14 DAY TRIAL // Robin Thicke's hit “Blurred Lines” is garnering criticism over its lyrics sending out a misogynistic message that basically refers to rape.
“Has anyone heard Robin Thicke’s new rape song?” said Lisa Huyne in her Feminist in LA blog.
Due to instances of strong language and imagery that might offend, we cannot embed the video here, but it is available on YouTube.
The clip is promoted by Vevo and has amassed about 62 million views. However, this is not the original video, but the censored version.
The original featured the already scantily clad models dancing around the three fully clothed performers with no clothes on. According to model Amy Davison, the imagery objectifies women.
More so, the lyrics hint at the fact that the singer knows how they are afraid of admitting to themselves that they want to say “yes.”
It's “positing that age-old problem where men think no means yes into a catchy, hummable song,” writes Tricia Romano for the Daily Beast.