‘Paula’ Sells Just 530 Copies, So Is Robin Thicke The Most Pathetic Man In Pop?

Taking your heartache and pain over a failed relationship and trying to turn it into music is nothing new. But when Robin Thicke released Paula he took things to a whole new level. Writing an entire album about your former partner and then going so far as to name the album after her, has turned out not to be the massive romantic gesture Robin Thicke intended it to be. Instead most have found it all pretty creepy, so creepy that only 530 copies of the album have been sold so far in the UK. So does the album’s failure, plus all of Robin’s other actions over the past 12 months mean that Robin Thicke really is the most pathetic man in pop?

So is Robin Thicke the most pathetic man in pop? Yes. But it’s not all because his album has sold so poorly or because he named it after his ex wife. It’s because he really did just royally screw everything up. After years of trying to make it, he released a song which, yes was lyrically questionable, but was also hugely successful. Off the back of ‘Blurred Lines’ Robin should be having the life he always dreamed of. Instead he believed his own hype and appeared to buy too much into his image and it cost him dearly. For those who mocked Robin before, Paula has just given them a whole lot more ammunition and it also might just have sounded the death knell on his career. Perhaps if he could do it all again, even Robin would make sure 'Blurred Lines' never happened.