Yeah... ... Strip this of all musicality/Thicke's velvety charm and you got something with the maturity of a demented teenaged virgin attempting at pickup based on theoretical structures heavily influenced by pop culture like exhibit A. But, I think in general if you strip music away from lyrics, the resulting poetry is usually underwhelming. Most amateurs begin writing poetry by emulating lyrics, and it's really flat. Music it turns out does most of the heavy lifting in animating the words. I've noticed some of my favorite poets like Tarkovsky and Transtromer suggesting that the most perfect form of art is music, and it's the music of their own work they pay attention to. The more I sit with the idea, I think it's true. What makes music so arresting? It's what goes beyond any intellectualization. Or maybe it's what goes before...