The track, which was released with a controversial music video, spent a second week at No.
According to Billboard, it is the first song to claim all three honors simultaneously since the lattermost award was introduced last year. 1 spot as the chart’s top digital, airplay and Streaming Gainer. The song, which features hip-hop artists T.I. said that “Blurred Lines” made history by becoming the fastest selling record in the country, breaking its own record twice, Billboard is reporting that Robin Thicke scored his first Billboard Hot 100 No.1. Only weeks after the Official Charts Company (OCC) of the U.K. The clip can no longer be found on YouTube, although a much tamer version remains on the site, reports E online.
“YouTube took down the Unrated version of #BLURREDLINES because it was too hot," said Robin Thicke in a tweet last March.
1 on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart.īut a few weeks ago when the video was released, video-sharing giant YouTube thought the Blurred Lines music video crossed the line and was too explicit, according to E! Blurred Lines not only popularized the #thicke hashtag on Twitter but has also received millions of views since its launch. I’m assuming he still gets laid as much as Joey Fatone, though.Robin Thicke’s unrated video of Blurred Lines, featuring naked female models, was a social media success. Timberlake’s lack of proximity, emotional or otherwise, makes the nudity in “Tunnel Vision” a wasted effort. Isaak and Christensen are all over each other because the viewer feels they want to be. “Wicked Game”-Chris IsaakĬannily (get it?) showing nought but the butt-crack of Helena Christensen, Herb Ritts’ splendid video of Chris Isaak’s languid torch song is the perfect marriage of nudity and audio. Then there’s 1989’s “Wicked Game,” which ties it all together. “The Chauffeur” tells the story of three femme-y dominatrices who all take vehicles to the same London garage, then do dances there.ĭuran Duran – The Chauffeur from mm1 on Vimeo. Why wouldn’t they be naked?ĭuran Duran – Girls On Film by hushhush112 “Girls on Film”-Duran Duranĭuran Duran’s 1982 album “Rio” spawned two racy videos that were not only titillating but also-especially in the case of the Helmut Newton and ocarina-inspired “Chauffeur”-made narrative sense.įor example, in “Girls on Film,” Duran Duran is singing about girls who appear on film.
The only complaint I have about the video is that I think it’s going to inspire some serious hashtag douchebaggery. Not only is it a fun song (well, it might be argued that it’s about date rape, in which case it wouldn’t be fun, but Thicke is Canadian and I refuse to believe that of him), but Thicke, T.I., and Pharrell Williams, who cavort with models Emily Ratajkowski, Jessi M’Bengue, and Elle Evans, act as if the models’ nudity and their good time are related. Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines” video, meanwhile, is a goddamn party. I say that is a cynical way of gussying up a pretty bad song. Some critics fret that women are once again objectified by the he-should-know-better Timberlake, that JT himself shows no skin, that-and this is charitable-”Tunnel Vision” is a metaphor for the limited scope of the Male Gaze and is in fact Timberlake’s self-effacing commentary on his own shallowness. The overproduced ditty finds Timberlake uncertain of which overdubbed, overprocessed lyrics to mime to and, though his image is superimposed over the bodies of the women, he doesn’t interact with them at all. “Zoom Zoom,” croons Timberlake like the kid from the Mazda commercials, as a bevy of sexless, athletic nudes litter a soundstage. Justin Timberlake, the talented and affable former Mouseketeer and N’Sync frontman, the ex-boyfriend of Britney Spears and current fixture on “Saturday Night Live” and “Jimmy Fallon,” proves that nudity is not a Band-Aid for bad music in “Tunnel Vision.”