Robin Thicke ‘Respectfully’ Slaps Marvin Gaye’s Family With A Lawsuit
You know that popular Robin Thicke song, Blurred Lines, that we’re all boppin’ our heads to these days? Yeah, that one. There seems to be a bit of a legal issue with it. This week, Robin Thicke, Pharrell Williams and Clifford Harris, Jr. filed a lawsuit in California federal court against Marvin Gaye‘s family and Bridgeport Music, which owns some of Funkadelic’s compositions. What’s the beef? According to The Hollywood Reporter, at issue are complaints about similarities between “Blurred Lines” and at least two songs. According to the suit,
Plaintiffs, who have the utmost respect for and admiration of Marvin Gaye, Funkadelic and their musical legacies, reluctantly file this action in the face of multiple adverse claims from alleged successors in interest to those artists. Defendants continue to insist that plaintiffs’ massively successful composition, ‘Blurred Lines,’ copies ‘their’ compositions.
The lawsuit continues:
Gaye defendants are claiming ownership of an entire genre, as opposed to a specific work. But there are no similarities between plaintiffs’ composition and those the claimants allege they own, other than commonplace musical elements. Plaintiffs created a hit and did it without copying anyone else’s composition.
Reportedly, Marvin Gaye’s family (the Gayes) and Bridgeport are said to be threatening litigation should the plaintiffs (Robin Thicke, Pharrell Williams and Clifford Harris, Jr.) not pay a monetary settlement. Rather than wait for the lawsuit to proceed, the plaintiffs are going to court to determine the parties’ respective rights and obligations.
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i knew it was coming but not this way…no one can tell me Blurred Lines does not sound like Marvin Gaye’s Give it Up. Every time i hear it i think of Marvin’s song, so why is Robin/pharrell suing the Gayes… Pharrell knew exactly what he was doing as a producer and composer of this song.
Exactly….but I do like Blurred Lines they did a good on the song. Hopefully they can settle this out of court.
I actually thought blurred lines was sampling give it up….it IS very similar.
Blurred Lines uses a familiar sound of Marvin Gaye’s hit but it is not s direct copy of it. Actually, I hear Michael jackson and Prince “sounds” in the track as well. I hope the judge views the case in Thicke’s favor.
what musician has not borrowed music from other musicians? everything today, including music has been influenced by something in the past. for instance, will.i.am, jay z, lil wayne..
2naenae,that is an insane statement you wrote. So Imma assume you are pretty young and cut you some slack.Before hip hop came around for the most part people didn’t use other people’s songs in their songs,it was called stealing,now it’s called sampling.Either way you have to pay to use someone else’s song in your song.Hope you learned something.
2naenae…all three of those artists RELY on other people’s creations to do what they do. Not one of them has a great musical idea in their head. You young folks don’t demand much talent from your icons. Try some rock and roll bands for a change…people playing instruments and actually singing a melody…quite a concept !
When I first heard this song, the first thing that I thought of was “Got to give it up” by Marvin Gaye. If there is a law suit of course he would win over the poor Gaye family.
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