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Robin Thicke's Twitter Q&A #AskThicke backfires completely

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http://edition.cnn.com/2014/07/01/showbiz/robin-thicke-twitter-backfire/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/01/robin-thicke-twitter-questions_n_5547397.html

VH1 organized a twitter q&a with fans for him. It was kicked off by asking people to use the #AskThicke when posing the questions. As you can imagine things went downhill quickly after that...

Some related to his hit Blurred Lines, other related to the separation from Paula Patton

Others more serious I guess based on his past interviews?

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When did he actually say "no means yes?"

But yeah, this and his latest album's first video are a pretty bad look.

Edit: "Do you think Tim Howard can save your marriage?" shit son, that's cold.
 
Lmaoooo
Good tbh tho. Blurred Lines was rape-y and the fact that he's named his new album after the wife that just divorced him and it contains track names like "You're My Fantasy", "Get Her Back", "Still Madly Crazy", "Lock the Door", and "Whatever I Want" is both cringe-worthy and creepy at the same time.
 
that song never struck me as about rape, it's about trying to convince a woman to commit adultery, but rape? How do you get that?
 
Sho_Nuff82 said:
When did he actually say "no means yes?"

But yeah, this and his latest album's first video are a pretty bad look.
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The whole of Blurred Lines.
"I know you want it"
"The way you grab me, must wanna get nasty" ( - this one is especially disturbing)
The whole song just reeks of "I am a man and all women are secretly nymphos that want to have sex with me" - and rape.
 
tghm1801 said:
The whole of Blurred Lines.
"I know you want it"
"The way you grab me, must wanna get nasty" ( - this one is especially disturbing)
The whole song just reeks of "I am a man and all women are secretly nymphos that want to have sex with me" - and rape.
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They don't seem any more provocative than 99% of pop lyrics. It's a song about trying to bang a girl already in a relationship.
 
Thicke supports rape culture and is a misogynist because of a song feminists interpreted the usual way they interpret stuff and now they're trolling him. So mature and smart. When the idiots from the other side are trolling like that they're manbabies and hateful.
 
tghm1801 said:
The whole of Blurred Lines.
"I know you want it"
"The way you grab me, must wanna get nasty" ( - this one is especially disturbing)
The whole song just reeks of "I am a man and all women are secretly nymphos that want to have sex with me" - and rape.
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To me, the second line shows that the other party initiated.
 
First, I don't understand what the outrage is about. How someone can take his lyrics out of context and twist it to imply he's hinting at sexual assault or rape is beyond me.

And why doesn't Pharrell get as much shit for that song? Last I heard he cowrote it. Should he get half the blame?
 
tghm1801 said:
The whole of Blurred Lines.
"I know you want it"
"The way you grab me, must wanna get nasty" ( - this one is especially disturbing)
The whole song just reeks of "I am a man and all women are secretly nymphos that want to have sex with me" - and rape.
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My pearls are clutched, just simply CLUTCHED, at this man's chicanery!
 
Robin Thicke is creepy as fuck but it has nothing to do with how some idiots choose to interpret Blurred Lines. These pr people are also idiots. Some of these tweets are hysterical though. The Howard one /dead
 
tghm1801 said:
The whole of Blurred Lines.
"I know you want it"
"The way you grab me, must wanna get nasty" ( - this one is especially disturbing)
The whole song just reeks of "I am a man and all women are secretly nymphos that want to have sex with me" - and rape.
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I can't facepalm hard enough. The arguments back then were just as illogical and reaching as they are now
 
tghm1801 said:
The whole of Blurred Lines.
"I know you want it"
"The way you grab me, must wanna get nasty" ( - this one is especially disturbing)
The whole song just reeks of "I am a man and all women are secretly nymphos that want to have sex with me" - and rape.
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How? It sounds like he is being felt up.
 
tghm1801 said:
The whole of Blurred Lines.
"I know you want it"
"The way you grab me, must wanna get nasty" ( - this one is especially disturbing)
The whole song just reeks of "I am a man and all women are secretly nymphos that want to have sex with me" - and rape.
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People say things like that all the time without raping anybody. Have you ever talked dirty to anyone? Been flirtatious at a club? smh

cartoon_soldier said:
i know you want it is something rape victims hear from their rapists too.
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I'm sure they do, but that doesn't make anyone who uses that phrase a rapist or a rape-advocate. Don't be ridiculous.
 
tghm1801 said:
The whole of Blurred Lines.
"I know you want it"
"The way you grab me, must wanna get nasty" ( - this one is especially disturbing)
The whole song just reeks of "I am a man and all women are secretly nymphos that want to have sex with me" - and rape.
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I agree that this song has sexually mysogninistic lyrics but, I've never quite understood why Robin Thicke gets criticized so much for this while basically every other pop song in history that has had much worse lyrics gets a pass. From 2000 -> 2010, almost every pop hip hop song played in bars was about objectifying women and using them as sexual objects, while doing things like throwing money on them or spraying them in champagne. Like, that Eminem / Rihanna song from a few years ago always seemed way more fucked up than this.

