Salon.com: 2013’s catchy song of summer “Blurred Lines” has been at the center of a fraught legal battle in recent months, with Marvin Gaye’s children alleging that Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams plagiarized the song from Gaye’s 1977 hit “Got to Give it Up.” The trial finally kicked off yesterday, with Thicke and Williams arriving in an L.A. federal courtroom to defend their creation. Here’s a look at some of the major developments that brought us to where we are today
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This controversy is completely stupid to me. The two songs have some striking similarities, but in no way the same song. I don’t think that Marvin Gaye’s children have a case, especially since they only own the rights to the sheet music and as is pointed out in the article by Questlove, none of the cord progressions are the same, just some of the instruments. The only reason this case has made it so far is because people do not like the song or Robin Thicke.
I do think that Pharell and Robin Thicke are handling the situation poorly and that it will continue to drag out because of their poor attitudes and bad behavior. Trying to to pin the entirety of the songs creation on Pharell and drugs was bad on Robin Thicke’s part and I doubt it would make any judge inclined to dismiss the case. I hope that everyone involved in this mess can come to some sort of reasonable agreement and soon.
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