Robin Thicke has just joined the likes of Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran by indulging in a bit of ‘social heartache’ – where celebrities seem to play out their heartache or emotional distress in minute detail for everyone on social media to share in – with Get Her Back, his new, thinly veiled ode to estranged wife Paula Patton*. *
The ballad, which comes from his new album ‘Paula’ (no prizes for guessing who that’s named after), was first heard when Robin performed it at the Billboard Music Awards in May after the couple parted ways in February.
But in a far more visceral (and frankly about as subtle as a fart in a library) rendition, the video shows a topless, bruised and battered Robin, draped in a Paula Patton lookalike - as well as a series of what looks like text messages popping up on the screen.
‘I kept trying to warn you you were pushing me too far …’ reads a text read at the beginning of the video.
‘You drink too much, you’re embarrassing me,’ comes another.
‘I wrote a whole album about you,’ reads a text, presumably from Thicke himself which leads to a response from ‘Paula’ reading: ‘I don’t care’
The ‘Blurred Lines’ singer met Paula Patton when he was just 14 and they became sweethearts and the pair have been married for eight years. Their romance unravelled after a series of reports pointing to his infidelity. ‘We will always love each other and be best friends, however, we have mutually decided to separate at this time,’ the parents to 3-year-old son Julian Fuego said in a joint statement on Feb. 24.
Something tells us things haven't been so amicable since - and, to be honest, we're not sure they'll get back to that stage if Robin continues to make public overtures to his ex-wife by releasing their text messages. To sell records. Rather than, you know, pick up the phone and give her a call?
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This article originally appeared on The Debrief.