Seems this track has even been played on country music stations and has highest radio audience ever. Way to go Robin? Damn, what is it about this song?? Good luck to him trying to top that, lol!

The controversial -- and nudity-filled -- video for Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines" has attracted so much attention lately that one might assume it's behind the song's seven-week stint atop the Hot 100, an impressive reign that Billboard described this week as the longest so far in 2013.

But "Blurred Lines" isn't just inescapable online -- it's also a fixture on the airwaves.

According to a press release issued Friday by Thicke's label, Interscope Records, "Blurred Lines" has "broken the record for the highest radio audience ever recorded. As of this week, the track has reached more than 242.65 million listeners" across a number of formats, the label said.

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In a recent interview with The Times, Thicke claimed that "Blurred Lines," with a jaunty riff he described as "banjo-ish," has even racked up spins on some country stations, though Pop & Hiss has yet to hear that firsthand.

"Blurred Lines" is the title track of Thicke's sixth studio album, which hits stores next week. Read our feature on the singer here and see it in print in Sunday's Arts & Books section.

dancerella said:

Seems this track has even been played on country music stations and has highest radio audience ever. Way to go Robin? Damn, what is it about this song?? Good luck to him trying to top that, lol!

The controversial -- and nudity-filled -- video for Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines" has attracted so much attention lately that one might assume it's behind the song's seven-week stint atop the Hot 100, an impressive reign that Billboard described this week as the longest so far in 2013.

But "Blurred Lines" isn't just inescapable online -- it's also a fixture on the airwaves.

According to a press release issued Friday by Thicke's label, Interscope Records, "Blurred Lines" has "broken the record for the highest radio audience ever recorded. As of this week, the track has reached more than 242.65 million listeners" across a number of formats, the label said.

TIMELINE: Summer's must see concerts

In a recent interview with The Times, Thicke claimed that "Blurred Lines," with a jaunty riff he described as "banjo-ish," has even racked up spins on some country stations, though Pop & Hiss has yet to hear that firsthand.

"Blurred Lines" is the title track of Thicke's sixth studio album, which hits stores next week. Read our feature on the singer here and see it in print in Sunday's Arts & Books section.

The MUSIC to it...though speeded up...is "Got To Give It Up" as crafted by Marvin Gaye AND Holland-Dozier-Holland! That's what it IS!!!

HatrinaHaterwitz said:

dancerella said:

Seems this track has even been played on country music stations and has highest radio audience ever. Way to go Robin? Damn, what is it about this song?? Good luck to him trying to top that, lol!

The controversial -- and nudity-filled -- video for Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines" has attracted so much attention lately that one might assume it's behind the song's seven-week stint atop the Hot 100, an impressive reign that Billboard described this week as the longest so far in 2013.

But "Blurred Lines" isn't just inescapable online -- it's also a fixture on the airwaves.

According to a press release issued Friday by Thicke's label, Interscope Records, "Blurred Lines" has "broken the record for the highest radio audience ever recorded. As of this week, the track has reached more than 242.65 million listeners" across a number of formats, the label said.

TIMELINE: Summer's must see concerts

In a recent interview with The Times, Thicke claimed that "Blurred Lines," with a jaunty riff he described as "banjo-ish," has even racked up spins on some country stations, though Pop & Hiss has yet to hear that firsthand.

"Blurred Lines" is the title track of Thicke's sixth studio album, which hits stores next week. Read our feature on the singer here and see it in print in Sunday's Arts & Books section.

The MUSIC to it...though speeded up...is "Got To Give It Up" as crafted by Marvin Gaye AND Holland-Dozier-Holland! That's what it IS!!!

This has to be the smartest move of his career.

^ Don't think so? Play the song for Motown fans that have no idea who the fuck Robin Thicke, TI or Pharrell are and dare them to "Name That Music"!

this song is unstoppable! Robin's career is going to the next level.

dancerella said:

HatrinaHaterwitz said:

The MUSIC to it...though speeded up...is "Got To Give It Up" as crafted by Marvin Gaye AND Holland-Dozier-Holland! That's what it IS!!!

This has to be the smartest move of his career.

Hell...fuck...yeah!!!!

but I can't see why country music stations would play this song there's nothing "country" about it

SoulAlive said:

but I can't see why country music stations would play this song there's nothing "country" about it

That would be the...Blurred Lines!

