Review: ‘Blurred Lines’ More Flirty than ‘Rapey’

Tuesday, 30 July 2013 | by Pat's Picks

Even though Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines” is everywhere this summer, the album is only being released this week.  Jim Farber takes on the criticism that the song has received recently in today’s New York Daily News. He says instead of “kind of rapey” as the song has been called for the lyric that goes “I know you want it,” the song is “kinda flirty — especially since the lyrics make clear the woman in question grabbed Thicke with gusto well before he offered his own, rather warmly delivered sexual comeback.”