No one really thought of Robin thick this way when he first pops up in the culture. He looks like a total like Cheshire burnout dude from like a Judd Apatow comedy. Only reason I started selling pot is so I could put my buddy in a nice retirement. His voice is elastic enough It's got a little bit of green to it So he's not completely smooth, but he's pretty smooth and he works pretty well in a variety of contexts.
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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