Sep 30
Ohio University’s Marching 110 backed down from performing Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines” due to pressure from the administration and criticism over playing what some argue is a song that promotes rape culture.
The marching band’s director, Richard Suk, made the decision to pull the plug on the hit song after four days of practicing it, the Columbus Dispatch reports.
Other college marching bands at schools like Southern University, Jackson State University and the University of Indiana have performed “Blurred Lines” mostly without incident. But British universities have voted to ban the song in campus bars.
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