“I feel like I’ve been waiting to win a championship, just one, before I retire.” “It’s like being an athlete and finally winning a championship,” he said. That success has raised expectations for his sixth studio album, also titled “Blurred Lines” (Star Trak/Interscope Records), to be released on July 30. Thicke composed in a few hours with Pharrell Williams (who also performs in it) over a ‘70s funk beat, and it has topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart for five weeks. Thicke within days into a recognizable star and helping to propel the song up the pop chart. It turned out to be a marketing coup, transforming Mr.
The deliberately lewd video stirred up a predictable storm of publicity, both positive and negative. Thicke as he leers and sings, “I know you want it” - that critics accused him of objectifying women and reinforcing rape myths. Thicke is a bundle of contradictions: a white singer from a privileged Hollywood family who sounds as if he got his start working smoky R&B clubs a family man who married his first sweetheart but croons about sex and seduction with the moist heat of a veteran ladies’ man a songwriter with a political conscience whose video for “Blurred Lines” is so risqué - it features nearly nude models cavorting around Mr. “We still got the baby seat in here,” Mr. The boy had fallen asleep during his father’s set, and his mother, the actress Paula Patton, had taken him back to the nearby Four Seasons. Thicke climbed into the back seat of a black S.U.V., settling in next to an empty car seat that belongs to his 3-year-old son, Julian Fuego. 1 hit, after 20 years of writing romantic R&B songs that did well with black audiences, especially women, but never crossed over to pop radio.Īs the young woman left with her friends, Mr. With “Blurred Lines,” he has finally scored a No. Thicke, and as they hugged, she squealed, “Oh, my God.”
“Can I hug you?” a wide-eyed young woman asked. Thicke exhaled smoke and shook his head with a wry smile. “Is that Justin Timberlake?” a young man asked. They knew he was famous, but they still had trouble placing him. BOSTON - Robin Thicke was having a smoke behind the Colonnade Hotel here after performing his hit “Blurred Lines” at a radio promotion party when he attracted the attention of some teenagers passing by.
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