Robin Thicke's ode to his estranged wife, his seventh studio album, Paula, is a commercial disaster. In its first week, it sold 24,000 copies in the U.S.—that's an almost 87 percent drop from the first-week haul of last year's Blurred Lines (177,000 copies), and even less than Jennifer Lopez's recent A.K.A., which…
P.O.V. stands for point of view. P.O.V. stands for penis (I have one) or vagina (Hillary Crosley of Jezebel, to pick a not at all random example, has one of those). P.O.V. stands for pork or veal, but this column is not about food or getting mad about animals confined to living short lives in boxes. It's about music.
Maybe it's the public begging at awards shows, the entire album he wrote about her, or the new single "Get Her Back," but it seems possible that Robin Thicke might want to get back with his estranged wife, Paula Patton. Just a wild hunch.
