"Blurred Line" by Robin Thicke - What do you think?

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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...