Feminist views on Blurred Lines Music Video

Feminists definitely recognize that music videos are a source of women being sexually exploited and it has become increasingly popular and common within hip hop and pop music videos. A clear example of this would be ‘Blurred Lines’ Robin Thicke music video. The models in this video wear revealing clothing and they act in a sexual manner, they also have an explicit version of their video, which depicts these women topless, clearly revealing their breasts. Some feminist’s see this video in a negative way, they say that it is just portraying women as objects to be looked at and that the men in the video dominate the women. However the Director of the music video (Diane Martel) which defends her video and she stated that the women were in control, calling it  ‘Sex positive feminism’. The way she backed this up was by stating "Blurred Lines played with the "male gaze" while being entertaining. The naked, sexy women are dominant, the men are submissive.” She mention’s the male gaze, which was a theory that Laura Mulvey.