He hijacked Marvin GAye's classic "Got To Give It Up".......

and hijacked it big time

and I hear some interpolation of Prince's classic Kiss.....

this guy will mess around and get a grammy off of this where Marvin had to wait over 20 years to win one at the very end of this career.

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Now I understand why he walked away from The Real Husbands of Hollywood.

Go Robin, Go make that Paper. It's about time you are recongized from the media how talented you are, I have been following Robin since he had that long flowing hair. He was in love with Paula then and still shows his heart is still beating for her today.

Robin, you better not forget your roots and who loved you from the beginning..

Scorp said:

He hijacked Marvin GAye's classic "Got To Give It Up".......

and hijacked it big time

and I hear some interpolation of Prince's classic Kiss.....

this guy will mess around and get a grammy off of this where Marvin had to wait over 20 years to win one at the very end of this career.

[Edited 7/27/13 19:32pm]

I'm more upset about the award Marvin EARNED for that song that he didn't live to see . Play it any where and people from all walks of life will stop doing whatever it is they may be doing and dance to it.

But yeah, Robin will most likely capitalize that in every way imaginable...big time.

HatrinaHaterwitz said:

Scorp said:

He hijacked Marvin GAye's classic "Got To Give It Up".......

and hijacked it big time

and I hear some interpolation of Prince's classic Kiss.....

this guy will mess around and get a grammy off of this where Marvin had to wait over 20 years to win one at the very end of this career.

[Edited 7/27/13 19:32pm]

I'm more upset about the award Marvin EARNED for that song that he didn't live to see . Play it any where and people from all walks of life will stop doing whatever it is they may be doing and dance to it.

But yeah, Robin will most likely capitalize that in every way imaginable...big time.

u are right, absolutely

With 'Blurred Lines,' Robin Thicke hits the big time, finally

After a career in R&B, show business veteran Robin Thicke is finally on the pop radar. A Jimmy Kimmel parody and covers by hipster acts have followed.

By Mikael Wood (L.A. Times)

7:00 AM PDT, July 26, 2013

Clutching a gold microphone as shiny as his gold watch, Robin Thicke sauntered into a recording studio in Playa Vista on a recent afternoon like he owned the place.

The R&B singer known for his romantic ballads was taping a brief live performance for YouTube, and as he passed through the audience on his way to a small stage, he paused to put his arm around one female fan, who seemed as though she might crumple under the weight of his attention.

Then Thicke shimmied on, taking his place in front of his band as it vamped on the funk riff from his hit "Blurred Lines," in which he poses one of this summer's great rhetorical questions: "What rhymes with 'Hug me'?"

Afterward, he stood outside the studio smoking a cigarette, beads of sweat glistening on his forehead. "That was fun," he said.

It was unlikely too. Slick with new-media panache, Thicke's performance was one you might expect from a buzzed-about rookie running on borrowed bravado. At 36, though, this show-business veteran is well past his hot-shot years, and "Blurred Lines" is far from his first crack at the charts.

Nonetheless, the song's runaway success could make a young pop idol jealous. A jumpy disco jam featuring Pharrell Williams and rapper T.I., it just spent a seventh week at No. 1 on Billboard's Hot 100, while the song's willfully provocative music video has been viewed online well over 100 million times.

Last month, Thicke's performance of "Blurred Lines" was a widely agreed-upon highlight of the BET Awards. And the tune has even earned its own parody from Jimmy Kimmel, another part of an enviable set-up for the singer's sixth studio album, also titled "Blurred Lines" and due in stores Tuesday.

It's just one of those songs that loosens people up," said Williams, who produced and co-wrote "Blurred Lines." "With everybody so anxious about everything going on in the world, people need something to help them be happy again."

"Blurred Lines" isn't the only breezy throwback track making a big impact this year. Emmanuel Coquia, music director at the L.A. hip-hop radio station Power 106, compared the song to Daft Punk's "Get Lucky" (which also features Williams), Bruno Mars' "Treasure" and Justin Timberlake's "Take Back the Night"; all exude a sense of fatigue with the serrated synths and sledgehammer beats favored by Lady Gaga and her ilk. "That retro sound is really hot right now," Coquia said.

