“I still have nightmares about it, and I made them hide it on my Vevo page.”

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Speaking generally about early songs, Tuner later said,  Sometimes it’s tough to get through one of the old ones live," and "There were a few lyrics that went by where I thought [wincing noise], 'Don't know what you were thinking there. Probably leave that one out now.'"

Of the accusations about the song being "rape-y," Thicke told The New York Times, "Pharrell and I have never and would never write a song with any negative connotation like that. I think the song on its own — I don’t think that would have existed. Once the video came out, that changed the conversation." 

Mostly, it seemed his frustration over the song blowing up was less about the song itself and more about the timing. 'There comes a point when you can either be proud of what you’ve accomplished or you can still sit back and be sour over it," he said. "My sour side was never because of the music itself, it was because I thought we should have gotten that kind of recognition earlier on in our career." But: "When lighting strikes, it strikes. There’s no way you can recreate it or bottle it up. Without that album, who knows if we’d still be making records today."