Dissect DJs - Robin Thicke ft. Pharrell and T.I. - Blurred Lines

Episode Date: March 5, 2021

We take it back to 2013 to dissect one of the all time party jams and iconic music videos when the unique collaborative trio of Robin Thicke, Pharrell Williams and T.I. joined forces to create the classic "Blurred Lines". Listen as we try to figure out what exactly these blurred lines could be? Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Everybody get up. DG.J. Diceg D.J. Dicek Dijs. Oh, once again, it is time for the Dittal, diddle, didla, didle Dicek Dijs. And it's my boy, DJ Castizi. What up, Steeze?

And it's my boy, DJ Jag. And, hey, y'all, remember 2013? Who remembers 2000? I remember that shit, kind of. This song right here is 2013. It's pretty much like this. and get lucky by daft punk and for real the two tracks of that year. Ferrell was on both of them.

Talk about Kingsman year right there. Wasn't happy right around that time as well? That was 2014. The next year, yeah. For real, had a good nice little run. He was getting it, yeah. So we not only decided to throw on the track here,

but we decided to also get the video in the mix because I feel like this is one of those songs that is synonymous with the video. Although we've had a couple of those. in the past, I made sure to this time actually show Justino the video beforehand because every time I've assumed that he knows the iconic video

he comes at me with, I don't watch videos. I don't watch videos. I don't watch videos. Although I had seen glimpses of this one. So we decided to actually check it out. Make sure we actually just fully watched it beforehand. Beginning to end, watch the whole thing. We watched the... Not true because we started to watch it and he was like

yeah, I heard there was a more uncensored version of this where they're all running around naked. We watched three, four... We watched half and then we went back. Then we watched the whole version of the uncensored. And in my opinion, there's just much better acting. And the level of sound quality in the singers is much better in the... You hear it.

The uncensored. Yeah, you can... Do I... Am I misunderstood there or do you agree? What's incredible is shot for shot, it feels like it's the exact same video. It just... They somehow did the exact same thing where everybody's naked. Well, the guys aren't naked.

which we appreciate. The girls are just all completely naked. I've got to be honest, it's a little bit much. It's a bit like, I don't know what's happening, but I like it,

but I don't want to say I like it because it's a little bit PC and in the world of nowadays. But then it's like, but they're the only ones naked. Why is the guy swinging their shit around? Not that I want to see that, but like you would think

they get a little couple helicopters going around and something, you know. I was cool with the amount of nudity that they had. Yeah. I didn't need any helicopter action. But anyways, this is the legendary

Robin Thick, Farrell, and T.I. Jam. Blurred lines from 2013. We all remember this song, taken over that entire year. And let's go ahead and get into the lyrics. Everybody get up. Everybody get up. Hey, hey, hey.

When we play the first verse here? Hey, hey, hey. We just did, didn't we? No, we never got into it. All right. Let's get into it. Let's hear it now. Right, Robin Thick just came in here,

coming smooth. What did he say real quick, Steve? So I believe it starts with Is that rubbing thick or for real? They both go that high octave range. You're right. I don't know. One of those two It says rubbing thick, but it feels like that first part is actually For real. He says, if you can't what I'm trying to say?

True. And then it's like, hey girl, come here. If you can't read from the same page, maybe I'm going deaf. Maybe I'm going blind. Maybe I'm out of my mind. Hey! Okay, so what's happening? Okay, so right away, I got to say, from the beginning, I've never really understand what the blurred lines is.

So we should go in with a mission of trying to figure out. Let's detect what the blurred lines is. You mean, not detect, but dissect? Dysect. Because we are the dissent. E.J. Diggins. Dix.

Dix. All. If you can't hear what I'm trying to say, you can't read from the same page, maybe I'm going deaf, maybe I'm going blind, maybe I'm out of my mind. So right now there's just a disconnect. There's like, hey, there's no communication happening right here at all. You can't hear me. We're not reading from the same page. Maybe it's because I'm deaf.

