Thicke: Slicke or Dicke?
― ttyih boi (crüt), Thursday, 13 June 2013 20:02 (eleven years ago) link
as great as "blurred lines" i wonder if he'd have pulled this off if he stuck with the og haircut and moniker
― da croupier, Thursday, 13 June 2013 20:05 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, wtf this guy had a #1 hit? this ain't the real life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7K7orMOHqY
― The Reverend, Thursday, 13 June 2013 20:58 (eleven years ago) link
Cisco Adler take notes.
― da croupier, Thursday, 13 June 2013 21:22 (eleven years ago) link
this being no. 1 is so fucking cynical. I mean this has basically been the model for music videos since forever, but still, how long until someone re-releases their video as straight-up porn and zooms to the top of the charts
― katherine, Thursday, 13 June 2013 21:37 (eleven years ago) link
he already had a porn star name so why not
― ttyih boi (crüt), Thursday, 13 June 2013 21:38 (eleven years ago) link
tbf the video came out and was taken down in march. his us chart rise really came after it was performed on the voice
― da croupier, Thursday, 13 June 2013 21:42 (eleven years ago) link
further "thicke"-era trivia: dude co-wrote Jordan Knight's "Give It To You" with Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis
― da croupier, Thursday, 13 June 2013 22:05 (eleven years ago) link
cool
― Spottie_Ottie_Dope, Thursday, 13 June 2013 22:06 (eleven years ago) link
He's really good at dumbfounding me, which I guess is pretty respectable.
― Helltime Producto (Pavlik), Thursday, November 21, 2002 2:17 PM Bookmark
I have to isolate this sentence from a 2002 post because it pretty much sums up his whole career.
― The Reverend, Thursday, 13 June 2013 22:24 (eleven years ago) link
"hey, you co-wrote that Jordan Knight hit? Good for you!"
"Yeah, my debut album's coming out! It's called CHERRY BLUE SKIES"
"i see! well...you gonna cut your hair?"
"no! and call me THICKE!"
"..."
― da croupier, Thursday, 13 June 2013 22:30 (eleven years ago) link
hilarious that one of my favorite fake timbaland songs is written by that team. damn
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 13 June 2013 22:44 (eleven years ago) link
...in what way?
― time considered as a helix of semi-precious owns (zvookster), Thursday, June 13, 2013 12:31 AM (18 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yeah, what?
― The Reverend, Thursday, June 13, 2013 2:43 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark
eh something about the groove idk
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 13 June 2013 22:47 (eleven years ago) link
i love the original video for this so much but it sucks they put out the "unrated version"
kinda ruined the pure wtf joy of the original
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 13 June 2013 22:48 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah absolutely. It'd be like if the album version didn't say "what rhymes with 'hug me'"
― some dude, Thursday, 13 June 2013 22:51 (eleven years ago) link
i haven't seen the "unrated" version, but the difference is just that they're topless right? i mean, the models are already half-dressed in the other video, so it seems kind of arbitrary to act like they ruined some innocent fun by being piggish
― da croupier, Thursday, 13 June 2013 23:07 (eleven years ago) link
"why'd they have to go an ruin a delightful swimsuit issue by going full playboy"
― da croupier, Thursday, 13 June 2013 23:08 (eleven years ago) link
It's still on Vevo, you can look and see for yourself if it doesn't substantially lose its charm
― some dude, Thursday, 13 June 2013 23:10 (eleven years ago) link
the unrated version has less t.i. dancing which is enough to condemn it
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 13 June 2013 23:16 (eleven years ago) link
xpost i'm sure it does. my point is that the video was ALREADY a bunch of leering dudes in suits surrounded by half-naked women.
― da croupier, Thursday, 13 June 2013 23:17 (eleven years ago) link
i dunno the thing i liked about the video is that it sort of felt like a miracle, like it came out way better than the concept would leave you to believe. there's something accidentally great about it, i think.
the video the unrated version feels crass to me not because there's boobs but because it feels overthought
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 13 June 2013 23:17 (eleven years ago) link
wish "Love After War" had been the pop hit that Thicke's "Got To Get It Up Pt. 23" is.
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 13 June 2013 23:18 (eleven years ago) link
if two versions were "one where everybody's in classy nightwear" and "one where the ladies are half-dressed" we'd probably be saying the same thing. what classy ilxor dude is going to say "i prefer the more objectifying one".
― da croupier, Thursday, 13 June 2013 23:19 (eleven years ago) link
i haven't heard "love after war" but i don't begrudge the ongoing Got To Give It Up franchise in fact it should get a montage at the grammys
― da croupier, Thursday, 13 June 2013 23:22 (eleven years ago) link
"love after war" is pretty good as is that entire album but it's no "blurred lines"
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 13 June 2013 23:23 (eleven years ago) link
waterface!
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 13 June 2013 23:27 (eleven years ago) link
if you appreciate something specifically for how it dances on the line between tacky and not, then yeah if a 2.0 version drops a month later that leaps over the line it's a buzzkill. not that hard to understand.
― some dude, Thursday, 13 June 2013 23:30 (eleven years ago) link
i understand it, i just also find it funny to have guys bemoan the fact that someone made a piggish video more piggish
― da croupier, Thursday, 13 June 2013 23:35 (eleven years ago) link
There's levels to this shit.
― Shock G Mo Collier (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Thursday, 13 June 2013 23:37 (eleven years ago) link
but hey, how better to illustrate the concept of blurred lines
― da croupier, Thursday, 13 June 2013 23:37 (eleven years ago) link
― da croupier, Thursday, 13 June 2013
just go watch both videos before opening your fat gob, omfg.
since they're mostly collecting moments of unrehearsed unchoreographed clowning, jagger moves and interaction, one is gonna be different to the other.
i dunno the thing i liked about the video is that it sort of felt like a miracle, like it came out way better than the concept would leave you to believe. there's something accidentally great about it, i think....― J0rdan S
otm
― time considered as a helix of semi-precious owns (zvookster), Thursday, 13 June 2013 23:38 (eleven years ago) link
the accidental brilliance of a star trak boner party
― da croupier, Thursday, 13 June 2013 23:42 (eleven years ago) link
it's fine if u don't like the rated video, ur just rong abt why it can be preferred to the unrated
― time considered as a helix of semi-precious owns (zvookster), Thursday, 13 June 2013 23:46 (eleven years ago) link
i like it fine! i just was mocking sentiments like "kinda ruined the pure wtf joy of the original" and "It'd be like if the album version didn't say "what rhymes with 'hug me'", which suggested dudes didn't realize they were already enjoying some skeevy shit
― da croupier, Thursday, 13 June 2013 23:49 (eleven years ago) link
the video was annoying rated and is annoying unrated. the nakedness is a red herring because even in the first video the women are still on that creepy dead-eyed cat marnell shit. also, obnoxious hashtags (when did people decide they were okay with those? why does everyone keep the hashtag in "Beautiful" when writing *NSYNC or Wal*Mart would violate every style rule extant?) also, I am not convinced robin thicke is as endowed as he boasts.
― katherine, Thursday, 13 June 2013 23:50 (eleven years ago) link
robin thine
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 13 June 2013 23:51 (eleven years ago) link
as far as terry richardson tributes featuring a dude doing a bill cosby tribute go "blurred lines" is definitely top tier
― da croupier, Thursday, 13 June 2013 23:53 (eleven years ago) link
fun fact (according to wikipedia): director diane martel also did the choreography for the "Shiny happy people" video
― da croupier, Thursday, 13 June 2013 23:54 (eleven years ago) link
Shiny happy thicke people
― My Beautiful Dark Twisted Laundrette (Eazy), Thursday, 13 June 2013 23:56 (eleven years ago) link
does the unrated version still feature the remy martin bottle?
― da croupier, Thursday, 13 June 2013 23:58 (eleven years ago) link
the women are still on that creepy dead-eyed cat marnell shit
disagree - i think they're affecting a form of model cool that makes them mostly indifferent or ambivalent towards the men, which has the effect of undermining their don juan pretentions and making them ridiculous.
― time considered as a helix of semi-precious owns (zvookster), Friday, 14 June 2013 00:43 (eleven years ago) link
Fawning over men in whatever state of undress is not ambivalence.
― katherine, Friday, 14 June 2013 01:36 (eleven years ago) link
yeah i guess there is more fawning and less cool indifference than i remembered. still think "creepy, dead-eyed" is inaccurate tho.
― time considered as a helix of semi-precious owns (zvookster), Friday, 14 June 2013 03:15 (eleven years ago) link
Just watched the video (and just heard this jam of the summer) for the first time. It works because they're all clearly having fun. Much more deadpan than dead-eyed. Everyone in that video has charm.
Prince must be slapping his forehead, the way he prolly did with "Poison" before writing "Gett Off."
― lols lane (Eazy), Friday, 14 June 2013 03:21 (eleven years ago) link
omg i didn't know he co-wrote "give it to you". amazing.
― dyl, Friday, 14 June 2013 05:33 (eleven years ago) link
j0rdan otm on the difference between the original and unrated videos
what makes the original charming is that the set-up is kind of like behind-the-scenes on a fashion shoot, the off-camera goofing around, having fun with the props etc - there's an awareness of how ridiculous and yes sexist it all is, but there's also chemistry between the models and the dudes - and the models are def doing more than either affecting dead-eyedness or fawning, though there's a bit of both, there's interaction and goofy little facial expressions etc. the unrated version loses a lot of that. and yeah the power imbalance that the nudity introduces makes it...not great. (couldn't u even take your shirt off tip/robin? it actually makes the dudes look less idk manly/brave/whatever to not change anything for this ~special~ version of the video)
― lex pretend, Friday, 14 June 2013 08:53 (eleven years ago) link
Unrated version has better framing. Original has lots of shots that feel cropped.
― lols lane (Eazy), Friday, 14 June 2013 14:49 (eleven years ago) link
the "orig" is the nude version; thicke claims he was the one to say uhh dudes we should probably have a clean version too, for whatever that is worth
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 14 June 2013 15:24 (eleven years ago) link
Ever the gentleman
― Shock G Mo Collier (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Friday, 14 June 2013 15:26 (eleven years ago) link
and yeah the power imbalance that the nudity introduces makes it...not great
yeah see when guys suggest toplessness introduces a power imbalance to a terry richardson style photo shoot involving famous men in tuxes and anonymous women in hot pants, i really can't help but tease
― da croupier, Friday, 14 June 2013 15:29 (eleven years ago) link