Yet for Thicke, "Blurred Lines" is more singular: the biggest pop hit, by far, in a long career previously confined to R&B crowds.

"It used to be kind of a centered audience that knew me," he said at a restaurant near his home in West Hollywood a few weeks after the YouTube taping. "But now it's young girls, it's old people, it's people from India and Germany. It's a whole other level, which is very exciting, I can't deny it." As if on cue, several twentysomething women from a nearby table approached Thicke and asked, between excited giggles, whether he'd mind posing for a photograph.

"I look at it like an actor," he continued after returning to his seat. "You could be a great actor and be in good films for 10 or 20 years. But then you're Jeff Bridges and you get 'Crazy Heart,' and all of a sudden everyone says, 'This guy's good — we like this guy!'"

He comes by the acting metaphor honestly. The son of "Growing Pains" star Alan Thicke and singer-actress Gloria Loring, Robin Thicke grew up surrounded by powerful Hollywood types, which is one reason expectations ran high for his ambitious, eclectic 2003 debut, "A Beautiful World." (Another reason was the songwriting work he'd already done by that point for stars such as Brandy, Christina Aguilera and Jordan Knight of New Kids on the Block.)

But "A Beautiful World" tanked, leading Thicke to reinvent himself as a grown-up balladeer. The approach yielded a string of modest hits — including "Lost Without U," a bossa nova-style love song he wrote for his wife, actress Paula Patton — and earned him a reputation among rappers such as Rick Ross and Lil Wayne, who enlisted Thicke to soften hip-hop tracks with his breathy lover-man vocals. Eventually, though, that softness became a liability: "'Lost Without U' played on the Wave," he said with a laugh, referring to the easy-listening L.A. radio station. "Here I am thinking I'm some kind of edgy artist, and now I'm playing on elevators."

For his new album, Thicke solicited help not just from Williams (who'd worked with Thicke previously) but also from other Top 40 rainmakers such as Timbaland, Dr. Luke and will.i.am. "I'd be lying to myself if, going into this record, I said I didn't want to have a hit," Thicke acknowledged. But if those producers' trademarks are readily apparent in sleek, club-friendly tracks such as "Take It Easy on Me" and the grinding "Give It 2 U" (with a guest rap by Kendrick Lamar), the album as a whole actually feels more defined by Thicke's personality — his idiosyncratic mix of sexy assurance and brainy quirk — than anything since his debut.

In one lightweight disco-soul tune, "Ain't No Hat 4 That," he tosses off the words "preposterous" and "obstreperous," an improbable rhyme he credits to his father. "My dad, he'll do that sometimes," Robin Thicke said, slipping into a pitch-perfect impression of Alan Thicke. "'If you're doing candy references, how about 'marzipan'?"

Jimmy Iovine, the Interscope Records chairman who's been working with Thicke since the latter's days as a songwriter, said the song "Blurred Lines" demonstrates that Thicke has "finally cracked the code" for acceptance on the radio. "But that doesn't mean he cracked the code on being great," Iovine added. "Robin was always great."

Despite (or perhaps because of) the song's omnipresence — even hipster rock acts such as Vampire Weekend and Queens of the Stone Age have covered it — "Blurred Lines" has its detractors, some of whom have taken issue with the music video, in which Thicke, Williams and T.I., all fully clothed, dance with a number of topless models. (The uncensored version of the video was banned for a spell by YouTube, which Thicke's manager, Jordan Feldstein, said "was the best thing that could've happened to us.")

Critics have said that the song and video — in which Thicke sings, "I know you want it" — are degrading and that they shore up offensive notions about women who say "no" but supposedly mean "yes."

Thicke said the criticism struck him as an attempt by certain writers to "get people to come onto their blogs." But he also seemed genuinely troubled by the idea that his song could be interpreted that way. "I'm making her a full-blown equal," he said of the lyrics to "Blurred Lines": "'You're an animal, I'm an animal.'" And in an interview with "Access Hollywood" after the YouTube shoot, he was quick to point out that Patton loves the video and that it was directed by a woman, Diane Martel.

Controversy aside, Thicke knows the attention paid "Blurred Lines" has extended his stay in the music business at a moment when that stay might otherwise have been drawing to a close.

