Its feminist critics aside, the single have been well received by industry pros. Thicke told Metro UK that “he couldn’t be happier” with how the single has done. I’d love to give the video the credit but the song’s pretty good.” The song really took off as soon as it came out on radio.
1 on Digital Songs, with a total of 315,000 downloads sold, based on statistics by Nielsen SoundScan.Īsked by Metro UK if the single’s success can be attributed to the video with topless models, Thicke said, “The interesting thing is the topless video has around 25 million fewer views than the one with clothes on. The track, which was released with a controversial music video, spent a second week at No. According to Billboard, it is the first song to claim all three honors simultaneously since the lattermost award was introduced last year. 1 spot as the chart’s top digital, airplay and Streaming Gainer. The song, which features hip-hop artists T.I. said that “Blurred Lines” made history by becoming the fastest selling record in the country, breaking its own record twice, Billboard is reporting that Robin Thicke scored his first Billboard Hot 100 No.1.
Only weeks after the Official Charts Company (OCC) of the U.K. Men are always gonna want to follow them around.’”ĭespite the criticism it has received, however, the single has been riding a wave of success in the U.S. I've always respected women.’ So we just wanted to turn it over on its head and make people go, ‘Women and their bodies are beautiful. What a pleasure it is to degrade a woman. Responding to the criticism “Blurred Lines” has received, Thicke told GQ, “People say, ‘Hey, do you think this is degrading to women?’ I'm like, ‘Of course it is. The Huffington Post said that Thicke claimed to have asked his wife, actress Paula Patton, to work with the naked female models. The song is about how a girl wants crazy wild sex but doesn’t say it - positing that age-old problem where men think no means yes into a catchy, hummable song.”Īll three men in the video are married and have children. The Daily Beast’s Tricia Romano, according to The Hollywood Reporter, renewed the intense criticism Blurred Lines received on Monday when she wrote, “The subject itself is enough to make some female music fans uncomfortable. Call me a cynic, but that phrase does not exactly encompass the notion of consent in sexual activity.”
In April, blogger Lisa Huynh wrote, “Has anyone heard Robin Thicke's new rape song? Basically, the majority of the song…has the R&B singer murmuring ‘I know you want it’ over and over into a girl’s ear. Recently, “Blurred Lines” has been criticized from feminists and a number of bloggers for its sexual lyrics. The tamer version of the video, which shows the female models clothed but with clear plastic tops, is still on YouTube and has now been seen more than 50 million times, according to The Hollywood Reporter. “YouTube took down the Unrated version of #BLURREDLINES because it was too hot," said Robin Thicke in a tweet last March. Robin Thicke announced that his album bearing the single’s name will be released on July 30.īut when the video was released last March, video-sharing giant YouTube thought the Blurred Lines music video crossed the line and was too explicit, according to E! 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart and on iTunes. Blurred Lines also popularized the #thicke hashtag on Twitter and has brought the R&B veteran singer his biggest hit. Robin Thicke’s unrated video of Blurred Lines, featuring naked female models, has been seen almost 500,000 times on Vevo.
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