Blurred Lines eligible for next year’s Junos

TORON TO — Let there be no blurry boundaries heading into next year’s Juno Awards: Robin Thicke’s smash hit Blurred Lines is certainly eligible in the annual gala’s major categories.

Submissions opened this week for the Winnipeg-set 2014 edition of the awards bash and organizers confirmed to The Canadian Press that Thicke’s summer-ruling hit would indeed be a viable candidate.

Organizers said Thicke’s hip-swivelling song and the album of the same name both qualify for Junos, though he would receive any such honour for the tune alone — American collaborators Pharrell Williams and T.I. would receive credit only as featured non-Canadian artists, the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences said.

Thicke holds dual citizenship by virtue of his Canadian father, actor Alan Thicke, but the 36-year-old was born and raised around Los Angeles.

He’s married to Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol actress Paula Patton, and the couple has a son.

Thicke’s Blurred Lines, which generated some controversy over its allegedly sexist lyrics and risqué music video, topped charts around the world and has been certified six times platinum in Canada.

Thicke was previously nominated for a Juno Award for R&B/soul recording of the year for his lower-profile 2011 recording Pretty Lil’ Heart — a fact that tickled him at the time. “I was very honoured — it’s nice to be nominated in dad’s home (country),” he said then. “The nomination is just, it’s very sweet. Very kind.”

The submission period for next year’s Juno Awards runs through Nov. 13.