“Blurred Lines” was the biggest hit single of 2013 selling more than 6 million copies despite the controversy surrounding what critics called its sexist lyrics that appeared to advocate date rape , as well as for a highly risqué video that featured singer Robin Thicke, wearing a casual suit, cavorting with a klatsch of semi-nude women.
Or perhaps “Blurred Lines” achieved the massive success that it did not despite the brouhaha over its sexism, but because of it.
That appears to be what Enrique Iglesias believes — at least the video part if it. The 38-year-old crooner waited barely more than a month before delivering what the GigWise music site described as “an awful attempt to emulate the ‘Blurred Lines’ video.”
Indeed, the video for Enrique Iglesias’ new single, “I’m a Freak,” features the heartthrob singer at what appears to be a Girls Gone Wild- style pool party, surrounded by barely-clad, young women who seem to want to do nothing more than thrust their hind quarters and crotches in the Spanish superstar’s face.
Or, as one Australian news site described the spectacle , “he spends much of his time passionately singing the song to an extra’s bum.”
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In similar fashion to “Blurred Lines,” the theme of the video seems to be that extremely attractive women in their early 20s want nothing more than to make themselves sexually available to a mid-30s male vocalist.
The video, and song, also features the bald, white, Cuban-American rapper Pitbull — whose real name is Armando Pérez — delivering a hip-hop interlude that appears to be about his overwhelming desire to perform oral sex on an unnamed woman.
In fairness to Enrique Iglesias, son of the romantic easy-listening signer Julio Iglesias, the lyrics to “I’m a Freak,” unlike those of “Blurred Lines,” cannot really be construed as advocating date rape.
But as the feminist site Jezebel noted , “‘I’m A Freak’ follows in the age-old music tradition of objectifying women as male performers boast about their sexual prowess. It’s actually a testament to how little the basic music video format has changed at all since the 90s — it’s like if Hollywood had never stopped making Die Hard movies.”
Of course, Hollywood has never stopped making Die Hard movies , so perhaps “I’m a Freak” should come as no surprise, especially after the massive success of “Blurred Lines” in 2013.