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Robin Thicke "Blurred Lines" (1 Viewer)

mquinnjr said:
Not as shocking as I initially thought it would be.
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"Q: In your view, what holds 'Blurred Lines' together throughout the different sections?

Williams: What holds it together?

Q: Yeah.

Williams: Robin Thicke's voice.

Q: Does the bass line and the keyboard hold the songs together through the different sections?

A: No

Q: Why not?

A: Because it's the white man singing soulfully and we, unfortunately, in this country don't get enough — we don't get to hear that as often, so we get excited by it when the mainstream gives that a shot. But there's a lot of incredibly talented white folk with really soulful vocals, so when we're able to give them a shot — and when I say 'we,' I mean like as in the public gives them a shot to be heard, then you hear the Justin Timberlakes and you hear the Christina Aguileras and you hear, you know, all of these masterful voices that have just been given, you know, an opportunity to be heard because they're doing something different."
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Attorney: Now imagine he was black.

Williams: We wouldn't have made as much money.

 
interesting deposition

Robin Thicke Admits He Didnt Write Blurred Lines, Jealous That Pharrell Did

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by Roger Friedman - September 15, 2014 3:33 pm

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The Hollywood Reporter refuses to credit this site for any stories. But I will ignore that this time. Eriq Gardner has gotten a copy of Robin Thickes deposition in his Marvin Gaye copyright case. Its devastating. For one thing, Thicke sounds either drunk or high during the deposition. He admits that he was stoned for every interview gave in 2013.

He also admits: After making six albums that I wrote and produced myself, the biggest hit of my career was written and produced by somebody else and I was jealous and wanted some of the credit.

Blurred Lines was in fact written by Pharrell Williams. Thicke wasnt even in the room when it was being done. He lied through every interview he ever gave on the subject. Now it all comes out. He admits to Marvin Gaye being his hero, to owning Gayes greatest hits, Whats Going On and most interestingly, Here My Dear, the album Gaye wrote about his divorce from Anna Gordy.

Blurred Lines, says Marvin Gayes heirs, is a rip off of Got to Give it Up. I think theyre right. Indeed, Ive found many Robin Thicke songs that are knock offs of Marvin Gayes work.

Thicke says of Pharrell: He made it [blurred Lines] without me. I was lucky to be in the room.

Thicke told the lawyer in this deposition that basically hes a liar, and lies a lot.

Question: Do you pick and choose when to tell the truth?

Answer: Absolutely. Thats why my wife left me.

Thicke says in the interview that hes been sober for two months, but that his sobriety extends just to Vicodin. Hes still drinking but he says hes not drunk in the deposition.

Mostly this is a sad story about an idiot who was raised in Hollywood and should have known better. About a lot of things. He now comes off as pathetic. Without Pharrell, Thickes current album stinks. With Pharrell, he managed to rip off Marvin Gaye. All he had to do was get a license for Got to Give It Up and say the song was sampled. Instead, he invented a story about how Blurred Lines was written. The whole thing has snowballed into a disaster.

 
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Oof. That's a tough verdict with a lot of precedential issues for the music industry. I would love to review some of the trial transcripts.

 
Aerial Assault said:
Oof. That's a tough verdict with a lot of precedential issues for the music industry. I would love to review some of the trial transcripts.
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If you're interested apparently the plaintiffs (Thicke & Farrell) even got the judge to give them a favorable ruling on using just the sheet music filing instead of the whole song and all the key elements of it, which was essentially new law out of thin air and should have made it a lot tougher for the Gaye family to win. Even with a major handicap they pulled it off.

 
SaintsInDome2006 said:
Aerial Assault said:
Oof. That's a tough verdict with a lot of precedential issues for the music industry. I would love to review some of the trial transcripts.
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If you're interested apparently the plaintiffs (Thicke & Farrell) even got the judge to give them a favorable ruling on using just the sheet music filing instead of the whole song and all the key elements of it, which was essentially new law out of thin air and should have made it a lot tougher for the Gaye family to win. Even with a major handicap they pulled it off.
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Right, thanks; I did know that (about the only substantive legal item I knew about the trial) and found it extremely interesting. (The Gaye estate representatives were the plaintiffs BTW, and Thicke and Williams the defendants, unless there was some sort of strange procedural quirk that reversed the posture.) I know the judge fairly well but I have no idea what went into that ruling. Could tee up a Ninth Circuit appeal, though. I sort of doubt that celebrities like Thicke and particularly Williams (whose rising star and "The Voice" gig are *really* tarnished by this verdict) are going to let this sit without appealing.

 
From Blurred Lines to his hot wife leaving him, him going into rehab, having a new album selling like 55 copies, and now this loss? What an epic fall. Btw i listened to the Marvin Gaye song and while similar I don't think they are close enough to lose this lawsuit.

