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Robin Thicke releases first of many odes to estranged wife
By Andy Malt | Published on Tuesday 24 June 2014
When Robin Thicke’s ‘Blurred Lines’ was criticised as being an anthem for rape, the singer denied that it was anything like that, insisting that it was actually a love song to his wife, Paula Patton. Which many people didn’t think was the greatest ever defence.
In February the couple announced that they were splitting up, at which point Thicke got to work writing a new batch of love songs for Patton. Though with titles like ‘Love Can Grow Back’, ‘Forever Love’ and ‘Too Little Too Late’ on his new album ‘Paula’, he seems to have lost that cocky swagger.
Certainly, first single, ‘Get Her Back’, is a downbeat number, labouring the point that Thicke would quite like to reconcile with his estranged wife. In the new video, he appears battered and bruised as text messages saying things like “You drink too much” and “You ruined everything” pop up in front of him, seemingly outlining Patton’s gripes. “I wrote a whole album about you”, another responds, just in case you were still unconvinced that this is something that would actually happen.
It remains to be seen how this works out for him. Probably shouldn’t have had the naked woman wandering around the video though. That might be an issue.
