[ SECRET POST #2452 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2452 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[Giles Coren and Sue Perkins, The Supersizers Eat… The Eighties]


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03.
[Jeff Davis/Teen Wolf]


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04.
[Django Unchained]


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05.
[Valiant Hearts: The Great War]


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06.
[Child of Light]

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07.
[Jurassic Park]


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08.
[Hate Plus]


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09.
[The Three Investigators]


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10.
[Charlie Hunnam]


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 011 secrets from Secret Submission Post #350.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

Re: Robin Thicke

[(Anonymous)]

Well, those might have been her intentions, but the finished product didn't exactly live up to her claims. It didn't work for me personally, and it didn't work for a lot of other viewers -- the explicit version, in particular, is almost embarrassingly lacking in taste.

With these lyrics, there could have been ways to make an empowering video that embraced this supposed spirit of fun silliness without coming off extremely unbalanced in portraying the men and women involved, but that didn't happen here. Nudity has been done in music videos many times before, and done tastefully. Here, the female models' bodies couldn't have been more objectified if they had been replaced with actual dancing dolls. Who would watch this and think that they are the ones being empowered, as opposed to the dapper sharp-dressed men they're fawning all over?

Also, why should we let Thicke off the hook just because the idea came from another person? Are we to believe he had no creative input whatsoever in his own music video? (And if so, what kind of an artist is he?) In that very article you linked, it is mentioned that he gave a separate interview claiming that the idea for the video was to be "derogatory toward women". Even the director is on record WTF-ing about that nutbar comment. He also gave another interview claiming that the video couldn't possibly be sexist because, why, all the men in it are happily married. Talk about missing the point on a cosmic level.