Maybe it's because I can't see anymore because I'm blind. Maybe I'm just out of my mind. So a question for you. I'm going to ask us a couple times while we're going through this. What in that line constituted naked women? Because, for real, Robin Thick, and T.I. like some naked women. That's it. There's no thing in the lines that constitutes a reason. It turns out a lot of other people like seeing that, too.

Did you see the girls in the video? Yeah. Brunette girl. What was her story? Where did she go? Why have I never seen her again? Trotting around naked any other videos. Yeah. You know, that seemed like it was one of those videos that they might have just, that was their career and they could always just show, hey, I was in the blurred line videos. question is, did they arrive with that understanding?

Or did they shoot the whole video? And then somebody was like, hey, you know what? You should just try to do the whole thing again. That would be a question. I would love to be the fly on the wall in that one. Maybe let's just do it again. But this time, like, maybe just be naked. Yeah.

And they're just like, all three of them were like, if you do it, I'll do it. And they were just on it crack. No, I think the video was initially like that's what they were supposed to do. They had that whole plan. And then do you think the original thing? was like we're going to do it naked over there. Like we should do a cloth version

so that we can get play on MTV and everywhere else that's going to play it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It could have been that way. I don't know. We should do research on that shit sometimes.

Anyways, then it goes to the pre-chorus, Robin Thick. Yeah, hit that. Okay, wait, did we already play it? No, but go ahead. We'll play it after you say it. Okay, now we was closed. Try to domesticate you.

But you're an animal, baby, it's in your nature. Miao. There's a meow right there, according to the A random meow, okay. Okay. Just let me liberate you.

Don't need no takers. Hey, hey, hey. That man is not your maker. And that's why I'm going to take a... And then it goes right to parentheses. Everybody gets up. What's he going to take her? It just cuts off right there?

I mean, I think it's more of that he's going to take a... Yeah, we're fill in the blank, I guess. It's a fill in the blank one. It's one of those filling blank times. You know what? You know what that line? You know what the problem of that line is? It's blurred.

Son bitch. Okay, now he was close. Try to domestic. Just let me leave. You know, there's one thing about this song I've got to bring up as we're going through the lyrics and everything is this song apparently was sued by the Marvin Gay community or whoever is part of Marvin Gay's. It says it's written by Marvin Gaye. T.I. and Robin Thick. Yeah.

I mean, they say that Marvin Gay's got to give it up. Which is weird because Marvin Gay was killed in, like, 1982. by his father, which is very deep story. Very horrible story. But this song is apparently the same beat, same rhythm, same chord, same tune apparently as Got to Give It Up by Marvin Gay. Now, Cassidy, if you can play a main segment of that song for us real quick, go ahead and hit that for us.

Oh, this song? Yeah. All right. And Mr. Blackline. I know this song. Yeah. I mean, there is a similar. I think it's kind of got to.

similar drum beat, but to suggest, especially after the fact that we just did Pitbull Day, to suggest that he straight jacked this song is ludicrous. Ludac. There's no similar words. Lula. Yeah, my ding is true. You should is straight, Lou.

Yeah, what you heard is true. I'll make it do shit you didn't even know you could do. Yeah. No, this song is definitely not jacked by that. It's got a similar sound. The fact that they sued and he changed it enough where it didn't sound directly. people version of

redoing the exact song and all he does is give it credit like yeah this is Brazil so we're gonna do it we're gonna call a Calocho no all you did was put your lyrics on the exact same people fuck you you know what I just realized

we never brought up when we did Pitbull episode we talked about how he stole Calibria right but we didn't even talk about how the song he really jacked from was the song that used that song the one that's like it's about B. Calabria.

Calabria remix. It's this song. Well, Calabria is the original. You tell you, man, it's Calabria was original, though. I know, it was. But we didn't even talk about... We didn't even talk about how the fact that this was the version that he really jacked. Like, because...

You know about that? Like, we've played Calabria, but this version of the remix was basically the Pitbull song. That was a remix of Calibria. I don't know what you're talking. Yes, and that's the one that Pipple really just took that exact song. The remix of it? Yeah, and then he just put his shit on top of that.

