Blurred Lines Critical Review

When I first heard the song 'Blurred Lines,' I found it catchy -- and I still do find it catchy. But like most popular songs today, it isn't very modest. Songs like this should not be "okay" just because there are many like it. I personally do not think the song is "rapey," but it is most definitely not fair to women. I also cannot say that the song and video are "far from being 'rapey' (Lai)" because of the analysis from Romano. She had some nice points that Lai had tried to disprove, like the uncomfortable repetition of lyrics and the content of the video. Like mentioned in both articles, the women in the music video were featured without clothes while the men were fully clothed. That just shows inequality from the get-go. Yes, "a woman's body has been painted and sculpted and talked about since the beginning of man, (Thicke in Romano's Essay)" but that does not mean that the men can't also be painted, sculpted, and talked about. I believe that either the men and women should both be fully clothed, or not -- equality is key. If we as a society continue to overlook these cases of objectification, we will never reach that true equality we have been striving for. If men (and women) like Robin Thicke continue to make music and videos like 'Blurred Lines,' I hope they can at least try to make them a little more equal, and think about the different kinds of backlash that could possibly occur.