Robin Thicke Talks Marriage: ‘We’re John And Yoko’
Alright Robin Thicke, we get it. You love your wife.
The “Blurred Lines” singer gushed once again about Paula Patton, his actress wife of eight years, in a recent interview with Vanity Fair. After locking up the song of the summer, letting Miley Cyrus twerk on him at the MTV VMAs, and grabbing some fan’s butt in an impromptu photo, Thicke has said something to the tune of “I’m a family man, I love my wife, it’s just a performance,” a hundred times. So what’s one more?
“There is nothing normal about a musician’s lifestyle. I don’t have a 9-to-5 job at the post office. Seventy-five percent of my songs are about how much I love my wife and how much I need her. We’ve been married for eight years, and together since we were 16. We’re very lucky to have the greatest friendship; we’re John and Yoko — whatever that is — that’s who she is to me. I’ve always put her before everything and will continue to. But, yeah, be careful what you wish for.”
Thicke has a few more things to say about Miley Cyrus’ twerking, too:
“I spent my whole career playing it safe, being a gentleman, never doing anything controversial. They told me [beforehand] that Miley’s going to take her clothes off and dance around and she might bend over. I just said, ‘I don’t care, let’s entertain the people. Let’s give them something they’re not ready for, let’s make them talk.'”
Talk, we did. Mostly about the moral turpitude of pop music, but as far as Thicke’s concerned, he has nothing to do with that. He’s just in it for the music.
“I’ve released 100 songs, and this one song has sold more, and the video was seen more, than everything else I’ve ever done combined. For the last 10 years, my audience at every concert was 90 percent black women. This year, pop radio and a white [audience] decided, ‘We like this guy.’ That’s the difference between being an R&B star and a pop star. It’s the difference between having an R&B song and ‘La Vida Loca.'”
And while “Blurred Lines” has been a major success, it’s not about the money, either.
“I grew up in a Hollywood family with money, so money is not the reason I make music.”
You can check out the rest of Robin Thicke’s Vanity Fair interview here.
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