--- title: Robin Thicke: Get Her Back Video About Paula Patton description: Text messages featured in the music video hint at what went wrong in his marriage to Paula Patton canonical: https://time.com/2912476/robin-thicke-get-her-back-video/ author: Nolan Feeney article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-06-23T18:00:54.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T08:34:36.068Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Robin Thicke: Get Her Back Video About Paula Patton og:description: Text messages featured in the music video hint at what went wrong in his marriage to Paula Patton og:url: https://time.com/2912476/robin-thicke-get-her-back-video/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2ae2dfb7f805bb8d/698698d455a8598496a817dc/robin-thicke.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Singer Robin Thicke performs onstage during the 2014 Billboard Music Awards at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on May 18, 2014 in Las Vegas. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Robin Thicke: Get Her Back Video About Paula Patton twitter:description: Text messages featured in the music video hint at what went wrong in his marriage to Paula Patton twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2ae2dfb7f805bb8d/698698d455a8598496a817dc/robin-thicke.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Robin Thicke Tries to 'Get Her Back' in New Video About Estranged Wife  by [Nolan Feeney](https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Jun 23, 2014 6:00 PM UTC  Singer Robin Thicke performs onstage during the 2014 Billboard Music Awards at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on May 18, 2014 in Las Vegas. Singer Robin Thicke performs onstage during the 2014 Billboard Music Awards at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on May 18, 2014 in Las Vegas.Kevin Mazur—Billboard Awards/WireImage  by [Nolan Feeney](https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Jun 23, 2014 6:00 PM UTC Most celebrities like to work out their marital troubles away from the spotlight. Robin Thicke is not one of those celebrities. In fact, he prefers the opposite: Since the “Blurred Lines” singer and his wife, Paula Patton, separated in February of this year, he’s written an entire album—called _Paula—_about trying to repair their relationship, and he even got down on his knees to perform the new song “Get Her Back” at the Billboard Music Awards. In the track’s just-released music video, a bloody, beat-up Thicke admits to being an inattentive lover and vows to do whatever he can to make things right. Even more revealing, however, are the text messages—perhaps some real ones sent between Thicke and Patton—that pop up on screen and spell out all the ways Thicke dropped the ball in the husband game. “You drink too much,” says one. “You embarrassed me,” reads another. But the most interesting detail of all reveals what Patton thinks of Thicke’s grand, public gestures. “I wrote a whole album about you,” reads one text message. 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