Los Angeles Times

‘Blurred Lines’

Robin Thicke featuring T.I. and Pharrell, 2013

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“What rhymes with ‘hug me’?” Thicke famously asked in this shameless funk come-on, and the answer he got was a whole lot less pleasurabl­e than he’d anticipate­d: first claims that “Blurred Lines” was “kind of rapey,” as one critic put it, then a lawsuit from Marvin Gaye’s family, which convinced a jury that Thicke had ripped off Gaye’s “Got to Give It Up.” Summery-ness ranking: 12

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