I then started to look at more of Thicke's music videos for songs on his recently released album. Sadly, the other videos are no better. The video for "Give it 2 U" shows multiple women dancing and is a least "kind enough" to give them names such as Ass Float Dancers or Luxury girls.
Tuesday, September 3, 2013
Late blog - Week of 9/1/13
After speaking about Blurred Lines in class, I was on Twitter and a friend had retweeted about this article. It covers Miley and Robin's performance both in terms of gender and race. I thought it was interesting to see the two combined and thought out in the manner that the author of the article does. The comments section of this article gives a lot of thought-provoking spin-off links to other commentaries on gender, race and class in the media and specifically music.
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I read this article as well! I think it did a good job of displaying the intersections behind who gets blamed for what when it comes to music videos and performances. I can't bring myself to watch anything else by Robin Thicke, though. Although, I'm sooooo glad he gave his dancers those nice names. How inclusive and feminist of him...
ReplyDeleteI agree with both of you!
ReplyDelete"It’s telling that Robin Thicke seems to be getting a pass amid all the media discussions of Miley. We have seen this before in so many contexts but yet again the sexual performances of men are judged by different standards as those of women." If I'm honest with myself, watching the performance, my mind was stuck on what Miley was doing and how it was super inappropriate. My mind didn't automatically judge Robin Thicke for his actions during the performance. It's so sad that we are taught to be so much more harsh towards women that we as women sometimes so easily fall into that trap.
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