Robin Thicke's biggest song of the year Blurred
Lines sure did make a massive hit when it came out last year but not so much
now.
The song promotes a horrible attitude towards sex
and consent which is why it has been an alarming issue for many women who view
it as 'rapey'. The music video portrays a widespread sexism and especially the
sexualisation and objectification of women which has a growing impact on
women's day to day lives. These types of messages depict women as highly
sexualised passive sex objects.
One might first listen to the song and find it
quite catchy and not pay much attention to how the phrases have been put or
intended but when looking closer to the lyrics of the song. He says:
" OK now he was close, tried to domesticate
you
But you're an animal, baby it's in your nature
Just let me liberate you
You don't need no paper, that man is not your
maker"
Implying that the woman should just leave her
boyfriend for him and that it's in her "nature"
The video itself shows three naked women prancing
around three fully dressed men. Robin Thicke absolutely degrades women in this
video. Most women these days are required to wear close to nothing whereas men
can stay fully clothed and still earn more attention than the women. Social
media and celebrities have managed to devalue the feminine sex and convince a
lot of the female population that they're worthless if they don't live up to
the expectations of society.
This targets the male group yet uses the female
group which are clearly not presented in the most appropriate way to do so.
This reveals a lot to us about our society and how
we as a society have altered our perspective of women and their position in our
society. They are viewed as nothing more than objects, inferior to men.
All in all this shows us how society has changed
its perspective vision of what is now seen as appropriate and what can actually
be accepted. As females in society continue to accept such a profane behavior
and attitude from celebrities, it slowly becomes the norm for females to be
viewed in such a manner, without this being viewed as disrespectful or of any
offense to women therefore lessening the outrage that showed be happening and
that women should be protesting.
I really like the point you made about how men can stay fully clothed but still earn more attention than women! I think that's a great way of summarizing all the problems that this video perpetuates. The worst part of some of these songs is how catchy they are - so you don't even realize what you're humming to. Nice job! :)
ReplyDeleteWhat does it tell us about society when half of Thicke's audience is likely female? Why isn't there be more outrage about a video like this?
ReplyDeleteI have heard about so much controversy surrounding this song and your post has summed it all up! I like how you also focused on the lyrics of the song which shows the true intentions that Thicke may have had in the song overall.
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