14 DAY TRIAL // Robin Thicke struck gold with his single “Blurred Lines,” especially after he released the totally unsafe for work official music video, an edited version of which is still available online. Objectifying and sexist, the video now has the perfect companion.
“Boylesque” group Mod Carousel from Seattle has turned the tables on Thicke: in this video here (*please note that discretion is recommended because it contains images that might offend), the male singers are actually the skimpily dressed models in the original.
Female singers Caela Bailey, Sydni Devereaux and Dalisha Philips stand in for Thicke, Pharrell Williams and T.I., respectively.
“It's our opinion that most attempts to show female objectification in the media by swapping the genders serve more to ridicule the male body than to highlight the extent to which women get objectified and does everyone a disservice,” the male group says of how they came up with the idea for the “spoof.”
So far, reactions to the video have been divided but the majority of viewers “get it” now why Thicke’s original was so offensive for women.