"Blurred Lines"

I remember hearing this song on the radio when it first came out, and I have to say I liked it. The song has catchy lines and you sing it without even realizing what you’re saying.  Like most music that comes on the radio, most people don’t know what the lyrics actually are saying or mean. Now that I have taken the time to read the lyrics, I can say that I am very disappointed. Robin Thicke’s song, “Blurred Lines” created this tension to if this song is morally harmful and discriminating women in society, which I believe it does.

In the articles as well as the video, it is obvious to see that Thicke is talking about women, but in a negative way. The first article, I believe, got straight to the point with “The women are clearly being used as objects to reinforce the status of the men in the video.” The fact that the men have all the “control and status” over the women shows through because the men are fully covered.  Meanwhile, the women are very scantily dressed dancing around the men.  What’s interesting is that Thicke told VH1 that he didn’t think they weren’t “ogling and degrading them”, just “laughing and being silly with them.” I do not for one second believe that’s true. The lyrics prove that alone. “Talk about getting blasted, I hate these blurred lines, I know you want it, but you’re a good girl, the way you grab me, must want to get nasty.” The message behind female identity to these men, from these lines, defines the fact that the girls in this video come off as wanting to portray their "good girl" act, then Thicke tells her and the rest of the audience it's okay to be a bad girl. It’s okay and socially acceptable to “unleash” her “animal” side that all she wants is “crazy wild sex” and it is therefore in our “nature” to “get nasty though the song does not come right out and say that, but it is implied thought the context of this song.

The song name itself, “Blurred Lines,” brings across some questions as to what are the boundaries. Are they really not noticeable when it comes between what’s right and wrong? Although the view can also get another view off of this song title and the meaning behind it as well. “You're far from plastic” as Thicke sings, can have the impression that girls are hard to read. We all have heard from many that girls are so complicated and you never know the right approach as to what to say as a guy. Well, Thicke is saying that we are actually human beings, who have feelings and emotions. But then he precedes to go on about “getting blasted” and that he hates “these blurred lines “between using girls or actually treating them with respect as humans.