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Blurred Lines: Metacritic Thread
40 The Guardian Original Score: 2/5
Whether it's "rapey" is debatable, but Thicke certainly doesn't do himself many favours elsewhere on the album. The music is sunny funk/soul, there are seamless cameos from Pharrell and Kendrick Lamar, and Thicke proves a loose-limbed loverman of a vocalist – but the positive qualities are overshadowed by his blunt-instrument romantic technique. He regularly divests himself of dignity, claiming on Give It 2 U that he's "got a little Thicke for you, big dick for you", offering on Take It Easy on Me to "rip through all your fancy clothes" to "get a shot of your underwear" and so on. Shame: this could have been a pretty good album.
40 The Independent Original Score: 2/5
Thicke's wheedling tone and sylvan falsetto are engaging enough on this sixth album, though his clumsily backhanded way with a compliment (“You're far from plastic” – gee, thanks!) deteriorates as the album proceeds, from the simply tasteless to gross, predatory boasts about having “a big dick for ya” on “Give It 2 U”. Musically it's too predictable to make much of an impression, apart from the retro-disco-funk groove of “Ain't No Hat 4 That”, which recalls the slick heyday of Earth, Wind & Fire.
40 The Observer Original Score: 2/5
Some people make music to communicate the stirrings of their soul. Robin Thicke makes music to communicate to you the size of his penis. I'm not being figurative: on the charmless Give it 2 U he promises his lady friend "a big dick for you" and then there's the uncensored video for the fastest-selling single of the year, Blurred Lines, that features G-stringed women dancing past the words "Robin Thicke has a big dick". Some of these tunes are passable party pabulum but Thicke is such a total tool that it gets in the way of any fun.
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