♪ (punk rock music) ♪
- Oh gosh.
This is the clean version, right?
- The first time I watched it, it was the unrated version.
I was like, "They allow this on YouTube?!"
- This is the worst thing ever.
- ♪ Hey, hey, hey ♪ - I'm sure we've all already seen this.
- I think I'm the only person that's not sick of this song.
- ♪ Woo! ♪ - I love this song.
- ♪ If you can't hear what I'm tryin' to say ♪
♪ If you can't read... ♪ - (laughing) What is this?
- ♪ ...from the same page ♪ - Is that T.I.?
- ♪ Maybe I'm going deaf (hey, hey, hey) ♪
♪ Maybe I'm going blind ♪ - ♪ Hey, hey, hey ♪
- ♪ Maybe I'm out of my mind ♪
- (laughs) - ♪ Okay, now he was close ♪
- (singing along) ♪ Tried to domesticate ya ♪
- ♪ But you're an animal ♪ (mouthing lyrics)
♪ Baby, it's in your nature ♪
♪ Just let me liberate (hey, hey, hey) ♪
- Those plastic clothes cannot be comfortable.
- That's some nice girls.
- These girls are so pretty! I can't even deal.
- ♪ Can't let it get past me ♪
♪ You're far from plastic ♪ - I'm feeling really uncomfortable.
- ♪ I hate these blurred lines ♪
- (singing along) ♪ I know you want it ♪
- ♪ I know you want it ♪ (mouthing lyrics)
♪ Oh yeah, you want it ♪
♪ But you're a good girl ♪ - This is making want to, like,
start moving with the music.
- ♪ Must wanna get nasty ♪
♪ Go ahead, get at me (everybody, come on) ♪
♪ What do they make dreams for? ♪
- Good thing the song's good. (laughs)
'Cause the video's not very good.
- (soufully) ♪ Ye-e-e-e-eah ♪
(rapping) ♪ One thing I ask of you ♪
- Have you guys seen the Bill Clinton edit to this?
♪ I'll give you something big enough to tear your ass in two ♪
♪ Swag on 'em even when you dress casual ♪
♪ I mean, it's almost unbearable ♪
♪ No more pretending (hey, hey, hey) ♪
- Ew! - ♪ 'Cause now you're winning ♪
- That is so gross!
- Oh, feet. I hate feet.
- I hope she washed her feet.
- ♪ You're a good girl ♪
- Why is that-- why do they have hashtags across the screen?
- (singing along) ♪ I know you want it ♪
- ♪ But you're a good girl ♪
♪ Can't let it get past me ♪ - Ew!
You really like a foot fetish on your face.
- ♪ Talk about getting blasted ♪
♪ I hate these blurred lines ♪
- Is this what they call pop culture?
- "Robin Thicke has a big D." (laughs)
- ♪ I know you want it, But you're a good girl ♪
- What the hell?!
- I think he's trying to overcompensate a little bit with that one.
- (singing along) ♪ Hey, hey, hey ♪
♪ (music winds down) ♪
(snickers)
- It's like, "We get it." #THICKE.
Like, how many times do they have to hashtag him?
- (dully) Hey, hey, hey.
♪ (punk rock music) ♪
- (Finebros) So what did we just show you?
- Robin Thicke... "Hey, Baby?"
Is that what it's called? I don't know.
I've heard the chorus and that's it.
- Robin Thicke, Blurred Lines,
featuring Pharrell Williams and T.I.
- #BlurredLines, um-- oh my god! I'm so ashamed I did that.
- (Finebros) Do you like the song? - It's not bad.
- Yeah, it's really catchy.
- Yeah, I like the song.
- You know, it gets overplayed on the radio
so I'm a little sick of it, but you know, it's a good song.
- It's just not my style.
- When I listen to the song, it's not even that my life
is not any better after it;
it's that my life is actually a little bit worse
because I feel like I've become a lesser being.
- (Finebros) And what about the music video?
What do you think about it? - It was... interesting enough.
- Waaah, it was kind of boring.
- It was like random hashtags popping up on the screen.
- Hashtags are taking over.
It's not Instagram. It's a video!
- It made me feel really uncomfortable. I feel a little violated.
- Who is sitting here, watching this video
and being like, "Oh my god. This is so much fun.
I love, like, watching this. I love watching these girls
completely degrade themselves."
- The music video is VERY entertaining-- the unrated version.
I was surprised, but entertained.
- (Finebros) Did you know that there's another version
of this music video? - Yes, I've watched that one.
- Yeah, I-I watched it.
- My friends told me about it.
- No, I did not.
- No, I have no idea.
- No. Do I get to see it?
- (Finebros, sternly) No. - Aww.
- (Finebros) Well, the other version is similar in style
except the girls are topless. - Okay.
(chuckles) All right.
