A NZ Thicke parody (NSFW)

The NZ-made video above (language NSFW) is one of the latest in a growing genre of parodies of Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines”. This one is by Auckland University’s Law Revue, which is an annual comedy sketch show written and performed by law students. With its woman-centred focus (and naughtiness) it’s a bit of an antidote to the original—which I’ve still never seen in its entirety, actually (I’ve seen many parodies, though).

Clearly this particular earworm isn’t ready to die quite yet.

Update – September 3, 2013: YouTube has deleted the video for being "too sexually explicit", but a clip of it can still be seen in the linked articles and on the 3News site.

Update 2 – September 3, 2013: The video has been restored to YouTube. Auckland lawyer Rick Shera (@lawgeeknz on Twitter) wonders if the problem wasn’t “sexually explicit” content, but YouTube’s ContentID robots auto-deleting what it thinks is infringing content. He also points out the fact that NZ lacks the same “fair use” copyright exception that the USA and many countries have (except in very limited circumstances). Meanwhile, Diane (@di_f_w on Twitter) sees what’s right about the content and its underlying message (I think she’s spot-on).