Effeminate musician Pharrell Williams is featured on the cover of GQ magazine‘s ‘New Masculinity’ issue.
In GQ’s November issue Pharrell Williams apologizes for his masculinity and says he was “embarrassed” for perpetuating rape culture in his 2013 hit “Blurred Lines”.
“Some of my old songs, I would never write or sing today. I get embarrassed by some of that stuff,” the 46-year-old Aries said.
“It just took a lot of time and growth to get to that place… I think ‘Blurred Lines’ opened me up. I didn’t get it at first. Because there were older white women who, when that song came on, they would behave in some of the most surprising ways ever. And I would be like, wow. They would have me blushing. So when there started to be an issue with it, lyrically, I was like, What are you talking about? There are women who really like the song and connect to the energy that just gets you up. And I know you want it – women sing those kinds of lyrics all the time. So it’s like, What’s rapey about that?”
The father of four said he realized that men use the same sort of language when taking advantage of biological women.
“…and it doesn’t matter that that’s not my behavior. Or the way I think about things. It just matters how it affects women. And I was like, Got it. I get it. Cool. My mind opened up to what was actually being said in the song and how it could make someone feel.”
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