Apparently Robin Thicke missed the memo regarding what the nature of his VMA performance with Miley Cyrus would be. He claims that he was surprised when Cyrus started twerking against his groin during their onstage performance at the awards show. “That’s all on her,” he said in an Oprah interview, “I’m just twerked upon.”
Miley Cyrus tells a different story. “He was in rehearsal as much as I was and loving it, people,” she told Ellen in an interview of her own.
It is very likely that he was instrumental in the preparation for the stage performance of his own song. With Miley Cyrus bursting at the seams before the show, promising a historical appearance and catching loads of attention for twerking leading up to the event, it also seems unlikely that she played the twerking card close to the chest during practices.
Popular perceptions of Miley Cyrus and her hypersexual antics aside, Robin Thicke has not had the best track record this year regarding the respectful sexualization of women. Criticism over the video for his single, Blurred Lines, focused heavily on the degrading nature of the women presented. All the men were fully clothed, yet the women wore nude colored bikini bottoms with no tops.
While Cyrus didn’t go topless at the VMAs, she was in a nude bikini, harkening back to the video for the song in which he was performing. One has to ponder what purpose their collaboration served, if not to have her act in an extremely sexual nature during his song. Her performance was controversial in the exact same vein as his song, in that it made many feel like women were being disrespected.
Robin Thicke’s insistence that he was surprised by Miley Cyrus twerking at the VMAs is consistent with his previous lack of ownership regarding his actions and career moves. Examining Thicke’s behavior this year surrounding the making, release and backlash from, Blurred Lines, passing the buck off to Miley Cyrus is right on par with what should be expected of him.
When his song was criticized as “rapey,” he responding by saying that he had a great time disrespecting women. He claimed it was a nice change from all the time he had spent respecting them. He also insisted that the video was not disrespectful because his wife was largely responsible for its conceptualization.
Thicke’s choice to wash his hands of the controversy by offering Cyrus up as a sacrificial lamb is a bit slimey. He is literally putting all of the blame for a shared performance on her, and complaining of the backlash he has received, which is minimal compared to that which she has endured. Yet again, Thicke responds to the need to respect women with a complete lack of grace or ownership.
His choice to phrase his denials of involvement in the incident as something happened to him is evidence of his obliviousness. He is the one who released a song which many argue makes the message “no means yes” a catchy earworm. It seems a little odd to follow that up with a super raunchy performance which he supposedly didn’t consent to. It is just another example of his attempts to bolster his credibility by placing the onus on the women around him.
Miley Cyrus, on the other hand, has been making it a point to own her behavior lately, for better or worse. She has spoken candidly about many things including enjoying drugs and has refused to apologize for her VMA appearance. She is not trying to save face, while Thicke clearly is.
It is difficult to believe that Robin Thicke was truly surprised by the events at the VMAs when Miley Cyrus was at the height of her twerking craze before their collaboration and his song was so sexual in nature.
(Op-ed)
Written by: Vanessa Blanchard
Discover more from Guardian Liberty Voice
Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.
3 Responses
Hey, how’s it going?
Did you hear that the powers that run this world want to put a RFID microchip in our body? It will contain not only our bank accounts but our personal information, making us total slaves to the elite. This will cause us to lose even more of our privacy.
Did you know that this RFID microchip matches perfectly with the Mark of the Beast in the Bible, more specifically Revelation 13:16-18?
“He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name…”
Referring to the last days, this could only be speaking of a cashless society, which we have yet to see, but are heading towards. Otherwise, we could still buy or sell without the mark amongst others if physical money was still currency. It’s amazing that the Bible foretold a cashless society!
Did you also hear that the Jewish people are in the process of bringing about the Third Temple prophesied in the Bible by the prophet Daniel, Jesus, and Apostle Paul? They deny Jesus as their Messiah and say their Messiah will be revealed to rule the whole world under a one world religion. They are not even hiding this information, but are actually promoting it. You can view videos about this on YouTube.
When Donald Trump made Jerusalem captial of Israel in late December 2017, the Jewish people said this was a big step for them to build this Third Temple. They even printed a Temple coin with president Trump’s face on the front with king Cyrus'(the man who built the Second Temple in the Bible) face behind him. On the back of the coin is an image of the Third Temple. They are selling these coins to raise money to build the Temple.
People have been saying for many years that the end is near, but we needed not only the Third Temple, but also the technology for there to be a cashless society for the Mark of the Beast to be a reality.
There is much more to know, please visit http://WWW.BIBLEFREEDOM.COM to see all the proof!
GOD BLESS, JESUS LOVES YOU!
He was going at it with her…its not like she chased him backwards across the stage with her butt in the air!
Bull-SH*T! There’s pic’s & videos of them in NY coming & going from rehearsals TOGETHER – was he blindfolded? One of the little people who was part of the cast for the performance said that Miley and Robin’s parts were “highly rehearsed” including keeping track of where and how many times Miley stuck her tongue out. After the “performance” (one ring circus) they were high-fiving each other and he kept saying “I told you we’d make history, that’s what we’re doing.” He even claimed that he signed Miley for one of his upcoming videos. After the media machine started working the next day, he says it was funny/silly. Then Gloria Loring (Robin’s mommy) said that “you can’t un-see it” and that was probably when he never wanted reminded about it again. Now I could care less about either of them. I would be the LAST person to defend Miley. Robin’s behavior is the tip of the iceberg of what she’s going to get as long as she keeps acting & dressing the way she does now. I’m not anti-feminism, I’m pro-reality and by acting the way she does with partaking in drug & drink (underage), she’s screwing up. She can’t twerk, needs to PUT HER TONGUE IN HER MOUTH, and fire her stylist if such a person exists (oh yeah autotune & lip-synch-stop). Robin’s a total douche bag in a Beetlejuice suit. These two are utterly clueless, and likely hopeless!