It's okay. I don't even want to get into it. You're not getting it. I disagree with you, but yeah. Anyways, whatever the fact. All I'm saying is, fucking T.I. and for real, and Robin Thick did not just take the exact same. I got to give it up, beat, put their lyrics over and say,

now we're doing blurred lines. No, that's not what happened. They rechanged it just enough. It didn't sound like you said a little song. Change it a lot. So it sounds like cool and a different song. You would not have known how you'd you be like, oh, okay, now I hear it. Yeah, because I'm very familiar.

Black-ass people. Yeah. I'm very familiar with that song by Marvin Gay, and I didn't even hear it until, like, I just thought. Yeah, it's like, yeah, it's a little, it's, the little drums in the background is kind of the same thing. But anyways, what I realized when I started going on the lyrics of that last verse is, and that's why he's going to take a good girl. That's what it's going to take. And then I went through the whole verse, and now I understand the whole process of the, blurred lines. Robin Thick is talking about how it's going to take a good girl and she knows

she wants it, but she's a good girl. Can't let it get past him. You're far too plastic. Talking about getting blasted. So now he's like, but I hate these blurred lines because this actually goes right into the line of what we were talking about while we were watching the video. Remember what exactly were we discussing as we were watching it? Were they all hooking up? Yeah. because these girls are walking around naked. There's three girls.

There's three guys. We're like, I wonder if this whole video shoot turned into just a huge party. They all hung out after. Like, of course, they're going out to dinner tonight, right? Did they? Or did that end of the video shoot?

They're like, okay, good. Like, yeah, thanks for the shoot. I'm going to go back. This is my husband. Like, or did it immediately just be like, all right, yeah, that was it. It was just for the shoot. That's the blurred lines that Robin Thick is literally singing about.

He says, I hate these blurred lines. I know you want it. I know you want it I know you want it But you're a good girl The way you grab me Must want to get nasty Go ahead

Get at me Everybody get up Come on He's trying to read between the lines He's trying to read between the lines But they're blurry You know what I mean And the cocktails aren't helping them

And the cocktails are making them blurier So why were they naked then Because People want to see naked chicks Exactly, dude. So that's the only reason they made the video. It had nothing to do with blurred lines or anything like that. It had to do with these guys.

We're like, yo, let's just, you know, we'll pay them. Let's blur the lines. And we'll make it unblered lines by making them naked the whole time. Right. Do you think they were uncomfortable doing the video like that? Or do you think they were like, now we're getting paid enough. We're like, no, we're down to be titted, you know, out. Yeah, we're talking about Los Angeles, man.

You know how many girls are ready to get naked for a Robin Thick for a Rell video that's going to get played as much as this one? I mean, I guess so, man, but I'm not showing my balls to anybody. I just want everybody to know. You got to pay prime dollar to get this sack on your collar.

I don't think Robin Thick's trying to get your ball sack in any videos. But, you know what? Sometimes, the lines is blurred. Real quick, man, this song, it's just, like, it has such a great dance. Everybody get

up because it keeps telling you to do that and it just has a fun beat to it and this is one of those songs that most people are going to get up and dance too because it's time to dance. It's a great dance song. I'm going to dance. It's not too crazy of intense. Not too crazy with the EDM feel. It just has a good, steady,

fun. We're going to get out and it's time to actually dance, dance on the floor. And I got to appreciate for real for that because he knows how to bring that typically most of the songs. With his good dance songs, get lucky, happy, this one.

It's just, you know what? It's time to dance and just relax and enjoy life. So thank you for real. I'm going to make a potentially controversial statement. This might be the best trio combined for covering all bases of music since Ursh, Ludacris, and Little John when they put together, yeah.

And then they... And this is exactly what made me think of that. Baby, how you doing? Should we do that one next? Yeah. You know we got to do it again? And that's exactly what made me think of this. It's because I'm listening to it as you describe it.

