Robin Thicke's 'Blurred Lines' Parody by Auckland Law Students Creates Controversy
A parody was released as a feminist response to Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines" song featuring Auckland law students. The video is currently creating an online stir as the three female singers identified as Adelaide Dunn, Olivia Lubbock and Zoe Ellwood performed their version with vulgar lyrics to the popular tune while frolicking with men wearing only underpants.
Parody on Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines" Song. Photo Credit: Twitter/@All_Trends_IT
The "Blurred Lines" parody video is part of the University of Auckland Law Revue which is a show of 40 sketches performed at the SkyCity Theatre to 1500 audience present. The video shared on YouTube has already garnered over 400,000 views since it was published last Friday, August 30.
The law students, all 22 years of age, wrote the lyrics with Milon Tesiram as the producer. It took the group five hours to finish the parody video and just one day of editing the whole thing.
The parody song lyrics include: "Boy you'd better quit all your sexist ways, so hear our manifesto of the modern age. It's time to undermine the masculine confines coz we don't wanna grind." The team behind the video parody explained: "We just want some people to think about the original video and some of the reactions people have had to it. It is meant to be taken tongue in cheek."
They further added: "We understand that it is a common theme in the media for particular men to have videos with women frolicking around and stuff like that. But the attitude of the whole thing came across to us as being quite arrogant, especially with the issue of consent, some of his lyrics were quite questionable and a bit presumptive."
One of the comments on YouTube for the "Blurred Lines" parody include username hannEton87 who wrote: "This video was an appropriate response to Blurred Lines! The girls aren't even denying they're sexual beings, talking about vibrators and "You wanna get nasty?/Then don't harass me". They're just saying you gotta treat us with respect and trying to put the shoe on the other foot. The fact that so many men are angry shows it worked. Btw, for future generalizations (and giving you license to troll me)- I'm feminist who loves men."
"Blurred Lines" became a worldwide success for the Canadian-American music artist Robin Thicke as the single topped the charts in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the United Kingdom and Germany. The official music video for "Blurred Lines" received negative feedbacks as well with critics believing that the song's message is about "blurring the lines between consensual and non-consensual sex" but Robin Thicke explained during an interview with GQ magazine that the song is about breaking taboos.
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