In a stunning legal tactic that would make even Alicia Florick raise a perfectly manicured eyebrow, Robin Thicke has denied claims that he plagiarised Marvin Gaye for his biggest, rapiest hit ‘Blurred Lines’. Not because the work itself is one of artistic originality, but because he didn’t actually write it. Because he was high.
Today the Hollywood Reporter has published the full transcript of his deposition, and if you still admired his creative genius after lines like ‘you want to hug me/ what rhymes with hug me (p.s., Robin – ‘you want to slug me’ fits quite well), well, prepare to be shocked;
Q: Were you present during the creation of “Blurred Lines”?
Thicke: I was present. Obviously, I sang it. I had to be there.
Q: When the rhythm track was being created, were you there with Pharrell?
Thicke: To be honest, that’s the only part where—I was high on Vicodin and alcohol when I showed up at the studio. So my recollection is when we made the song, I thought I wanted—I —I wanted to be more involved than I actually was by the time, nine months later, it became a huge hit and I wanted credit. So I started kind of convincing myself that I was a little more part of it than I was and I—because I didn’t want him—I wanted some credit for this big hit. But the reality is, is that Pharrell had the beat and he wrote almost every single part of the song.
He later said he was not sober for a single interview in 2013. The greatest mystery that remains is if he was sober when he thought this was a good idea;
Dontcha just imagine Billy Ray Cyrus and Alan Thicke getting together to say, "what are we going to do about the kids?"
The claim made by Marvin Gaye’s estate is that the song bears a striking resemblance to Marvin Gay’s 1977 classic “Got To Give It Up’.
Have a listen to them both. What’s your call?