I'm like, okay, they really got all the variables to them, right? Robin Thick, he's got good vocals, but it's like fun party vocals. But he kind of like takes care of the singing part of it. For real, he's like the producer, but also the voice that we're all like familiar with. We know Pharrell's voice, especially like I think around this time, he really established it. His voice is synonymous with like good fun time songs. And then you get T.I. T.I. has got to be, dare I elect T.I.

to the third verse Hall of Fame. We've got a few in there already. We had Ludacris. We had Snoop Dog. Missy. And then, well, no, just from our Dysic DJ's episode alone. We've elected those two. And then Rottie Rich was on a fringe.

I'm going to wait for Rite Rich to give me one more good thought. third verse and then I'll give it to him. I know he's early. I'm not putting him in you. I'm saying he's on the fringe. I'm just saying he had a good third verse in an earlier episode of Dysk D. And then T.I. He's one of those guys that you want just crushing your first.

T.I. I can bring him out. Yeah, yeah. Bring him out. Bring him out. So they really got a great, just a great combination here. Why did these three not ever just get together and just like, hey, let's run it back and do it again?

Seriously. You know we had to do it again, right? Had to do it again. They could do whatever you like. Yeah Yeah Yeah One thing I asked you the one you bed

Go from Malibu to paribou Yeah Hit me up when you pass through I give you something big enough to tell your ass too Swag on me even when you drag casual I mean it's all old sunbar I'm gonna a hundred year not down What I pull my far side let you

Pair me back Nothing like your leg I here. Hey, too square for you. Hey, what the fuck, pull your hair like, so I did watch Hand waiting for you to salute and chewed it,

Pipping. Not many women can refute it, Piping, I'm a nice guy, but go get a few here. I'm a shit to wrap. Hey, what the fuck? Did T.I. Just go through, dude.

Oh, man, he went through it all. Just give us a quick rundown. Lasted at all. Because T.I. I know he said he's going to pull his hair for you and some shit like that. Like, give us a quick real rundown because I got to know what T.I.

We all want to know. Huss gang, homie. Let me holl out him real quick. One thing I ask you, let me be the one you back that ass up to. Yeah, you're getting there to dance and saying you just wanted to bring it. Okay, cool. Go from Malibu to Paris, Boo. Had a bad bitch.

He ain't bad as you. Yeah. Okay, got another girl. Calling out. So he's now referencing cities that he could take you to, also pointing out, hey, other bitches in there. Multiple women in the picture. Not bitches.

I'd refer to no women as bitches. Just want you women to know that. Just know that. Even though he just literally said, had a bitch, but she ain't bad as you. Yeah, but I was in. saying that was the verses. So hit me up when you pass through. I'll give you something big enough to tear your ass and to.

Okay, so they're not learning the lines in these lyrics at all. That's one thing that you've got to say from these respectable artists, from Robin Thick to Farrell to Tia, although Tia, I'm sure he's fucking said some lot of crazier shit than this. But like, they're all just like, hey, we're trying to put out, you almost got to respect the fact that they're putting out like a mainstream banger. And they're completely going against all the rules of mainstream.

Like, we're going to call out shit that you don't want your kids to hear. We're going to make a video that you can't let your kids see. Play it like it is. That's going to be the most mainstream song. And you're going to have it at your kids' birthday party. Yeah. It's going to be there. They went there for sure.

Swag on them, even if you dress casual. I mean, it's almost unbearable. In a hundred years not dare what I pull a far side let you pass me by. Oh, damn. Love a good reference to Far Side, because Fariside was a much. my favorite underground groups from the 90s passing you by one of the songs I grew up with

passing me so quick clip of that real quick All right I got it I'm happy to get them in this mix Because then I would let you know that I love you So when I bothered your man then I would be true The only lying I would do is in the bed with you The other one who loves you jeeryly

Because P.S love me tender But the latter came back three days later Return to send her Damns Right there That got me through high school. Nothing like your last guy. He's too square for you. He don't smack that ass and pull your hair like that. So I'm just watching and waiting for you to salute the true big

pimping. Not many women can't refuse this pimping. I'm a nice guy but don't get a confused. Get pimping. Everybody get up. Wait, I'm a nice guy but don't get it confused. Get pimping. Everybody get up. I don't know, man. He probably just rhymes some shit. It's a lot about pimping. He's basically the last three lines. The last three lines all end with pimping. So he's, you know, He's got you. He's doing the whole

Jay Z whack-ass rhyme. He's letting you know he's pimping. I mean, you don't, you're gonna make it about Jay Z.

