'Blurred Lines': New Feminist Parody 'Defined Lines' VIDEO Previously Banned by YouTube Is Restored
Despite being taken down by YouTube, Defined Lines, a new feminist parody of Robin Thicke's Blurred Lines, was restored today.
This most recent parody was created by the Law Revue girls -- Adelaide Dunn, Olivia Lubbock, and Xoe Ellwood -- from Auckland University. The parody does not only turn Thicke's song on its head in terms of visual content (with the reversal of gender roles) but also reworks the lyrics.
"Boy you'd better quit all your sexist ways/So hear our manifesto of the modern age/It's time to undermine/The masculine confines/Coz we don't wanna grind/Gri-ii-iind," the ladies sing.
The video was pulled from YouTube because it was flagged for inappropriate content. Defined Lines had racked up more than 300,000 hits since Friday, Aug. 30, when it first went up online.
In an interview with the Inquisitr, Lubbock, a fifth year law student, said that the video was not intended to be taken so seriously.
"We had a lot of fun making it and like I said it was part of a comedy sketch so it was always intended to be taken as a bit of a joke," she said.
In July, the Seattle-based burlesque troupe Mod Carousel created their own gender-reversed 'Sexy Boys' parody of the song. Singers Caela Bailey, Sydni Devereux, and Dalisha Phillips played the roles of Thicke, Pharrell, and T.I., in the video.
Watch the restored video for Defined Lines here:
