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[Annie]

https://www.nme.com/news/music/emily-ratajkowski-accuses-robin-thicke-of-groping-her-while-filming-blurred-lines-music-video-3060802

His career just keeps on sinking huh? 

Emily Ratajkowski accuses Robin Thicke of groping her while filming 'Blurred Lines' music video
3rd October 2021

Content warning: this article discusses allegations of sexual assault.

Model Emily Ratajkowski has accused Robin Thicke of groping her breasts without consent while on the set of 2013's 'Blurred Lines' music video.

As detailed in her forthcoming book, My Body, and first reported by The Sunday Times, Ratajkowski said she initially had no issue with being nude for the edited and unrated versions of the music video. However, at one point the model claims Thicke "returned to the set a little drunk to shoot just with me".

"Suddenly, out of nowhere, I felt the coolness and foreignness of a stranger's hands cupping my bare breasts from behind. I instinctively moved away, looking back at Robin Thicke," Ratajkowski wrote in the book (via Rolling Stone).

"I pushed my chin forward and shrugged, avoiding eye contact, feeling the heat of humiliation pump through my body," Ratajkowski adds. "I didn't react – not really, not like I should have."

"He smiled a goofy grin and stumbled backward, his eyes concealed behind his sunglasses. My head turned to the darkness beyond the set. [Director Diane Martel's] voice cracked as she yelled out to me, 'Are you okay?'"

Neither Thicke nor Ratajkowski has publicly shared any comments on the allegations.

Ratajkowski said she did not make the allegations public earlier because she did not want to think about it, and wanted to protect the workplace environment Martel fostered on set with the other models. It was Martel who convinced Ratajkowski – who has previously said she "wasn't into the idea at all at first" – to join the project.

"We just connected personally, she's smart, she's really culturally sensitive, and she talked to me about her ideas and how the women would be in the video," Ratajkowski wrote (via Yahoo!).

The Sunday Times also spoke with Martel, who supported the model's allegations against Thicke.

"I remember the moment that he grabbed her breasts. One in each hand. He was standing behind her as they were both in profile. I screamed in my very aggressive Brooklyn voice, 'What the fuck are you doing, that's it!! The shoot is over!'" Martel said.

Martel also claimed Thicke apologised after he allegedly groped Ratajkowski. The director says she he would not have done it "had he been sober".

My Body is due for release November 9.

In 2015, Thicke and 'Blurred Lines' collaborators Pharrell Williams and T.I. were successfully sued by Marvin Gaye's family, claiming the 2013 song copied Gaye's 1977 single 'Got To Give It Up'. An attempt to appeal the verdict failed in 2018, but cleared T.I. of charges.

[Amazing]

I believe this 100%.

He was a MESS back then.

[Annie]

Yes he already spoke on being on alcohol and drugs when recording the song..he was a trainwreck.

Robin Thicke Admits He Didn't Really Write 'Blurred Lines,' Was High in the Studio

https://time.com/3378763/robin-thicke-blurred-lines-lawsuit-pharrell-drugs/ (2014)

I was high on vicodin and alcohol when I showed up at the studio. So my recollection is when we made the song, I thought I wanted — I — I wanted to be more involved than I actually was by the time, nine months later, it became a huge hit and I wanted credit. So I started kind of convincing myself that I was a little more part of it than I was and I — because I didn't want him — I wanted some credit for this big hit. But the reality is, is that Pharrell had the beat and he wrote almost every single part of the song.
Williams said he was "in the driver's seat" for this song, but explained that sharing credit is the norm for the music industry. "You know, people are made to look like they have much more authorship in the situation than they actually do. So that's where the embellishment comes in." When asked whose words were used in the lyrics, Williams answered: "Mine."

Williams also said that it's "Robin Thicke's voice" that makes the song great: "Because it's the white man singing soulfully and we, unfortunately, in this country don't get enough — we don't get to hear that as often, so we get excited by it when the mainstream gives that a shot."

Thicke also admitted he lied to media outlets about the genesis of the song, like when he described the creative process to GQ: "Pharrell and I were in the studio and I told him that one of my favorite songs of all time was Marvin Gaye's 'Got to Give It Up.' I was like, 'Damn, we should make something like that, something with that groove.' Then he started playing a little something and we literally wrote the song in about a half hour and recorded it."

As for why, exactly, he lied, Thicke says that he "had a drug and alcohol problem for the year" and "didn't do a sober interview."

[Hatsumomo]

I believe it 

[𝖘𝖖𝖚𝖎𝖉]

I'm glad to read that Diane put him in his place and stopped the shoot.

[The Only BLACK Kalmyks]

so she stepped on the set butt naked to be one of the video hoes and was surprised when he touched her

is what im getting from this

[Amazing]

so she stepped on the set butt naked to be one of the video hoes and was surprised when he touched her

is what im getting from this

When you put it like this...

[Annie]

I guess that's why nowadays they have intimacy coaches to really make sure everyone knows the rules. She is a top model...I think it was presented to her like a fashion shoot where everyone will be treated like models and not video heauxs. 

[𝖘𝖖𝖚𝖎𝖉]

Men need to keep their hands to themselves, period.

[Annie]

Men need to keep their hands to themselves, period.

Exactly

[Freemala Harris]

And I was just thinking about how in retrospect, this song is WORSE than I thought it was

Literally the musical version of no means yes and rape culture

So its not surprising he pulled this

Done self

[RAY7]

The song is not saying "no means yes"
it's more like liberating the prudish "good girls" to be sexual if they want to 

[Plastic.]

Men need to keep their hands to themselves, period.

[Freemala Harris]

The song is not saying "no means yes"
it's more like liberating the prudish "good girls" to be sexual if they want to

Well that's definitely a way to interpret it

But a lot of discourse back in the day was about it really leaning into the no means yes rape culturey thing

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/robin-thicke-criticized-rapey-blurred-570718/

Very problematic nonetheless

[The Only BLACK Kalmyks]

I guess that's why nowadays they have intimacy coaches to really make sure everyone knows the rules. She is a top model...I think it was presented to her like a fashion shoot where everyone will be treated like models and not video heauxs.

the entire atmosphere of that video was drenched in misogyny

robin fully dressed in a suit while naked girls paraded around him in a "ditzy model" manner

but omg! he touched one of the models no one saw that coming
this aint that type ah shoot!

im sorry but