Report about jury verdict against Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams and for the children of Marvin Gaye about the song "Blurred Lines."
Made for March 12, 2015, but can run for a few days. newsroom.free103point9.org
The Guardian reports that a jury awarded Marvin Gaye s children almost $7.4 million on March 10, determining Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams copied Gaye s 1978 hit Got to Give it Up to make Blurred Lines, the biggest hit song of 2013. Anyone comparing the two tracks can hear the similarities. The jury, though, did not listen to the actual songs, but heard a version of the original Gaye song made from sheet music. Thicke, before the lawsuit, told GQ magazine that one of his favorite songs was Got to Give It Up and that he told Williams that they should write a song with the same groove. Then he said he lied, and didn t have anything to do with writing the song. Surprisingly, several notable musicians and internet writers defended the remake. Tom Petty s keyboardist Benmont Tench tweeted, I disagree with the verdict, I think they took production and arrangement ideas but not the actual song. Michaelangelo Matos writing at Deadspin, quoted legendary critic Lester Bangs to defend the second take: According to one theory, punk rock all goes back to Ritchie Valens s La Bamba. Just consider Valens s three-chord mariachi squawk up in the light of Louie Louie by the Kingsmen, then consider Louie Louie in the light of You Really Got Me by the Kinks, then You Really Got Me in the light of No Fun by the Stooges, then No Fun in the light of Blitzkrieg Bop by the Ramones, and finally note that Blitzkrieg Bop sounds a lot like La Bamba.' Still, hearing even faux copies of the songs, they sound awfully similar. The jury up there, they didn t have to go our way, Nona Gaye, Marvin Gaye s daughter, said after the verdict. They copied Got to Give it Up and [the jury] heard it! Which was very important. They heard it, you know. It wasn t just us.
Blurred Lines Verdict
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March 12, 2015
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