Word Crimes

[TMBJon]

Love him or hate him, Robin Thicke posted the "Word Crimes" video on his FB page:
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Pret-ty, pret-ty, pret-ty good...

[Bruce the Duck]

Class act!

But he messed up the lyric in his post.

[Big Spoon]

So then he committed a word crime?

[Muppetboy09]

Not really, just not proper quotation of the song

[mrmeadows]

He also tweeted it, but the responses never mention the song at all, but are just people using the opportunity to tell RT they love him. (And "please follow me!") Okie-dokie.
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[weirdalex1311]

So... is it seven (age), Se7en (movie) or just either? I feel like the movie makes more sense, but the video doesn't make a reference to it like I thought it might.

[Big Spoon]

Wow, Se7en didn't even occur to me till you said something. The booklet just lists it as "seven" though, so I'm guessing that's it.

[jacobpacek]

I'm positive it's probably been said before, but in case anyone did not notice, in the music video when it says "Word Crimes" and it's designed like a dictionary, it's the "twenty-seventh" edition.

[weird user]

I didn't realize that Word Crimes and First World Problems were two different songs (they both have the similar "Word"/"World" in the titles).

Which means I should start paying more attention to the full track listings when they are posted. I think somebody heard that one of the songs would be controversial, and I was expecting it to be Word Crimes.

Word Crimes is the more controversial of the two, due to its parody subject.

Oh, I was expecting the content itself to be controversial. I usually don't think a parody of something controversial is controversial (after all, Sesame Street has occasionally spoofed more adult things that kids shouldn't be exposed to). And I haven't heard the original song.

[Skippy]

So... is it seven (age), Se7en (movie) or just either? I feel like the movie makes more sense, but the video doesn't make a reference to it like I thought it might.

I brought this up earlier and I personally think that in the context of the song, it's "seven" as in the age. However, I firmly believe that Al chose the age of seven specifically as a subtle reference to the film's distinctive title art. There are so many other ways to convey that it's something a child would do, and I find it very hard to believe it's a total coincidence that he picked the one that also relates to the movie.

That would explain why it's not referenced in the video. It's just a little tangential joke that isn't supposed to be obvious, but it's there for anyone who wants it.