{"id":375365,"date":"2026-03-09T05:17:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T05:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/375365\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T05:17:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T05:17:16","slug":"i-didnt-get-it-at-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/375365\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I Didn\u2019t Get It at First\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

The ripple effects of \u201cBlurred Lines<\/a>\u201d still persist in music and culture today. On the surface, it\u2019s just another sleazy R&B and pop song about trying to hook up with a woman. However, the censored music video and some of the songwriting created an incredible unease, especially with some female listeners. Women knew firsthand some of the gross tactics guys try and coerce a woman to have sex with them. Gradually, the Robin Thicke, Pharrell, and T.I. song became extremely outdated in the world of increased feminist empowerment.<\/p>\n

Robin Thicke\u2019s career tanked shortly afterward, as he grappled with all the backlash. Moreover, the copyright lawsuit with Marvin Gaye\u2019s estate put him and the Neptunes producer in an incredibly uneasy situation. Amidst all of this though, Pharrell\u2019s perspective on masculinity slowly began to change.<\/p>\n

In a 2019 conversation<\/a> with GQ, Pharrell got into a deep conversation about blurring the lines of masculinity. There, he opened up about growing up in an era where misogyny was the norm and more sexually explicit content wasn\u2019t always the most thoughtful. Consequently, it made him a little bit embarrassed. But it was the \u201cBlurred Lines\u201d controversy that radically altered his perspective for good.<\/p>\n

How the \u2018Blurred Lines\u2019 Controversy Inspired Pharrell\u2019s Growth<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t get it at first. Because there were older white women who, when that song came on, they would behave in some of the most surprising ways ever. And I would be like,\u00a0\u2018Wow.\u2019\u00a0They would have me blushing. So when there started to be an issue with it, lyrically, I was, like,\u00a0\u2018What are you talking about?\u2019\u201d Pharrell admitted.\u00a0\u201cThere are women who really like the song and connect to the energy that just gets you up. And\u00a0\u2018I know you want it\u2019\u2014women sing those kinds of lyrics all the time. So it\u2019s like,\u00a0\u2018What\u2019s r*pey about that?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Then, he realized that a lot of men would use a lot of the same \u201cBlurred Lines\u201d language in order to take advantage of women. It opened up his mind to the kind of world he lived in, where these kinds of horrible things are normalized. Realizing his contribution with some of his older records, Pharrell pivoted away from that particular form of masculinity.<\/p>\n

As an example, he recalled making his smash hit \u201cHappy\u201d with Cee-Lo Green<\/a> in mind. But once he made it for himself, it made him a lot softer. <\/p>\n

\u201cBut when I do stuff for other people, that allows me to channel things for them, and so the universe set up the perfect conditions to get me to write a song like that. That made me cry. It literally made me cry,\u201d Pharrell admitted. \u201cLike, I was on the\u00a0\u2018Oprah\u2019\u00a0show for my birthday, and she showed me a video of people around the world singing that song, and that sh*t f*cked me up. Bad. I was never the same. So I don\u2019t beat on my chest. I haven\u2019t been the same since any of that music.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The ripple effects of \u201cBlurred Lines\u201d still persist in music and culture today. On the surface, it\u2019s just…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375366,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[268],"tags":[434,18,117,2873,19,17,337,10321,173053],"class_list":["post-375365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-hip-hop","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music","tag-noisey","tag-pharrell"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116197526341644555","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}