How Blurred Lines Became A Song About Rape

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A deep dive into how an innocuous piece of pop fluff became the most vilified song in music history.

The song at the beginning is Blurred Lines by Robin Thicke.
The clip used with the bearded gentleman is from Music for a Sushi Restaurant by Harry Styles.
The song during the headlines is All by Akira Yamaoka from the Silent Hill soundtrack.
All the audio interview segments are from Robin Thicke's appearance on the Howard Stern Show 29/7/2013.
The video footage of Thicke talking is from a deposition in April 2014 during the Blurred Lines Marvin Gaye lawsuit.
The footage of the two cops talking is from Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Season 3 Episode 2 (The Funeral)
The clip of the girl being walked like a dog is from the To Be Loved music video by Papa Roach. The song playing over it is Prosper Yop la Boum by Maurice Chavalier taken from the movie Eurotrip when the gang are waiting at the Louvre.
The clip after is from Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery.
The silhouetted shot which follows is from The Rocky Horror Picture Show
The last shot in that sequence of the werewolf is from the long version of the music video for Thriller by Michael Jackson. All other music video clips used are mentioned in the video.

The majority of the images are either shameless taken from Google images, screen grabbed from Google or screen grabbed from YouTube (or some other video source).

Also if you're interested the four pictures shown before the 'Rap Part' music videos are from the music videos of:
Top of the World by Brandy
Dirrty by Christina Aguilera
Heartbreaker by Mariah Carey
American Boy by Estelle

All excellent pop songs from the 90s and 2000s which I highly recommend.
Also, the only place on the entire internet I could find that Robin Thicke interview on Howard Stern was here:



The video is marked as 'private' and won't play but there is a Sound Cloud player underneath (as of writing this) that still works. I found it really fascinating listening to the interview again after all these years and if you've got an hour to kill, give it a listen.

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