Trivia / Robin Thicke

• Hostility on the Set: "Blurred Lines" was his biggest hit in the short term but also set into motion the events that ultimately killed his career once his lecherous behavior was exposed, so it's appropriate that some of that apparently went down on the set of the music video for the song itself. Emily Ratajkowski, one of the models who appeared in the video, wrote in her autobiography My Body that she signed on to do the video because it had a female director and she was told that it would be subverting the Male Gaze by putting the women in a position of power over the male singers, but that she was subjected to routine sexual harassment and groping from Thicke on set. While she initially felt comfortable working with him, even when shooting the Not Safe for Work version where she was topless, she said that Thicke turned more aggressive once he got drunk. Director Diane Martel corroborated her story, saying that she yelled at Thicke "what the fuck are you doing? That's it! The shoot is over!"

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