This Wednesday, a jury in California decided that songwriters Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams completely ripped off Marvin Gaye with their song “Blurred Lines,” and ordered the two to fork over $7.3 million to the Gaye family.
From Gawker:
Please, recall: In 2013, Thicke and Williams preemptively sued Gaye’s children to force the court into deciding whether or not “Blurred Lines,” a masterfully obnoxious second-rate edition of Gaye’s “Got to Give It Up,” was an infringement on the 1977 hit. The Gaye family then countersued, for obvious reasons.
Then, Thicke—who had probably the most uncomfortable fall from barely-close-to-grace of any middling child of a famous person in 2014—tried to distance himself from the song, claiming he was “high” when it was written.
Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter back in 2014, Thicke claimed he wasn’t quite in control of all his faculties when the song was being recorded.
“To be honest, that’s the only part where — I was high on vicodin and alcohol when I showed up at the studio,” Thicke said in the interview. “So my recollection is when we made the song, I thought I wanted — I — I wanted to be more involved than I actually was by the time, nine months later, it became a huge hit and I wanted credit. So I started kind of convincing myself that I was a little more part of it than I was and I — because I didn’t want him — I wanted some credit for this big hit. But the reality is, is that Pharrell had the beat and he wrote almost every single part of the song.”
So essentially he’s blaming Pharrell. Anyway, I definitely have to agree with Gawker’s Dayna Evens:
F-ck that song.
(Featured image courtesy of Gawker)
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