{"id":491228,"date":"2019-10-14T09:48:58","date_gmt":"2019-10-14T15:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=898544"},"modified":"2019-10-14T09:48:58","modified_gmt":"2019-10-14T15:48:58","slug":"pharrell-says-blurred-lines-controversy-educated-him-about-sexism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/pharrell-says-blurred-lines-controversy-educated-him-about-sexism\/","title":{"rendered":"Pharrell Says \u2018Blurred Lines\u2019 Controversy Educated Him About Sexism"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pharrell<\/a> looks back at one of his biggest hits, \u201cBlurred Lines,\u201d with much more clarity these days. In GQ<\/em>\u2018s New Masculinity issue<\/a>, released on Monday, the artist-producer discussed the legacy of that song and how time has shifted his perception of it.<\/p>\n

The 2013 single, which Pharrell recorded with Robin Thicke<\/a> and T.I.<\/a>, almost immediately drew controversy for its predatory-sounding lyrics (\u201cYou\u2019re a good girl\/I know you want it\u201d) and sexually explicit video \u2014 and it\u2019s only aged poorly in the wake of the Me Too movement.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was also born in a different era, where the rules of the matrix at that time allowed a lot of things that would never fly today,\u201d Pharrell told GQ<\/em>, speaking generally of his career.\u201dAdvertisements that objectify women. Song content. Some of my old songs, I would never write or sing today. I get embarrassed by some of that stuff. It just took a lot of time and growth to get to that place.\u201d<\/p>\n

He went on to say that \u201cBlurred Lines\u201d was the moment that his perspective began to shift. \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, wow.<\/em> They would have me blushing. So when there started to be an issue with it, lyrically, I was, like, What are you talking about?<\/em> There are women who really like the song and connect to the energy that just gets you up. And I know you want it <\/em>\u2014 women sing those kinds of lyrics all the time. So it\u2019s like, What\u2019s rapey about that?<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

He continued, \u201cAnd then I realized that there are men who use that same language when taking advantage of a woman, and it doesn\u2019t matter that that\u2019s not my behavior. Or the way I think about things. It just matters how it affects women. And I was like, Got it. I get it. Cool.<\/em> My mind opened up to what was actually being said in the song and how it could make someone feel. Even though it wasn\u2019t the majority, it didn\u2019t matter. I cared what they were feeling too. I realized that we live in a chauvinist culture in our country. Hadn\u2019t realized that. Didn\u2019t realize that some of my songs catered to that. So that blew my mind.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Pharrell looks back at one of his biggest hits, \u201cBlurred Lines,\u201d with much more clarity these days. In GQ\u2018s New Masculinity issue, released on Monday, the artist-producer discussed the legacy of that song and how time has shifted his perception of it. The 2013 single, which Pharrell recorded with Robin Thicke and T.I., almost immediately […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-491228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-22 00:53:47","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}