Student Group Wants BU to Cancel Robin Thicke Concert Over Sexist Lyrics
Why are some students so determined to ruin a good time for everyone else?
FOX News reports.
Student group wants Boston University to scrap Robin Thicke concert
A Boston University student group is demanding the school cancel an upcoming Robin Thicke concert, complaining that the pop star’s “Blurred Lines” lyrics are sexist.
Members of Humanists of Boston University have collected 1,500 signatures on an online petition to stop the performance. Thicke has a March 4 date at the school’s Agganis Arena.
“Thicke’s hit song, ‘Blurred Lines,’ celebrates having sex with women against their will,” the group’s petition says, according to Boston Magazine. “Lyrics such as, ‘I know you want it,’ explicitly use non-consensual language. And while watching the extremely explicit video, the insinuations grow from subtle to explicit to obnoxious.”
– Patrick Johnson, Humanists of Boston University
“Clearly, Boston University has been a bedrock for feminism and ideologies of equality more generally. It is a dishonor to our feminist history to symbolically idolize Robin Thicke by allowing him to perform his misogynist music at our university,” the petition adds.
“We see this as a blatant form of reinforcing rape culture and sexism,” Patrick Johnson, the organization’s president, told Fox 25.
Thicke performed “Blurred Lines” during the Grammy Awards show in January. The song was a Grammy nominee.
A university spokesman says it is unlikely the show will be canceled.
Student group wants Boston University to scrap Robin Thicke concert (FOX News)