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Thicke pulls out of Juno Awards slot

By | Published on Monday 31 March 2014

Robin Thicke

Robin Thicke pulled out of Canada’s big awards show, the Juno Awards, this weekend, after doctors ordered a “mandatory vocal rest”. Though there was some speculation that he was actually stepping down from his planned slot at the awards event because of an online protest about his inclusion, stemming from the controversy that surrounded his big hit ‘Blurred Lines’.

The online petition, which garnered much attention in the run up to the big Juno show, stated: “Despite the blatant sexism, degradation of women and promotion of rape culture in Robin Thicke’s song and music video ‘Blurred Lines’, Thicke is nominated for three awards – Artist Of The Year, Pop Album Of The Year, and the Juno Fan Choice Award – at the upcoming Canadian Juno Broadcast Awards in Winnipeg, Manitoba on March 30, 2014. This is not a song, nor a message, that should be rewarded”.

As previously reported, the fallout of the ‘Blurred Lines’ debate will be the focus on one of the half day insight strands at this year’s Great Escape convention, as music industry execs discuss what, if anything, can and should be done about “pop’s misogyny problem”. More info here.

Meanwhile, here is a list of winners of some of the flagship (ie non genre specific) categories at this year’s Juno Awards

Artist Of The Year: Serena Ryder
Group Of The Year: Tegan And Sara
Fan Choice Award: Justin Bieber
Breakthrough Artist Of The Year: Brett Kissel
Breakthrough Group Of The Year: A Tribe Called Red
Songwriter Of The Year: Serena Ryder
Producer Of The Year: Henry ‘Cirkut’ Walter

Single Of The Year: Tegan And Sara – Closer
Album Of The Year: Arcade Fire – Reflektor
Video Of The Year: Matt Barnes – Feeling Good (The Sheepdogs)
International Album Of The Year: Bruno Mars – Unorthodox Jukebox



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