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"Robin Thicke has done his dad proud: The singer&amp;apos;s father says he&amp;apos;s a fan of his son&amp;apos;s smash hit &amp;quot;Blurred Lines&amp;quot; and its titillating video. &amp;quot;I liked it right away. It&amp;apos;s an earworm, that bass and those vocal licks stick with you right off the bat,&amp;quot; Alan Thicke told the Village Voice. &amp;quot;I was as impressed with the track as I was with the video.&amp;quot;\r\nSee Photos of Robin Thicke at Rolling Stone&amp;apos;s American Music Awards Afterparty \r\nThe elder Thicke &amp;#x2013; who famously played Jason Seaver on Growing Pains &amp;#x2013; noted the prevalence of covers and copycat &amp;quot;Blurred Lines&amp;quot; videos as a mark its quality. &amp;quot;I don&amp;apos;t know if it was by design,&amp;quot; he said, &amp;quot;but it&amp;apos;s good that they did something that was so visually simple enough and straight-forward enough that it could be reproduced and copied by those choosing to parody it.&amp;quot;\r\nAlan Thicke also had a good suggestion for &amp;quot;Blurred Lines&amp;quot; as a TV theme song. &amp;quot;It might have worked on Modern Family which seeks to re-establish the family genre and new forms of nuclear families,&amp;quot; he said, noting the ABC show &amp;quot;could have been called Blurred Lines.&amp;quot;\r\nThe actor also dished some dirt on his son&amp;apos;s earliest days in music. &amp;quot;Actually, [Robin] started with some dance moves. He was a big fan of Michael Jackson and songs like &amp;apos;Smooth Criminal,&amp;apos;&amp;quot; Thicke said. Robin and actor friend Brian Austin Green made a video to &amp;quot;Smooth Criminal,&amp;quot; and from there, the budding singer started mimicking musicians he liked. &amp;quot;He could do Stevie Wonder, Prince and Billy Idol, so he started doing what his favorites do as he evolved his own sound and approach to music,&amp;quot; Thicke said.\r\nBut Robin soon overtook his father musically. &amp;quot;Way back in those early days when he was 15 or 16, I used to write a few songs with him to show him form and structure a little bit,&amp;quot; Thicke said, &amp;quot;but by the time he was 17 he was already better than me so I had to just share him with the world at that point.&amp;quot;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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