He just wants to let you know. He's saying, I hate when he does the same word. You could have come up with someone now. Oh, you're talking about I thought you were

making the pimping thing about Jay Z. No, I'm talking about Jay Z always is the same word and then just keeps repeating the same word.

That's a juvenile thing. Oh yeah. She is a juvenile thing. Okay. And then Robin Thick goes into shake your rump. Get down. So,

do it like it hurt. Hey, everybody got up. So, yeah, this song is largely about fucking. So give me a quick description. As you've read and gone through the story, what is this story about? All three of these guys. In 10 words or less. Like, around 10 words.

Robin, Thick, Farrell, T.I. B. Trying to fuck. That was eight words. Cool. Well, T.I. You put two. Yeah.

They trying to fuck. That's what this song is. song's all about. And what's the blurred lines? Why is it called blurred lines? They hate those blurred lines because so many times, you got to think there's a lot of times these guys are in situations where they're surrounded by girls where it's like maybe it's a little bit of a corporate event. It's not, that's maybe what they're trying to show right here. Like, hey, sometimes girls just want to walk around naked. Let's let them do that. Why do we always got to keep so PC? Because when they're in these situations, they see all these girls around them

and they're like, come on, just shake your room. Get down. Get down. Get up. Do you like it hurt? What? You don't like work? Like they're just like... Like show us what you're working with. You know you get down, but stop trying to hide it. Why don't you just get...

Yeah, exactly. Stop trying to hide it. Show us what you do. Just get naked and march around like the hot Burnett girl on this video. Just do that. Can you do that? So stop hiding what you really are. If you get down, show me.

Yeah. Got it. All right. Let's send this song right out here with one of the dopest dance songs of the 2000s. teens, right? 2000? I still don't know what we're supposed to call those

whatever, here we go. All right, I got to point this out. The best part about that is Justin immediately took Farrell's advice when he says Hey, we got to get up. And he immediately jumped up when he hit playing the last one.

He immediately jumped up when he hit playing the last one. And he started doing a couple of dance moves that I'd like to take us through a little bit. Okay? So it was a lot of vibe him. But then he started doing the circular fist move, right? That one's my favorite.

You're doing that. And then it was kind of like a little bit of like a bored hump move, you know? It was like a, I mean... Into a full pebble thrust. Yeah. Dancing, baby. Yeah, exactly. It brought it out of you.

The funny thing about it to me was that you got up like, all right, well, this is what I got to do on the song plays. This is what happens. It's going to make me do this. And like, odds are if we're in a more life. lively setting you would have like really but it was just kind of like your gumping emotions i was like all right here it is everybody got to get up there it goes the song it's a great song great dance song even though they try to make it make it seem like it was from a different

song no it's great for real robin thick ti they brought it with this song it lasts it like it would trust this trio it lasted like three songs three years of like solid you but it you're to play and everybody's gonna dance but it was still play if you played it now it's reached it's time now where now you can replay it yeah There was a couple years where it's reached the statute of limitations of being like, okay, it's like played out because it's like a few years ago. Now it's like literally like eight years ago. So we've reached the part where it's like, oh, remember this and it takes you back to a time. Exactly.

