Thursday 23 October 2014

Blurred lines music video, is it too sexist?

Blurred lines Music video: is it too sexist?

For this task we have been told to acquire five articles on the subject of how Blurred lines is too sexist and how people think of the song.

Article from the independent


Source: www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/pharrell-williams-says-blurred-lines-criticism-is-out-of-context-9738266.html 


The song ' Blurred lines, by Robin Thicke, Pharrell Williams and T.I is  apparently 'controversial' and was thought to be overblown. Though Singer Pharrell Williams thinks that all of this is 'out of context' and he quotes 'the last thing i wanna do is degrade'

Though singer Robin Thicke says that though this is his biggest hit, it is not even written or produced by him, like many of his previous songs.

Pharrell williams also speaks about how 'Anything can be taken out of context'

Article from the Guardian





Source: www.theguardian.com/music/2013/nov/13/blurred-lines-most-controversial-song-decade

 This Article shows how the song is described as 'rapey' and has even been branded by a blogger as a 'rape song' those opinions have gone all over the media.

Kirsty Haigh says that " it promotes a worrying attitude towards sex and consent." Families are also complaining about how the rude and explicit dance scenes and lyrics from the music video have been causing children to copy and mimic the Music video. The video overall has been shown as a bad influence.




Article from The rolling stones 

Source: www.rollingstone.com/music/news/blurred-lines-the-worst-song-of-this-year-or-any-other-year-20131206


 The famous song 'blurred lines' by Robin Thicke, has been called 'the worst song in this year or any other year' by Rolling stones and it has been said that 'everything next year will suck a little more' The article goes on to speak about how the song sucks more than Cat Stevens 'wild world'

The creator of the article goes on to give the song 'Blurred lines' personification, saying how they want to 'punch the song in the nose' and 'make the song cry.


Article from NME

Source: www.nme.com/news/robin-thicke-0/72627

 Robin Thicke's track "blurred lines" was banned from university student buildings at the university of Edinburgh because it promotes 'unhealthy attitude towards sex and consent'

The song by Robin Thicke was apparently singing about his wife of twenty years. quoting that 'he knows she'd want it, since they've been together for 20 years" though, since its kids and easily influenced children watching the music video, they arent thinking of its meanings. On youtube it has a large amount of dislikes nearing the 200,000's

Article from PSMAG

 Source: www.psmag.com/culture/mouths-rapists-lyrics-robin-thickes-blurred-lines-66569/


Many lyrics from Robin Thicke's 'Blurred lines' are words that many sexual assault victims have been told.

The lyric "good girl" suggests that the victim should consent, the song is basically talking about how girls should consent to men.
another lyric "i know you want it" suggests that the victims want it, when really they don't, many victims have said that, their rapists have said that to them to persuade and force.

Overall Robin Thickes song is sexist and it portrays many negative sources, this clearly shows that this song is well and truly hated for the words and its true meaning.