Thicke told the Daily Star in 2013 that the lyrics were “mostly throwaway fun,” adding that the song was about “the blurred line between a good girl and bad girl, people who want to get naughty.” Many listeners have argued that the single's catchy refrain - “I know you want it” - promotes rape culture by disregarding ...

Lines like “I know you want it,” “Tried to domesticate you” and “Do it like it hurt” sparked a debate about men's perceptions of sexual consent and the danger of believing that the “blurred lines” in the song's title could make a “no” mean a “yes.” It was baptized online as “the rape song,” and Vice called it “a ...

Keyboard-bass interplay: The songs feature bobbing keyboard and bass lines with similar rhythms and moments of silence. Though the chord progressions aren't identical - Miller pointed out that “Got To Give It Up” uses eight chords while “Blurred Lines” uses just two - Finell noted they both use E and A chords.

Got to Give It Up In the five years since a federal jury decided that Robin Thicke's hit song “Blurred Lines” had copied Marvin Gaye's disco-era standard “Got to Give It Up,” the music industry has been in an anxious state about copyright.

American supermodel Emily Ratajkowski has alleged she was sexually assaulted on the set of the music video for the hit song Blurred Lines. In her upcoming book, the 30-year-old accuses singer Robin Thicke of groping her without consent during filming of the 2013 video.

Examples of 'blur the line' in a sentence

1. Specifically, virtual reality video games that blur the line between what is real and what is not.
2. It does not help anybody if there is a blurred line.
3. To be a great motorcycle rider you have to blur the line between man and machine by winning on more than one bike.

The Blurred Lines case was unique, in that the two works at issue did not have similar melodies; the two songs did not even share a single melodic phrase. In fact, the two works did not have a sequence of even two chords played in the same order, for the same duration.

The Gaye family won. It could be because the song is said to promote date rape culture. Or it could be the allegations of Robin Thicke sexually assaulting the dancers. Emily Ratajkowski has accused him of sexually assaulting her on a music video set for the controversial 2013 hit Blurred Lines.

This case also involves another legal wrinkle: because “Blurred Lines” did not use Gaye's performance of “Got To Give It Up” (this is not a case where they “sampled” a recording of Gaye's performance), the only relevant musical elements were those in Gaye's composition, which under the law was limited to the music and ...

Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams were sued in 2013 over their song “Blurred Lines” by members of Gaye's family, who argued that it copied his disco-era hit “Got to Give It Up.” The two musicians were ordered to pay about $5 million, plus half of future royalties for the song.

That pop song was Robin Thicke's “Blurred Lines”, and the time was 2013. The backlash was widespread: it was banned from being played on several UK university campuses, YouTube removed the explicit version of the video, and the Guardian dubbed it “the most controversial song of the decade”.

Model, actress, author and mother Emily Ratajkowski has spoken out against singer Robin Thicke. In her new book, My Body, she alleges he sexually assaulted her during the filming of his controversial 2013 music video, Blurred Lines, in which Ratajkowski danced naked in the unrated version.