In case you aren't up to speed on your "Blurred Lines" drama, the song isn't just problematic for being "kind of rapey." It's also problematic for being kind of a rip-off, at least according to the children of Marvin Gaye, who are threatening to sue Thicke and Pharrell Williams for plagiarizing their father's 1977 song "Got to Give It Up." (Thicke, Williams, and song co-writer Clifford "T.I." Harris filed their own lawsuit to protect themselves from such claims.)
In a deposition, which a judge decided would not remain sealed, Thicke makes a series of revelations, including the fact that he was high on Vicodin and alcohol when the song was written and he didn't actually write it anyway — OK? He just wanted to take credit for it.
"To be honest, that's the only part where — I was high on Vicodin and alcohol when I showed up at the studio. 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."
He was also asked in the deposition to explain why he did indeed mention Marvin Gaye's song in interviews with the press, when explaining to various media outlets how the song came about. (He told GQ, for example: "Pharrell and I were in the studio and I told him that one of my favorite songs of all time was Marvin Gaye's 'Got to Give It Up.' I was like, 'Damn, we should make something like that, something with that groove.'") His explanation: He "thought it would help sell records" and he "had a drug and alcohol problem for the year ... [I] didn't do a sober interview."
i'm no lawyer but i watched a lot of Perry Mason and Matlock didn't he just hand a win to the Gaye family? so are Williams and Harris also liable after all Williams wrote pretty much the whole thing? you can't get away with anything today, and why would they let him be the spokesperson if he didn't contribute i understand front man because he was credited and did majority of the singing and was high to boot, were they using him?
there were a few rebuttal songs and parodies are they to complicit?