Honestly seems like people give Thicke a hard time because of that grammy performance with Miley Cyrus and then the fact that him and his wife are getting a divorce.
 
cartoon_soldier said:
i know you want it is something rape victims hear from their rapists too.
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You're watching too many crappy b-movies. People say shit like this when they're flirting all the time, just because some disgusting creep says it too doesn't make it automatically banned from the English language.
 
Mammoth Jones said:
First, I don't understand what the outrage is about. How someone can take his lyrics out of context and twist it to imply he's hinting at sexual assault or rape is beyond me.
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I also don't understand this. The song is about adultery, not rape. Not that adultery is morally right, mind you. Is it just the I know you want it line? Do people interpret that as rape-y? Come on...
 
The Albatross said:
I agree that this song has sexually mysogninistic lyrics but, I've never quite understood why Robin Thicke gets criticized so much for this while basically every other pop song in history that has had much worse lyrics gets a pass. From 2000 -> 2010, almost every pop hip hop song played in bars was about objectifying women and using them as sexual objects, while doing things like throwing money on them or spraying them in champagne. Like, that Eminem / Rihanna song from a few years ago always seemed way more fucked up than this.
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The one with the lyrics about physically assaulting a woman, tying her up and setting a house on fire?
 
tghm1801 said:
The whole of Blurred Lines.
"I know you want it"
"The way you grab me, must wanna get nasty" ( - this one is especially disturbing)
The whole song just reeks of "I am a man and all women are secretly nymphos that want to have sex with me" - and rape.
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How is this worse than the first one? It at least implies an action by the other person.
 
tghm1801 said:
The whole of Blurred Lines.
"I know you want it"
"The way you grab me, must wanna get nasty" ( - this one is especially disturbing)
The whole song just reeks of "I am a man and all women are secretly nymphos that want to have sex with me" - and rape.
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Agreed. This is just as indecent as Elvis gyrating on the Ed Sullivan Show. My puritanical soul can't take much more.

Sarcasm. But Thicke is still a dick.
 
agrajag said:
The one with the lyrics about physically assaulting a woman, tying her up and setting a house on fire?
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Yeah, always seemed a lot more fucked up than this Robin Thicke song... But I don't really follow the music industry closely, so maybe there was a similar reaction against it... I don't remember Eminem getting criticized as much as Robin Thicke does. All I really remember is that it was played over and over again at every bar.
 
backflip10019 said:
I mean yeah, the dude is clearly a dick and a misogynist, but he doesn't deserve any more hate than any other shitty misogynist.
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Misogynist? Where do you get 'he hates women' from the song? Have you seen the video? The entire video is him, pharrel and another third guy ( I forgot his name) flirting back and forth with half dressed supermodels at a photoshoot type setting. he gets denied non stop in the videos! He's begging for any type of attention.
 
TI's verse is the most lyrically coherent part of the song, and he's clearly rapping about convincing a girl to leave her man for him...for sex. Which is the subject of like half of male pop songs.
 
The Albatross said:
Yeah, always seemed a lot more fucked up than this Robin Thicke song... But I don't really follow the music industry closely, so maybe there was a similar reaction against it... I don't remember Eminem getting criticized as much as Robin Thicke does. All I really remember is that it was played over and over again at every bar.
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If there was any criticism, I don't think it caught much traction. I never heard anything about it.

I agree with you, it is exponentially more offensive than Blurred Lines. He explicitly raps about attacking and killing a woman, and there's no two ways to interpret that. The only thing to be outraged about in Thicke's song is some misogyny (and even that's a stretch that's contingent on watching a video) and adultery (if you're that sanctimonious).
 
META said:
Overrated goalkeeper for USA who allowed 2 goals in less than 15 minutes that subsequently got his nation booted from the World Cup.
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Don't want to derail but dude did you watch the whole match? That guy played the game of his life.
 
The Albatross said:
Yeah, always seemed a lot more fucked up than this Robin Thicke song... But I don't really follow the music industry closely, so maybe there was a similar reaction against it... I don't remember Eminem getting criticized as much as Robin Thicke does. All I really remember is that it was played over and over again at every bar.
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During the first half of his career, the media was all over Eminem and his lyrics every other day. It was the overarching theme of The Marshall Mathers LP (his second album). I can only assume at this point if the media isn't making a big fuss about an Eminem song it's because he's already a "known quantity," so to speak.
 
Blured lines is about rape? Didn't got that from the song but then again english is not my native language.
 
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