 
Aerial Assault said:
SaintsInDome2006 said:
Aerial Assault said:
Oof. That's a tough verdict with a lot of precedential issues for the music industry. I would love to review some of the trial transcripts.
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If you're interested apparently the plaintiffs (Thicke & Farrell) even got the judge to give them a favorable ruling on using just the sheet music filing instead of the whole song and all the key elements of it, which was essentially new law out of thin air and should have made it a lot tougher for the Gaye family to win. Even with a major handicap they pulled it off.
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Right, thanks; I did know that (about the only substantive legal item I knew about the trial) and found it extremely interesting. (The Gaye estate representatives were the plaintiffs BTW, and Thicke and Williams the defendants, unless there was some sort of strange procedural quirk that reversed the posture.) I know the judge fairly well but I have no idea what went into that ruling. Could tee up a Ninth Circuit appeal, though. I sort of doubt that celebrities like Thicke and particularly Williams (whose rising star and "The Voice" gig are *really* tarnished by this verdict) are going to let this sit without appealing.
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Thicke and Williams filed a DJ action, so they

were the plaintiffs and counter-defendants.

I'm surprised at the verdict, but this seems like the quintessential finding of fact that is nearly impossible to reverse on appeal.

 
shadyridr said:
From Blurred Lines to his hot wife leaving him, him going into rehab, having a new album selling like 55 copies, and now this loss? What an epic fall. Btw i listened to the Marvin Gaye song and while similar I don't think they are close enough to lose this lawsuit.
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if he got to bang Emily (whateverhernameis) then it was all worth it. Hey hey hey.
 
shadyridr said:
From Blurred Lines to his hot wife leaving him, him going into rehab, having a new album selling like 55 copies, and now this loss? What an epic fall. Btw i listened to the Marvin Gaye song and while similar I don't think they are close enough to lose this lawsuit.
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It's not the lyrics it's the actual music. Search for the mashups they are right-on.

 
xulf said:
shadyridr said:
From Blurred Lines to his hot wife leaving him, him going into rehab, having a new album selling like 55 copies, and now this loss? What an epic fall. Btw i listened to the Marvin Gaye song and while similar I don't think they are close enough to lose this lawsuit.
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It's not the lyrics it's the actual music. Search for the mashups they are right-on.
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I don't know. They are different enough that they shouldn't have lost the lawsuit. This doesn't feel right to me and I'm a fan of the original.

 
shadyridr said:
From Blurred Lines to his hot wife leaving him, him going into rehab, having a new album selling like 55 copies, and now this loss? What an epic fall. Btw i listened to the Marvin Gaye song and while similar I don't think they are close enough to lose this lawsuit.
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I just ejaculated from all that schadenfreude. Hope we never hear from this tool again. Glad that stupid song is pretty much Milli Vanilli status now, and Major you can cram it up your ###.
 
Ramsay Hunt Experience said:
Aerial Assault said:
SaintsInDome2006 said:
Aerial Assault said:
Oof. That's a tough verdict with a lot of precedential issues for the music industry. I would love to review some of the trial transcripts.
Click to expand...
If you're interested apparently the plaintiffs (Thicke & Farrell) even got the judge to give them a favorable ruling on using just the sheet music filing instead of the whole song and all the key elements of it, which was essentially new law out of thin air and should have made it a lot tougher for the Gaye family to win. Even with a major handicap they pulled it off.
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Right, thanks; I did know that (about the only substantive legal item I knew about the trial) and found it extremely interesting. (The Gaye estate representatives were the plaintiffs BTW, and Thicke and Williams the defendants, unless there was some sort of strange procedural quirk that reversed the posture.) I know the judge fairly well but I have no idea what went into that ruling. Could tee up a Ninth Circuit appeal, though. I sort of doubt that celebrities like Thicke and particularly Williams (whose rising star and "The Voice" gig are *really* tarnished by this verdict) are going to let this sit without appealing.
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Thicke and Williams filed a DJ action, so they

were the plaintiffs and counter-defendants.

I'm surprised at the verdict, but this seems like the quintessential finding of fact that is nearly impossible to reverse on appeal.
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Got it, thanks, as to the declaratory judgment.

I don't know everything that went into the decision to allow (essentially) a reproduction of the song to be used in court instead of the original for comparison purposes, but my point was that that's going to be grounds for appeal right there if Thicke and Williams want to drag things out further.

 
McGarnicle said:
shadyridr said:
From Blurred Lines to his hot wife leaving him, him going into rehab, having a new album selling like 55 copies, and now this loss? What an epic fall. Btw i listened to the Marvin Gaye song and while similar I don't think they are close enough to lose this lawsuit.
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I just ejaculated from all that schadenfreude. Hope we never hear from this tool again. Glad that stupid song is pretty much Milli Vanilli status now, and Major you can cram it up your ###.
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you are missing the point. It's not the song that was so great, it was the video.
 
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