Robin Thicke’s hit ‘Blurred Lines’ continues to garner controversy, and this parody “Defined Lines” couldn’t be more timely. The song, created by the Law Revue Girls, an Auckland University student group, reverses the original song’s gender roles, in order to “define those supposedly ‘blurred lines’ and communicates the message clearly: “What you see on TV / Doesn’t speak equality / It’s straight up misogyny.”
Olivia Lubbock, one of the women featured in the video, told the AAP.
“The message really is just that we think that women should be treated equally, and as part of that, we’re trying to address the culture of objectifying women in music videos,”
The video was removed from YouTube for”inappropriate” sexual content, but has been restored. Lubbock called the video’s removal a “massive double standard,” since the models in Thicke’s original video are arguably far more sexualized. I might add that an enormous segment of the videos which do not draw public attention do little other than objectify women…A trend which ‘came out’ when little Hannah Montana sclothless her way across the stage to the horror of soccer moms everywhere.