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.
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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What an amazing role mode, i respect this man!
I’m a better movie!
damn….P gave you a HIT and you throwing him under the bus LOL these new niggaz…
Niggaz?
“The nigga that was behind me, I mean, he wasn’t even a nigga, you know?”
So were supposed to believe Thicke was high and drunk whenever the concept for the song was talked about? lol Nice try.
Man I was high and drunk this whole last year so i couldn’t tell you what the fuck your talking about.
psh high on vicodin aint no thing look at this dude tryna use it as a disclaimer.
hahah vicodin nutmeg gets you more fucked!! he should try record on a dose of 25i-nBOME fagget
Pharrell needs to seperate himself from this dude for real. Sk8BOARD was the one who helped revive this drug addicts career. When his first album tanked and Jimmy Iovine was going to dropped him from Interscope. Pharrell and Chad Hugo had their label deal with the company and suggested they work with Robin. They gave his career a boost with the “Evolution Of Robin Thicke” w/ ‘Love You Girl’. #NOLOYALTY
this marvin gaye wanna be watered down wack overrated ma fucka sounds high all his music sounds high and shit the fuck he talking about he has no talent he couldnt be marvin gaye on his worst day u cant be serious hes the reason why r&b is so fucked up right now this talentless clown need go push buggies at walmart
Go Ahead & Hold your breath until you see this multi-millionaire pushing carts at Wal Mart Bruh…… Start now!!
“High” on alcohol.