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Diane Martel, the veteran video director who was behind the camera for this one, defended it as a playful tease meant to stir up talk and, most importantly, to sell virtual records.

It seems no more offensive than all the other videos that utilize attractive women as accessory objects for the male subjects, or maybe I’ve just become jaded in the years since I was scandalized forever by Warrant’s video for “Cherry Pie.” “Blurred Lines” feels like a flip take on an overdone music video trope. “Blurred Lines” has generated controversy, with some calling it exploitative. To make things even more confusing, Justin is veering from his all-Timbaland diet and working with the Neptunes again for 20/20‘s second installment.

“Blurred Lines,” which Thicke made with the Neptunes, sounds like the kind of obvious dance-floor filler some people might have wanted from Justin’s first single instead of “Suit & Tie.” Indeed, the Thicke songs with the Neptunes do sound a bit like JT outtakes (rather than the other way around), just like the songs Timberlake did with the Neptunes for his first album sounded like Michael Jackson outtakes, since they had been written as prospects for MJ’s comeback album Invincible. The videos also, inevitably, prompted more discussion about the similarity between the blue-eyed soul sound and pompadoured looks of the two R&B singers, harking back to when “Suit & Tie” first came out and #Thicke started trending on Twitter. “Blurred Lines” has a lot of goofy prop comedy that sort of desexualizes female models Elle Evans, Emily Ratajkowski, and Jessi M’Bengue’s nakedness, while “Tunnel Vision” is a more self-consciously artsy take, featuring a clothed Justin intercut with female dancers serving as canvases for projections of Timberlake’s face. Justin Timberlake dropped the video for “Tunnel Vision,” the third single off his 20/20 Experience, the other day, prompting many viewers to point out the major similarity it shares with Robin Thicke’s blockbuster “Blurred Lines” video: Boobs! Several of them.īoth “Blurred Lines” and “Tunnel Vision” feature beautiful nude women in the role of background dancers.

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