When it existed. Exactly. And it's a classic one for that. And I'll always use it when I'm DJing because it gets me dancing, gets everybody dancing, gets grandma dancing. So it's a great song, man. It really is an epic song. And a line that I don't think I fully picked up on the first time we went through it that I noticed. this time is he says you're far from plastic

which okay so this song is geared at the girls who are like the wholesome girls they're like the nice girls not the ones who are like trying to like be the girls you're full of plastic yeah yeah who's like showing up

and they're like slutty out at the club who's just like really just like being there your ass is out yet yeah exactly like they're trying to like appeal to like the ones that aren't blurring anything they don't care about the ones who are just right the ones who are like no I'm here to fuck a rock star and find a sugar daddy.

Yeah, all that, yeah. But then they're talking about they don't like the blurred line. So they're trying to find a middle ground. Well, that's what they're trying to do. They're trying to coax them out of their little shell, I think, and be like, hey, you can get up right now. Okay? Everybody get up, including you. So dance with this.

And also, you know you want it. So fuck these blurred lines. Come and get at it, you know? So, yeah, a bean. That doesn't change the fact that Robin Thick. Farrell and Ti definitely trying to fucking this and I would love to see him do it again Maybe you know

One day we'll get another A little sequel because I'm here for it But um Let's slap this shit out All right What you got? Just you know Because of the video Because of how good of a dance song it is

And because of how many times I used it as a DJ In my wedding industry And it saved a dance floor I'm gonna get this motherfucker out It made me get up and dance. It makes Grandma get up and dance. The video is fantastic. If you haven't seen it, please go to get up.

Everybody got to get up a dance. Apparently, it's just like one of my old favorite songs, got to give it up by Marvin Gay. It's just a great song, dude, and there's nothing negative I can honestly say about it. In all honesty, the video of the women, they didn't look like they were being looked at differently. They looked like they were being free with their bodies

and enjoying themselves. there was nothing disrespectful about the video in any case and the song it's just all good everything about the song is good so I gave it my five slaps that's my rating Steve what you got for him man Steve what you got for him man Steve I was just giving you a chance to rebuttal

because I knew that was coming no no no you're not gonna all right it's a good one you should have gone first because I'm gonna go yeah it sounds underwhelming now yeah it does Three slaps and then like a bunch of snaps.

Yeah. Why so underwhelming? Because you gave it five. I'm not going to give it five. It's not a five slabber. Why isn't it a four? What is drawing you from not thinking it's a great... Maybe it's been a little played out.

Rebuttal it. Rebuttal it. I don't want a rebuttal. I'm not a rebuttal. That's your thing. You do that. I get offended. We can't always be on the same page and everything.

I like this song. You're acting like three slaps and a bunch of snaps is a bad rating. That's a great rating for me. Can I rebuttal? Yeah, I gave you a chance. to but you're already given five. No, you're locked in there. No, I think it's a good side.

It's a fun song to death too. It's the song that I've not willingly played since it got really popular. So because of that, and I've become aware of it. I've been aware of it the whole time. You know, for a song to be at least a for a slapper, it's got to be a song that I will go out of my way to be like, oh, remember that song?

I want to play that right now. And I would never do that by myself. You know, like, I want to hear it by myself. That's got to make it a for a for slapper. If I'm in a room and there's like some people here, I'd be like, oh, this might work, but it also could totally flop too. So it's hard to say, I still like it. We do need to discuss the fact that in the music video, they literally had a wall of balloons that spelled out Robin Thick has a big dick. And I got to say, if you're going to go out of your way to make that statement in balloon form.

Yeah, let's see it. That shit better be true. That better be true. Let's see your Batman. Let's see your Batman, Robin. Really doubling down on it there, okay? Yeah. But Castle, as we get out of here, can we, you still got that,

you got that video lined up? Could we, can we look at that video again? Yeah, it's literally still sitting right here. You want to see the naked Shakespeare? I mean, I just want to see the video again, so. Yeah, because Farrell also, he plays the guitar well and stuff. Exactly. That's what I want to see.

That's what I want to see. There's a balloon wall that spells out shit. Not that, but the, yeah, you got it. There's a race car. Can we watch that then? Yeah, let's pull it up again. Let's do it. Next!