‘For me, I first went to Malibu, slowed down, focused on my son, and then my father passed by and I focused on having more children and more of a family and taking my time with writing, for I wrote so much, but nothing really said anything that mattered to me as a whole and a whole, ‘he continued. Bits and pieces. Then I just started realizing that I always wanted to be an artist’s artist, a singer-songwriter, and all I cared about was my catalog, but those were the songs. Then I got all these other songs. things happened you just got caught, man. Then I was not happy. I was not happy. I had bad routines, and I lost myself. Then even worse, I lost the music. I lost my confidence. “And my confidence in my own music, so it did not quite come back until Andre passed.”
“Bad routines. Bad habits,” he added. “The festivities, which happen every night, are a performance and a meal and a party. Then you go to the next city, and it’s a performance and a meal and a party. Then you get caught up in it. Then you end up with some personal struggles with your marriage or things like that, for me it’s been 20 wonderful years, and then the fame hit at the worst time and it’s all thrown into a melting pot. I was the wrong man for the job. ‘
Through his personal growth, however, Thicke still has a healthy relationship with ‘Blurred Lines’. “Usually the first piece, when it comes down to it, ‘bumps, bumps, bumps, everyone gets up.’ The crowd is going crazy, ‘he explained. “It’s one of their favorite songs, no doubt. The people who are not big fans of mine are the only ones they know. It’s true. It’s like I’m doing a casino show and that they’re like “Who’s this man?”, Then suddenly, “Oh, okay. I know the one.”
“I realized that the reason I started it all was because I love music,” he added. “I like to make music. When I first started performing, I like to perform. So I’m just going for the part of it. I’ve never added anything to it that was extra. I’ve never tried “but we just bump, and let’s all get up and dance. That’s all the song meant to people.”
For his new album, Thicke again says that his “intentions are pure”. “I want to make amazing music that spreads love, feels like a warm blanket, that brings people closer together, that helps heal wounds and bring back tires, and that’s what I needed,” he continued. “And that’s what this music did for me and that’s what I wanted to do for others.”
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