Audience classifications of the song 'Blurred lines'

1. By Amber Garland

2. For my work I am researching Audience classification for the music video and song ‘Blurred lines’ by
Robin Thicke, Pharrell Williams and American rapper T.I . ‘Blurred lines was released on the 26th of
March 2013
Overall this song has 349,694,991 views and Robin Thicke’s Vevo has around 1,216,987 subscribers
The song also has 1,278,217 likes and 162,457 dislikes. The record companies are Star Trak and Interscope.

3. I think that the specific age for viewing a video such as ‘Blurred lines’ is around the mid-late teens.
This is because of the way the video is presented, its lyrics are rude and the music video is too much
of a bad influence. The age range seems appropriate because the older a teen will be the less they
will be influenced, because they will know better than the younger generation.

4. The gender that this video and song is aimed towards is both male and female, because boys watch for
the 'eye candy' and the female audience watch because they want to be like the other girls. again I think
that this is mainly influencing both genders, because the girls think that that is how they should act.
Though, Males would be the more popular gender watching the video. This is because they are
influenced to think that they should treat women differently, and more importantly, the wrong way.

5. In my opinion I think that there isn't entirely a disposable income for the specific audience. I think this
because the audience either doesn't have a job, or has a form of job that doesn't pay. Although, me being a
teenager myself, it is quite difficult to get a disposable income because of the world today. Though late
teens can have somewhat of a disposable income because of apprenticeships and they receive pay for
doing jobs at home.

6. In my opinion, Religious audiences would immediately turn away from this video and its lyrics as soon as
the first sentence is sung. This is because the lyrics in this would be classed as a sin towards them and
their religion. Firstly it shows women with a huge lack of clothing, which, also is a sin towards Christians,
since they believe the more clothes worn, the more close to god.

7. This music video seems quite offensive towards certain ethnicities, since it might not be how they are.
Although the video does show people of different skin tone, it shows various ethnicities but in a
westernized view, such as the richer parts of countries. Like America, Britain etc. whereas poorer parts of
places cannot afford to see.

8. 'Blurred lines would be popular from all over the world. It'd be famous everywhere because it is catchy,
influencing and children think it is part of the new trend for music. It is played everywhere from towns,
cities, seaside leisure's, countryside and countries all around.

9. The main specific interests for audiences watching this music video is so they know the clothing trends,
make-up trends and hairstyle trends. Although, trends have changed through the years so kids think that
the skimpy trends in the video are something that they would want to have. Also, speech is big in this. the
video shows how there would be certain ways for a man to speak to a woman.

10. The video in my opinion is ruining peoples life ambitions, because children now are trying to make
themselves look as much like the celebrities as possible, which is bad because of the revealing clothing
and bright make-up.

11. Positives Negatives
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Ruby Allen commented: ‘I hate how everyone
portrays women like that.’
Mira Kay Luffs You commented: ‘This song is
rapey and anti-feminist.’
ElectroMC commented: ‘I hate these
kind of videos that says that women are
just a sexual object.’
Nikki Smith commented: ‘i love this song. And i
love how the girl meows at 45 secs. i say meow alot
lol. that is me! i am a woman and yes i take care of
myself and i love the attention from men and
women that i get and this is actually a woman
empowering song. the ones who DONT like this
song have self esteem issues. just feel better about
yourself and have fun. this song shows how much
control that females have. and yeh it is fun. =P.
PPL who dont like my comment, im sorry. I am a
good girl but yeh in a fact, this song has it in a
nutshell for strong, confident, beautiful women.’