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What is this song all about?
“Blurred Lines” is a song by Robin Thicke, released last March 2013. It
features T.I. and Pharrell. This song has catchy beat and tune which
led it to top different music charts over the world and even rank the
first in the Billboard chart. However, the song brought up different
controversies due to its lyrics and music video.
Because
of these criticisms, we had analyzed the lyrics of song during our
English class to know more about it. In the discussion, we had read
over the lyrics closely and we also directed ourselves to what the
public says about the song. According to our interpretation, the
speaker of the lyrics was a man trying to convince a woman to engage
in a sexual relationship with him. The audience was a woman who was
being convinced by the man but she is already in a relationship with
another man. The basic situation contained in the song is that a man
was getting the woman to be in a sexual relationship with him
although the woman had already engaged in a relationship with another
man. The man is trying to convince that the woman wants it as well
and she is being degraded as an 'animal'.
My opinion...
To
be honest, I never heard the song or I never paid attention to it
before the discussion in class. Is it only me? Well, before the
interpretation of the song, we had listened to the song once. This
was my first time to hear the song and I found it very catchy as
well, like most of the people did. Did you? However, after we had
looked closely into the lyrics, I found the song very shocking. The
song was disgusting in terms of how it portrays a woman. I may surely
be biased in my opinion but when I came to truly know about the
lyrics, I did not want to listen to the song anymore despite its
catchy tune and beat. I agreed to the article on Mail Online which
said that the song is banned in an university because it 'trvialises
rape'. I thought that this might be really true. This is a song which
is played anywhere and for anyone, even the little children and
teenagers like me. Although not everyone of us would listen to the
song after analyzing it, I still find it 'awkward' as it is trying to
suggest to the young listeners that rape is an 'okay' thing. I found it
more disturbing when Robin Thicke said in an interview that it is fun
to degrade a woman. He later explained that this was just a joke but
I don't really think it was entirely a joke. The Huffington Post also
uploaded an article about this matter and because of that, I came to
know that Robin Thicke thinks there is nothing wrong with the song
and in fact, it is even promoting the rights of a women. This quite
confused me because his stand was the extremes. I also had so many
questions in my mind. Is the catchy tune really more important than
the message of the song? Would a song still be considered as
something 'artistic' with this kind of controversies over the lyrics?
Well, I thought that music was supposed to build communication and
give a form of entertainment 'equally' for men and women. As a girl,
I may be only looking at one side of this issue but I do think that
this song went over the limitations on what a song is to be. I hope that
these songs would be tolerated from now on to create a better world
for men and women.
Now, what do you think about the song? I think it is now the time for us to be more concerned on what we are exposed to in our world...
Now, what do you think about the song? I think it is now the time for us to be more concerned on what we are exposed to in our world...
