Robin Thicke says that he was high and drunk and thus did not write much of his hit 2013 single “Blurred Lines.”
“I was high on Vicodin and alcohol when I showed up at the studio,” he says in a deposition regarding a lawsuit he is facing from the Marvin Gaye estate, according to TMZ.
The late singer’s estate says that Thicke’s “Blurred Lines” used Gaye’s “Got to Give it Up” without permission.
Thicke says that producer Pharrell Williams was the creative force behind the song. “The reality is, is that Pharrell had the beat and he wrote almost every single part of the song,” Thicke says, according to TMZ.
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In 2013, “Blurred Lines” was at the center of legal filings between Pharrell, Robin Thicke and Marvin Gaye’s family. According to The Hollywood Reporter, a lawsuit was filed on behalf of the “Blurred Lines” makers in a California federal court in August 2013. “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,” the lawsuit states. “Defendants continue to insist that plaintiffs’ massively successful composition, ‘Blurred Lines,’ copies ‘their’ compositions.”
The Hollywood Reporter also reported last year that legal action was threatened in the hopes that both the family of Gaye and Bridgeport Music would receive a monetary settlement.
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