The song is still an anthem to date rape. Regardless of how adorable the presentation might be this time.

I've been trolled, but whatever:

http://tinyurl.com/q4ddp8n

Incredibly douchey? Yup. Rapey? Nope.

The key to enjoying Blurred Lines is pretending you don't understand English for a few minutes.

If the argument declaring that this song isn't rapey requires a close and nuanced reading of the lyrics, the argument generally fails.

Pop songs exist on the strength of their hook, and this song's hook is hella rapey and consent ignoring. At best, it falls clearly into the Poe's Law camp.

It doesn't take a close and nuanced reading to say the song isn't rapey - you just listen to it: there's nothing foreboding or threatening about it at all. It's just fun.

You only have to get into the parsing business because people want to take that one repeated line and read a singular awful intent into it, even though plenty of similar (and far dirtier/rapier) things are said during 100% consensual sex every day.

His dad wrote and sang the theme to Diffrent Strokes

If every song with the lyric "I know you want it" or something similar is rapey, well then, a whole lot of terrific (essential, even) R&B, soul, and rock & roll is rapey. Much worse shit gets said on 107.5 all the time. This is all blown out of proportion because of the video -- and the video is definitely dumb.