I Got A Gift For You

Robin Thicke featuring Kendrick Lamar “Give It 2 U”

Learning that Robin Thicke is a 35-year-old man who has been married for years to a woman he’s been with since he was 16 totally changed my perspective on his music. If you don’t know that, he just seems like this ultra-lascivious guy who is just relentlessly hitting on women. But listening to his music with the assumption that he’s always singing about the same woman, it’s…sorta sweet? He’s just this guy who can’t get enough of his wife, and loves nothing more than to buy underwear for her, and have sex like they just met two weeks ago. This context doesn’t make his music any less lecherous or sleazy too, and that’s great – “Give It 2 U” is an ideal vehicle for some ultra-raunchy lyrics given the way the synth parts throb in this sort of obscene way, but Thicke’s vocals are both ultra-lusty and earnestly romantic. He gives the song a dimension it probably wouldn’t have otherwise.

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