- Why?!
To make a "statement"? (giggles)
- Why do that for a video?
What does that have to do with music?
- Actually, maybe in a way it was better
because then there was less blurred lines in the message.
It was more to the point and everyone is on the same page.
Like, these girls are being sexualized.
- (Finebros) How does the song in the video portray women?
- Just as sex objects.
- Well, it's not a good portrayal for them,
and it's not anything any young girl should aspire to.
- It is just disrespectful to make something like that of women
'cause most women are not like that.
- That's what pop culture is, is putting women down.
"Oh, you know you want it.
Oh, you know, you're such a good girl--
and, no, you can't have it. Oh, but you want it."
- Those girls, they volunteered to do a music video
just, like, topless for millions of people to see
and they don't even care.
They're just like, "Okay, whatever."
Like, have some respect for yourself, woman.
- I don't get what's such a big deal about naked people.
- They just want people to talk about the video
and people to watch it.
They're very, very pretty,
and I think they're just, you know-- they're having fun, you know?
- If a guy watches this, they think it's completely okay
to do that to a woman, and it's not okay to do that.
And that's what makes me so upset about this video.
- (Finebros) Well, is it okay then to like this song
if that's what it's saying and what the video is portraying?
- I don't really have a problem with it.
- It's a song.
It's not like it's this whole movement-- like "women suck", you know?
- No, it isn't.
But we're all hypocrites, so it's okay.
- I mean, I watch Game of Thrones.
It doesn't really matter either way.
They were pretty much naked in that too.
- The average person listening to this song
isn't gonna be like, "Hmm, what are the sociological
ramifications of a song like this?"
So it's like-- I think it's fine.
I think it's just a little bit embarrassing to society
that this is such a popular song.
- It does annoy me-- you know, me being a big feminist and everything.
- I don't think that it's right that's it's so, like,
anyone can look at it 'cause it's just on YouTube.
You can just click that you're 18 and that's it.
- I like the song, but it's hard because of the subject matter.
I don't know. It depends.
(groans) This is so hard.
- (Finebros) Early on, Robin Thicke said
the video was meant to show
everything that was derogatory towards women
because we're happily married men with children,
so we're the perfect guys to make fun of this.
- He's a married man with kids
and his wife let him do that?
(gasps) What?
- What?! Make fun? Make fun of it?
- Okay, it sounds like he's just using cop-outs
to not sound like a dick.
- (snorts) That's such bull[bleep].
- (Finebros) Then he went on to say if people ask him if it's degrading to women
and he said, "Of course it is.
What a pleasure to degrade a woman.
I've never gotten to do that before.
I've always respected women."
- (snickers) That's kind of funny.
Like, that's horrible, but that's kind of funny.
- What?
"What a pleasure to degrade a woman"?
- What?! And he's still married?
What a douche.
- (Finebros) He later defended his comments,
saying that he was just joking. - Okay.
This is literally like my brother, who will say anything
and we're like, "That's the stupidest thing ever."
He's like, "I was kidding."
- A kid listening to the lyrics,
they're not gonna take it as being funny.
They're gonna grow up and think,
"Oh, if she says no she could really mean yes."
- Instead of making it a joke and then people taking it seriously,
he should just talk about being respectful towards women.
- Why is it necessary to make fun of women?
There are plenty of people that do that,
and we need more people who are respectful of us.
- (Finebros) Further, he claims the song is a feminist movement.
(incredulous laughter)
- He's lying. (laughs)
- (sarcastically) Ha. Ha. Feminist movement? That?
Okay. Okay.
- How is this right?
(rapping table) Goddamn it, people.
- I mean, the first part was okay.
Saying it was a feminist movement probably wasn't his smartest idea.
- If it's supposed to be a feminist movement,
it should be completely different.
Girls should not be topless. (laughs)
- (Finebros) So after having all this discussion,
how does it make you feel about this song being so popular?
- Well, I still like the way it goes
and it's still gonna get stuck in my head all the time.
- It just makes me go, "Why? Why not something else?"
- Now, when I hear it on the radio,
I'm probably gonna change the station.
- Honestly, it really doesn't even matter.
He did this and he made it an even bigger problem
than it already was.
But then it's just gonna happen again.
- I think we're thinking a little too much about it,
but when you're gonna do something as stupid as that,
then it just becomes apparent, and then we should start paying attention.
- If we keep saying, "Oh, it's just a song.
It doesn't matter. It's just a song. It doesn't matter."
The behavior is gonna keep being affected
and it's gonna keep getting worse
and there's no way that we're ever gonna fix it.
- It just makes me, even more so, want to
evaluate every situation I'm in
in a more objective way, and not just like it
because someone else likes it.
It just reinforces the idea that the group opinion is--
not that it's always wrong, but just that many times it can be wrong.
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