Robin Thicke ‘Blurred Lines’ Unrated Video: R&B Singer Tired Of Critics Calling His Hit Song 'Rapey’ And Misogynistic, Says ‘I Can’t Even Dignify That With A Response’ [VIDEO]

Robin Thicke and his “Blurred Lines” songs, which has been a hit worldwide, has been receiving endless criticism with many saying that the lyrics are “rapey” and the song itself “misogynistic.”

“I can’t even dignify that with a response, that’s ridiculous,” the R&B veteran singer said in an interview with BBC’s Radio 1.

According to the Huffington Post, despite professed lack of interest to respond to the hurled insults at his song, he sent out a message to his critics.

"I don't want to be sleazy, I'm a gentleman, I've been in love with the same woman since I've been a teenager. I don't want to do anything inappropriate."

Robin Thicke said that it was his wife, actress Paula Patton, who urged him to release the unrated video of his “Blurred Lines” song, which was pulled from and then re-added to YouTube.

"My initial response was I love the clothed version, I don't think we should put out the naked version," Robin Thicke said. "And then I showed it to my wife and all of her girlfriends and they said, 'You have to put this out, this is so sexy and so cool.'"

In the video, Thicke, Pharrell Williams and T.I. are surrounded with naked female models, flipping their hair and generally dancing around them, while being flirtatious the whole time. Critics has dubbed the unrated version of the video as “rapey,” referring to lines like “I know you want it” and the video as “blurring” the lines of consent and agency, reported the Huffington Post.

Robin Thicke, however, doesn’t think about it that way.

“For me it’s about blurring the lines between men and women and how we’re the same,” the singer said, “And the other side which is the blurred lines between a good girl and a bad girl, and even very good girls all have little bad sides to them.”

His response, however, was not in conjunction with an earlier and also controversial rebut to all the negative things said about his song.

In an interview with GQ, Robin Thicke said:

"We tried to do everything that was taboo. Bestiality, drug injections, and everything that is completely derogatory towards women. Because all three of us are happily married with children, we were like, 'We're the perfect guys to make fun of this.'”

“People say, 'Hey, do you think this is degrading to women?' I'm like, 'Of course it is. What a pleasure it is to degrade a woman. I've never gotten to do that before. I've always respected women.' So we just wanted to turn it over on its head and make people go, 'Women and their bodies are beautiful. Men are always gonna want to follow them around.'"

Despite everything that has been said against the song, it’s on its way to becoming the hit song of the summer, dominating the charts in the U.S. and Canada and making history as fastest selling record for the year in the U.K.

Click the link Here to watch the unrated version of Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines" [Warning: NSFW].

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