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    Robin Thicke Turns Bank Robbery Experience Into Song for Lil Wayne's Grammy-Winning Album

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    During an appearance on ‘The Kelly Clarkson Show’, the ‘Blurred Lines’ hitmaker claims that the armed hold-up incident, which took place when he was 18, did not leave him traumatized.

    Mar 3, 2021
    AceShowbiz – Robin Thicke wrote a song about a teenage bank robbery experience that made it onto a Grammy-winning album for Lil Wayne.
    The “Blurred Lines” hitmaker once found himself in the middle of an armed hold-up, while grabbing some cash in a bank, and it inspired him to write a song about the drama years later.
    “When I was around 18 years old, I was in the bank getting some cash for a weekend vacation and the bank just got robbed,” he remembered during an appearance on “The Kelly Clarkson Show”. “These two guys came in with masks [and] automatic weapons, and told everyone to get down on the ground.”
    “So I ended up writing this whole song about my experience going through a live bank robbery and years later, Lil Wayne ended up doing a verse on it and put it on his album, and won a Grammy on that album actually.”

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    And Thicke admits the event itself wasn’t too scary, because it was just “like a movie.”
    “It was a little traumatising,” he admits, “but once it was over, I was OK with it. It reminded me of the movies. It seemed kind of surreal at the time, but I didn’t really feel threatened as much as I thought [I would].”
    “[I thought], ‘Wow this does look like a movie.’ It was probably because they [bankrobbers] were very young. They seemed like they were like, 19, 18 years old… They looked just like my friends, dressed up in masks.”
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    “I didn’t see these big muscular adult men, I saw these two slim teenage men come in – and they looked my buddies.”

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      Robin Thicke Insists He Had 'No Negative Intentions' When Making 'Rapey' Song 'Blurred Lines'

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      While insisting his 2013 hit single was made with ‘no negative intentions,’ the ‘Sex Therapy’ singer understands the controversy surrounding the lyrics and racy music video.

      Feb 13, 2021
      AceShowbiz – Robin Thicke would never make a video like “Blurred Lines” again.
      The singer and his collaborator Pharrell Williams enjoyed huge success with the 2013 single but it also attracted controversy, with its lyrics branded “rapey” and its accompanying video – which featured Emily Ratajkowski dancing topless – branded degrading to women.
      And while Robin insisted there were “no negative intentions” around the track, he understands the backlash.
      “We had no negative intentions when we made the record, when we made the video,” he told the New York Post newspaper. “But then it did open up a conversation that needed to be had. And it doesn’t matter what your intentions were when you wrote the song … the people were being negatively affected by it.”

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      “And I think now, obviously, culture, society has moved into a completely different place. You won’t see me making any videos like that ever again!”
      The “Lost Without U” singer admitted he lost “perspective” on what was “appropriate” at that point in his career.
      “I had lost perspective on my personal life and my music and what was appropriate… and why I was doing it,” he added. “I’d lost the intention, you know what I mean? I needed to regain my perspective and my positive intention of what my music was for – and what my life was for.”
      Robin has now released a new album “On Earth, and in Heaven”, and hopes the record will offer fans some positivity.
      “I wanted to put out something that was very healing and loving and helped people get through their hard times and see the light at the end of the tunnel,” he smiled.

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      Robin Thicke Lost Confidence in His Own Music as He 'Chased' Fame During Early Career

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      The ‘Blurred Lines’ hitmaker talks about his early career, admitting he was left feeling empty as he lost his faith in himself as a musician while chasing success.

      Feb 12, 2021
      AceShowbiz – Robin Thicke was “chasing” fame and success in the early years of his career.
      The “Blurred Lines” hitmaker has admitted to “losing” himself in the process of seeking fame and that, ultimately, it left him feeling a bit empty.
      “I started to chase it more and need it more and think that that was what was going to make me happy,” he told Zane Lowe on Apple Music. “Ultimately, of course, it never does. It didn’t. I lost myself in the process chasing something that I never had and never needed, but then once I got some of it, I thought I needed it.”
      Robin – who has Julian, 10, with ex-wife Paula Patton, and three children with girlfriend April Love Geary – thinks his life has become more fulfilled since he decided to “slow down.”

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      “For me, it wasn’t until I actually went to Malibu, slowed down, focused on my son, and then my father passed and I focused on having more kids and more of a family and taking my time with the writing, because I was writing so much, but nothing was really saying anything that mattered to me as a whole,” he mused.
      “Bits and pieces. Then I just kind of started to realise that I always wanted to be an artist’s artist, a singer-songwriter, and all I cared about was my catalogue, was the songs. Then I got into all this other stuff that you just get caught up in, man. Then I wasn’t happy. I wasn’t happy. I had bad routines, and I lost myself.”
      Robin even admitted to losing faith in himself as a musician.
      “Then, even worse, I lost the music. I lost my trust and my confidence in my own music,” he recalled.

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