Why so Issued?
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If you get some attention to the news, you would know that Robin Thicke's song, 'Blurred Lines' has been a big issue among some critics. 'Blurred Lines' by Robin Thicke has been remaining the top place in the Billboards. The song has grabbed the attention of the people by its provocative lyrics which actually brought a lot of controversies about it. The song is all about a man addressing woman to be sexually active, and encouraging woman to have sex with man. If Robin Thicke expressed these things indirectly, it would not be that issued. However, 'Blurred Lines' has so much direct lyrics that mainly degrade and objectify women. When I listen to the song without looking at the lyrics, I actually liked the song because of the melody. However, when I looked at the lyrics, I could not listen to this song again.
Blurred Lines
Here's the music video of the song. Even the music video is as provocative as the lyrics, and contains the concept of objectification of women by dressing up as almost naked, and by acting rude.(Pulling their hair, breathing the smoke towards the face of the woman) I could not understand the intend of this music video. It just ruined my feelings while looking at it.
Problems with 'Blurred Lines'
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The main problem with 'Blurred Lines' is the lyrics obviously. Robin Thicke uses 'bitches', 'you are an animal', or 'good girl' which show both the degradation of women and the superior side of the men. The lyrics of the song totally insults the women by assuming all women want to have sex with him, but are hiding their feelings. Also, he is saying that all good girls have some bad parts which are just covered by the blurred lines. Is it true that ALL women are so excited to have sex in their deep insight? Who would agree with this preposterous logic? Not only degrading women, but 'Blurred Lines' also expresses sex very lightly. I am not saying that sex should be somewhat deep topic, but it cannot be something light. What if young teenagers listen to this song and think that sex is something that they can easily do? Even the song is kinda 'rapey', which can strongly affect the audiences by growing the thought that all girls want sex in their deep insight, which is absolutely wrong. Even Edinburgh University in UK, banned this song by the reason of 'rapey' lyrics.( https://ed.edim.co/8003714/edinburgh_university_student_union_bans_robin_thicke_s_blurred_lines_because_it_trivialis.)
Why Do These Problems Matter?
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Some people say that the song is just the song, and banning it is an over reaction towards not that serious problem. However, today, world communicates through internet. Almost everyone access to internet and get a lot of information. But some information can affect people in bad ways, especially the teenagers who cannot filter what is wrong or right. Therefore, a song such as 'Blurred Lines' can strongly affect the teenagers to begin to have a wrong thought about women and sex. Any teenagers nowadays can access to the song very easily. The adults should be the one who should teach children good things and stop them from learning wrong things. However, now the adult is the one who is addressing the wrong idea to the young ones.
I agree with your opinion. Your comment is direct and shows which side you're on, it shows that you believe that this song is about rape. My comment is similar to yours especially where you talk about liking the song because of the melody but after understanding what the song means, you don't like the song anymore. You talk about how the lyrics are degrading to women and expresses rape in a light manner which I agree with. I think your comment is strong and has many examples which express your opinion and overall, it’s good. As for your blog, I think that it is very clear, it’s easy to read, and it’s organized. I think you could work on your grammar and spelling a bit but I understand what you mean in your comments. In your comments, you talk about the blogs about your views and thoughts. You also provide meaningful images and videos about what you're talking about which helps show that the blog is organized and arranged well. I enjoy reading the blog and I think that it’s good but there are some minor things that you could improve on.
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