However, Thicke not wanting to come off as a shitty dog owner implements the characters of Pharrell the dog catcher and T. The dog is a good girl, but refuses to listen to its master—possibly because of arthritis.
We close the song with zero resolution. So there you have it. These words are for us all. Beyond Worthy , by Jacqueline Whitney. Sign up for the Thought Catalog Weekly and get the best stories from the week to your inbox every Friday. You may unsubscribe at any time. This is the latest development in the story of how the biggest song of the year became the most controversial of the decade: an unprecedented achievement, though not one that fills Thicke with pride. It seems impossible that anyone with the faintest interest in popular culture could have missed either the song or the controversy, but here is a recap.
In April, one blogger branded it a "rape song" , and two months later Tricia Romano of the Daily Beast described it as "rapey" , a word that caught fire in other media outlets. The song might have escaped censure if the video, in which the three male performers goof around with scantily clad and, in one version, topless models, had not generated its own separate yet overlapping controversy.
Throughout the summer, as the song eclipsed even Daft Punk's Get Lucky as the biggest hit of , debate about its sexual politics heated up. In September, contributors to Project Unbreakable , a photographic project dedicated to rape survivors, held up placards comparing words spoken by their attackers to lines from the song. The song says: 'You know you want it. By that point, Thicke's hit was part of a bigger debate about the messages of pop lyrics and videos.
Miley Cyrus's performance at the Video Music Awards in August, during which Thicke popped up like some kind of sex-pest Zelig, ignited another firestorm of indignation on several fronts. How do you stop your kids being exposed to it? This week, a tipping point has been reached. Lily Allen launched the video to her comeback single, Hard Out Here , which takes aim at music industry sexism with specific reference to the Blurred Lines video.
They're tired of messages that depict women as highly sexualised passive sex objects. Getting rid of one song won't solve the problem. It's a culture of racism and sexism that we need to change. The ensuing climate of censorship reached a peak in , when rapper Ice-T's rock band Body Count buckled to huge political pressure and deleted their song Cop Killer.
They pointedly replaced it on the album with a new song called Freedom of Speech. That moral panic was driven by older, more conservative campaigners, but much of the current opposition to pop's excesses stems from young feminists.
If the MTV generation was the first to be exposed to the power of music videos, then the YouTube generation is the first to understand those videos in the context of social media and online discourse. Cultural consumers have never been more attuned to the messages, both explicit and implicit, embedded in popular artforms.
Arguments about racism, misogyny and cultural appropriation that used to thrive primarily in academia are now mainstream. Sometimes these concerns about "problematic" art go to comical extremes — the Tumblr Your Fave Is Problematic leaves you wondering if there is anything out there that isn't problematic — but at least young consumers are asking the right questions, in the spirit of playwright August Wilson's axiom: "All art is political in the sense that it serves someone's politics.
Even the most prominent model in the Blurred Lines video, Emily Ratajkowski, has said: "I'm glad that people are criticising pop lyrics, because I think that's an important thing to do. Many people who follow pop music closely, however, are surprised that Blurred Lines has become such a lightning rod.
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