Pharrell Williams and Robin Thicke have been ordered to pay up. Blurred Lines the mega hit of summer 2013 has been a bone of contention for Marvin Gaye’s family who claimed that the infectious tune was drawn from the archives of the late singer.
Turns out they were right because a jury in California has spoken and what they have to say will cost William and Thicke $7.3 million – the exact amount they owe the Gaye family after they countersued the two songwriters for having the audacity to sue them for daring to think that Blurred Lines was a tinkered interpretation of the Gaye’s 1977 hit Got to Give Up.
Of course it didn’t help that Thicke tried to pass off his misdemeanor to the part of him that he claims was disoriented due to his intake of mind-altering substances. “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 when I actually was by the time, nine months later, it became a huge hit and I wanted credit”.
Well, it looks like his credit has been adjusted to a debit payment which he and his partner-in-crime, Happy crooner, Pharell Williams have to pay in full – and they should be able to do that with ease. Both of them received about $5 million from the song that has now become a thorn in their sides.
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