"I want to get right back to making another record and use [the hit song] as a platform to prove this wasn't a fluke," he said. Not that the singer, who's set to tour the U.S. next spring, has figured out how to do that, exactly. "There's no math to a great record — it just happens," he said. "If we knew the math, we'd do it every time."

tracklist for the Target Deluxe Edition ($13.99)......

1. Blurred Lines
2. Take It Easy On Me
3. Ooo La La
4. Ain't No Hat 4 That
5. Get In My Way
6. Give It 2 U
7. Feel Good
8. Go Stupid 4 U
9. 4 The Rest of My Life
10. Top Of The World
11. The Good Life
12. Pressure
13. Put Your Lovin On Me
14. Give It 2 U (Remix)
15. Blurred Lines (Bee's Knees Remix)(Target Exclusive)
16. 4 The Rest of My Life (Twice As Nice Remix)(Target Exclusive)

HatrinaHaterwitz said:

dancerella said:

Seems this track has even been played on country music stations and has highest radio audience ever. Way to go Robin? Damn, what is it about this song?? Good luck to him trying to top that, lol!

The controversial -- and nudity-filled -- video for Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines" has attracted so much attention lately that one might assume it's behind the song's seven-week stint atop the Hot 100, an impressive reign that Billboard described this week as the longest so far in 2013.

But "Blurred Lines" isn't just inescapable online -- it's also a fixture on the airwaves.

According to a press release issued Friday by Thicke's label, Interscope Records, "Blurred Lines" has "broken the record for the highest radio audience ever recorded. As of this week, the track has reached more than 242.65 million listeners" across a number of formats, the label said.

TIMELINE: Summer's must see concerts

In a recent interview with The Times, Thicke claimed that "Blurred Lines," with a jaunty riff he described as "banjo-ish," has even racked up spins on some country stations, though Pop & Hiss has yet to hear that firsthand.

"Blurred Lines" is the title track of Thicke's sixth studio album, which hits stores next week. Read our feature on the singer here and see it in print in Sunday's Arts & Books section.

The MUSIC to it...though speeded up...is "Got To Give It Up" as crafted by Marvin Gaye AND Holland-Dozier-Holland! That's what it IS!!!

Big thanks for posting this, never heard it, but what an amazing song "Got to give it up" is, I need to listen more to Marvin gaye.

Too bad his album is having VERY negative reviews from music critics...

RosesRred said:

Now I understand why he walked away from The Real Husbands of Hollywood.

Go Robin, Go make that Paper. It's about time you are recongized from the media how talented you are, I have been following Robin since he had that long flowing hair. He was in love with Paula then and still shows his heart is still beating for her today.

Robin, you better not forget your roots and who loved you from the beginning..

I didn't realize he'd left the show but yes, that's another smart move. He's at the height of his career right now and that show would just make him look like a joke.

Shawy89 said:

Too bad his album is having VERY negative reviews from music critics...

Is it really? Whoa I guess he better enjoy the success from the single Blurred lines then.

By the way, I know that the song is heavily sampled from Marvin Gaye but do I also detect a liitle MJ too? That "whoo" that you hear throughout the track sounds like MJ to me. Maybe "Don't stop til you get enough"?

Negative reviews from critics don't mean a thing.This album is gonna be huge.

Shawy89 said:

Too bad his album is having VERY negative reviews from music critics...

I love Robin's voice. I just listened to the samples of the album on I-tunes and nothing is really moving me to want to buy it. It's been that way with all of his albums.

dancerella said:

"what rhymes with 'hug me'?" love it

alphastreet said:

dancerella said:

Is it really? Whoa I guess he better enjoy the success from the single Blurred lines then.

By the way, I know that the song is heavily sampled from Marvin Gaye but do I also detect a liitle MJ too? That "whoo" that you hear throughout the track sounds like MJ to me. Maybe "Don't stop til you get enough"?

Yes that is mj, I hope he got credited Mj finally got on the country charts, in death!!!! Robin thicke has a big...Discography [Edited 7/28/13 22:09pm]

Well, I'll be damned! I knew that was MJ! Wow, good for him. He made the country charts at last.

Robin Thicke is probably gonna sweep at the Grammy's next year. I think it will be a throw down between him and Timberlake! They're gonna take it all.

thicke has a big...Discography

SoulAlive said:

"what rhymes with 'hug me'?" love it

That line cracks me up!