Robin Thiik's Blurth Lines is a pop song about lines of consent. The video for the song was banned from YouTube because it featured topless supermodels. After Miley Cyrus twerked on her teddy bear at the VMAs, people started calling the song rapey. Now Robin Thiik has made this really uncomfortable mess with his own performance in front of an angry audience.
Ed Sheeran just won a big copyright trial. But he might not have even been in court if not for Robin Thicke and Pharrell’s “Blurred Lines.” Pitchfork’s Jayson Greene explains how the song of the summer from 10 years ago simply refuses to go away.
This episode was produced by Hady Mawajdeh, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and Matt Collette, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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