Unless you were living under a rock the ENTIRE summer, you’ve probably heard the song “Blurred Lines” by Robin Thicke at least 80 billion times.  I’m not going to lie, the beat and his vocals are pretty good, yet the message of the entire song- and not only Thicke’s personal image for himself- is absolutely disgusting.

It is unacceptable that Thicke thinks releasing a piece of music with such a message is Ok for the public (especially kids) to hear in the first place. Personally, I wouldn’t want a child stumbling upon a radio station and hearing a 35-year-old man sing about his internal debate between consensual sex and rape.  There are a lot of things in society that are “blurred lines,” like gender, but not whether or not a girl wants to sleep with someone. With lyrics such as “I hate these blurred lines, I know you want it,” and, “Tried to domesticate you…Just let me liberate you,” the message is just repulsive. The dictionary definition of liberate is “to steal or take over illegally” which is something a man should NEVER do to a woman, and being married, one wouldn’t expect Thicke to be so disrespectful.

It’s as if he cannot differentiate between agreement and disagreement. There is more than one way of saying “no” then by vocalizing it. Sounds of protest, shaking one’s head, confused mumbles and obvious signs of intoxication are all ways of saying no. Thicke’s entire song is built on his trying to convince this girl that she does want to sleep with him, which just makes him a pig. Referring to the action of sleeping with him as being a “good girl” is bottom-line offensive. If a woman would be considered a “good girl” it would ACTUALLY mean that she doesn’t sleep with scum who want to liberate her and become her “maker.”

Moving on to the completely rude and vulgar music video for the song, Robin Thicke himself, Pharrel Williams, and T.I. who accompany him on the track literally stand there while observing topless girls prancing around in front of them . Not only is the concept of the men just gawking at the bare chested girls wearing nothing but nude thongs (the only double D needed in this situation is Disgusting and Degrading) it’s the age differences that really sends me over the edge. The “main” girl in the video is 21-year-old Emily Ratajkowski, and not only is she grossly 14 years younger than Thicke, but now she will forever be immortalized as “that one model who sashayed around nearly naked  in the ‘Blurred Lines’ video.”

Finally, during the 2013 VMAs, Robin Thicke made an absolute fool of himself as he let a 20-year-old girl provocatively dance against him in front of millions. (Did I mention he’s married?(Ok, just checking.) The drama of this year’s video music awards was talked about for weeks because of the hottest topic around, Miley Cyrus. But, the performance that withstood wouldn’t have been so scandalous if it wasn’t for Thicke’s antics. Cyrus stripped down into lingerie, mocking the outfits worn by the girls in the music video. Her latex-clad derriere literally never took a break from his groin for the entire performance. It’s repulsive to see this man letting a girl 15 years younger than him set such an example to the public. Teenage girls, teenage boys, and even some young kids watch the VMAs, and in some warped way they are seeing that people should just solicit sex all over the place.

I’m afraid of what this music industry is becoming, to be honest. It used to be all about the music.  But now, you can’t listen to most music without sex appeal being thrown into your face from every direction. I’ll admit that some artists out there are fine and they truly do it for the music, but with artists like Robin Thicke, pop culture gets dirtier every day. A person like him who’s every song and every source of self-production that has S-E-X written across it could end up being the demise of the entire industry.