<p>I had not heard this song, it is quite catchy and cute if you are humming along and not understanding the lyrics. I watched both the clothed & nude videos and, yeah, I don’t think I am a total prude, but the dynamic of fully clothes men & virtually naked vapid girls was creepy.</p>
<p>Thicke is awfully pretty.</p>
<p>The DB parody is well done, I laughed.</p>
<p>I had never heard this song prior to this thread - looked it up on You Tube. I have to admit, I like the beat but am put off by the lyrics. What does amaze me is the mention by a previous poster that this was performed on the Today show. How can these lyrics be so mainstreamed?? - Just last week I saw Flo Rida performing Whistle on one of the morning shows. My 17 year old D walked into the room and commented “do those people know what they are singing?” as we saw older families and kids dancing and singing along, gazing up at him…It was a kind of sickening site. Did they really want him to show them how to “blow his whistle?” yuck…Similarly, I wonder if many people singing along to Blurred Lines really pay attention to the words that they are singing.</p>
<p>I had not heard this song until the other day when I was listening to talk radio and a lawsuit related to this song was being discussed. I am not sure if this has already been mentioned on this thread as I have not read all the posts. In case it has not been mentioned here is an article about the issue:</p>
<p>[The</a> Blurred Lines Of Copyright Law: Robin Thicke v. Marvin Gaye’s Estate - Forbes](<a href=“http://www.forbes.com/sites/oliverherzfeld/2013/08/20/the-blurred-lines-of-copyright-law-robin-thicke-v-marvin-gayes-estate/]The”>The Blurred Lines Of Copyright Law: Robin Thicke v. Marvin Gaye's Estate)</p>
<p>Marvin Gayes estate alleges that Blurred Lines is similar to Sexy Ways and Got to Give It Up.</p>
<p>I am neither a musician nor an expert on IP / copyright law, but as a lay person, they don’t seem any more the same to me than any two songs of a similar genre. I don’t think Marvin Gaye can trademark having a pulsing beat and a falsetto voice as being his alone.</p>
<p>Diana, they replace some of the words. I heard him do it on TV, and they said “you’re the hottest chick in this place,” for instance.</p>
<p>“I am neither a musician nor an expert on IP / copyright law, but as a lay person, they don’t seem any more the same to me than any two songs of a similar genre. I don’t think Marvin Gaye can trademark having a pulsing beat and a falsetto voice as being his alone.”</p>
<p>This was the exact argument that was being made by folks on the talk radio show. I wish I could remember the show - I was driving through NJ/NY in bad traffic!</p>
<p>I was not at all familiar with the song until I heard the discussion on the radio. Now I have heard about the song twice in the same week!</p>
<p>This morning a local early morning news show had a “back to school pep rally” featuring HS cheerleaders, dancers and band members. To what popular song did the show’s DJ have the cheerleaders dancing in a conga line? You guessed it.</p>
<p>Anyone surprised by this news?<br>
<a href=“http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/24/showbiz/robin-thicke-paula-patton-separate/”>Robin Thicke and Paula Patton 'mutually' decide to split - CNN;
You have to wonder if all the attention he got and scrutiny he was put under for this song had anything to do with it. His life was behind a magnifying glass (albeit, one in which he created).</p>
<p>Nope and my immediate reaction was: I hope she does infinitely better the next time around. </p>
<p>He honestly just gives me the creeps. Clearly I don’t know him and it could all be a show- but it’s a show I don’t like! </p>
<p>Wasn’t hard to see that one coming.</p>
<p>I would suggest learning about their marriage before putting the entire blame on a song…</p>
<p>^^^^Who put the entire blame on a song?</p>
<p>I’m not blaming the song - I think it’s sort of reflective of some of his beliefs, which have likely been acted out in many other ways which were very damaging. I’m sure other issues were going on long before he released this song, but it put his life under a microscope in ways that it had not been before. </p>
<p>No one here is putting all the blame on the song.
Hell, I for one put no blame on the song. </p>
<p>And unless you are one of their best friends and confidantes, you know NOTHING more about their marriage than any of the rest of us. Not really. You might know about what they say in the press but that’s meaningless. </p>
<p>Well, I know what his behavior in public has been and I doubt it has done anything to make his wife feel more confident about their marriage; but hey, if it has… if that’s what makes her boat float, then more power to her.</p>
<p>I think the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree and their last name rhymes with the descriptor I would use. </p>
<p>Can’t seem to get to the end of this thread on my phone to find the answer to this question. Why was this thread resurrected after 6 mos?</p>
<p>Mr. and Mrs. Thicke are splitting. </p>