some cultures require women to wear burqas. Apparently it is just too much effort for certain men to control their impulses or use their big-boy voices to ask for a woman’s consent.</p>
<p>crap song, no talent, no band…“today’s music ain’t got the same soul”
…at least I taught my kids what good music is…no rap crap in my house.</p>
<p>No band = no music</p>
<p>@sally
No, it is not difficult for a guy to speak up and ask the girl. It gets rid of any confusion. </p>
<p>But…
I do not understand this. </p>
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Here my confusion continues. This song is not about a guy grabbing a girl and taking her to his hotel room. It is not about a guy who had sex with a girl without her consent. So I’m uncertain how people conclude these guys have “control” issues when throughout the entire song it’s up to the girl to do something with the guy.</p>
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<p>My objection is precisely to the women in the video. They act like plastic party dolls come to life: all they do is prance about naked and make eyes at the men and the camera. Of course an animated sex toy would “want it”; that’s the purpose of a party doll, that’s why the man bought one. But presenting actual women as party dolls is pretty disgusting. Is that how the men in the video view women: as party dolls, with no purpose in life but to satisfy the sexual urges of men? Apparently.</p>
<p>Somewhere, some football player or frat boy has just finished his fifteenth beer, and is raping an unconscious women. “I know you want it.” Yuck. Why is anyone offering aid and comfort to rapists?</p>
<p>Oh goodness! The vast majority of rap and hip-hop songs and videos are TWENTY times worse than this – with constant foul language throughout, the “n” word, calling women hoes, exalting use of drugs and alcohol, exalting a very disposable and contemptible view of women … Why the outrage over this one? Because a pretty white boy sings it? Come on now.</p>
<p>PG, just because there are worse songs doesn’t make this one any more palatable. Every time I hear it with my 16-year-old daughter in the car I cringe. </p>
<p>For whatever reason, the OP decided to start a thread about this song. And clearly, the reaction is proof that it rubs some people the wrong way.</p>
<p>Perhaps, this large uproar is due to the mass amount of listeners. Great amounts of people are listening to this song. It’s on pop radio and hip hop/r&b radio. It’s playing in your shopping centers, stores, etc. Kids are listening to this song. Parents are listening to this song. At one point, and it still might be, this song took over the radio. Thicke, Pharell, and T.I. have a crap load of fans. The coverage of this song is great. Compare this to a 2 Chainz song and while the amount of listeners may stay the same the demographic narrows. Less variety. </p>
<p>People have the chance to complain about only because they’ve heard it.</p>
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<p>And the mass amount of listeners is due to the naked chicks on the video.</p>
<p>Not entirely, geo. But I must say, these “complaints” are making the video more famous. I don’t consider that a bad thing, though. :)</p>
<p>Niquii, did you notice that this thread is in the “Parent Cafe” and directed at “Fellow Boomers”? As far as I can tell you are still a student in high school. And possibly a girl, which is mystifying. Please, let the grownups discuss this. There is plenty for you to talk about in the “College Class of 2017” section of CC.</p>
<p>The problem is: the lyrics are bad, the video is even worse, and the song is so peppy and popular that it’s message will easily and insidiously sneak into your brain and sit there all day, repeating itself over and over (with subliminal flashes from the video), until you’ve absorbed at least some of it. And probably most of it.</p>
<p>I’ve found it’s an “earworm” for me and I don’t like it at all!</p>