What a pleasure it is to degrade a woman. "People say, 'hey, do you think this is degrading to women?' I'm like, 'Of course it is. "Because all three of us are happily married with children, we were like, 'we're the perfect guys to make fun of this'. "Bestiality, drug injections, and everything that is completely derogatory towards women," he said. Thicke told GQ in 2013 that the whole idea of the music video was to do something taboo. "Perhaps it really is about getting mixed signals from a lady who you think might be interested in doing the deed - and then letting her know exactly where you stand so she can make the next move - if she wants." 'What a pleasure it is to degrade a woman' "The lines here aren't between rape and consensual sex," she wrote. However, others defended the song, such as Jennifer Lai, who wrote about the song in a piece for Slate in 2013. "People who are agitated just want to be mad," Williams said about the song's controversy in 2014. "The song is about how a girl really 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." "The nudity might be fine if the song was called, Let's All Have Some Fun, but it's called Blurred Lines and the subject itself is enough to make some female music fans uncomfortable," she wrote. In a piece for culture website The Daily Beast, Tricia Romano described the song as "kind of rapey". When Blurred Lines was first released, there was criticism that the lyrics perpetuated rape culture and was triggering to women who had experienced sexual assault.įor some, lyrics such as "I know you want it" trivialised the disconnect between a woman's appearance and behaviour and a man interpreting it as consent for sex. "This is a man with a lot of power and a lot of money and a lot of influence, he could do some good with this," Dr O'Regan said. "It's really easy to say sorry… but how about putting your money where your mouth is and make the music industry an inclusive place for women and people who identify as female or non-binary?"ĭr O'Regan said it was easy to be cynical about artists in the wake of the MeToo movement, which brought a heightened awareness of exploitation and inequality in the entertainment industry.īut she hopes that someone like Williams coming out and criticising his own work is indicative of real change in the industry. "Apologising is meaningful but you have to follow through after that," she said. "I think it's very surprising that even in 2013 he didn't seem to realise that the music industry and the culture he was contributing to was a chauvinistic culture," Dr O'Regan said. Jadey O'Regan, a lecturer at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music at the University of Sydney, said Williams' comments were positive but that the artist should have known better. The rapper told the magazine he was "embarrassed" by some of his old songs which he would not write today, saying it "took a lot of time and growth" to come to that realisation. "My mind opened up to what was actually being said in the song and how it could make someone feel." "I realised that there are men who use that same language when taking advantage of a woman, and it doesn't matter that that's not my behaviour," he said. Williams, in an interview with GQ magazine, said some of his songs catered to a "chauvinist culture", singling out the criticism of Blurred Lines as a turning point for him.
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