Blasted, Blurred and Busted…The Thicke Files

A major shout out to The Hollywood Reporter for doing what they do best!! The legendary publication got its hands on transcripts of Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams from their preemptive lawsuit against Marvin Gaye’s children, who threatened to sue over the sonic similarities between Thicke and Williams’ “Blurred Lines” and Gaye’s “Got To Give It Up.” In his testimony, Thicke admits that he was “high on Vicodin and alcohol” during the creation of the song, and that he received undue credit. There are tons of amazing tidbits from the transcripts. Thicke says he “didn’t do a sober interview” in 2013. When asked if Gaye was an influence, Williams replied, “He’s an Aries. I respect him.”

Oh, but wait, there’s more from the Hollywood Reporter‘s piece:

The singer allegedly admitted while under oath that after writing and producing six albums himself, “I was jealous and I wanted some of the credit… I tried to take credit for it later because (Williams) wrote the whole thing pretty much by himself and I was envious of that.”

Thicke soon gets more specific:

“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.”

Thicke says he was just “lucky enough to be in the room” when Williams wrote the song.

In other publisher interviews Thicke made a range of comments from, “one of my favorite songs of all time was Marvin Gaye’s ‘Got to Give It Up.’ I was like, ‘Damn, we should make something like that, something with that groove.’ Then he started playing a little something and we literally wrote the song in about a half hour and recorded it to why Williams let Thicke take the credit…” it’s just business as usual” according to him.

In a released statement Marvin Gaye’s family members say: Thicke, for his part, now claims he made all of his statements while drunk or on drugs, none of them true, and he mentioned Marvin Gaye only to sell records. He also actually testified that he is not an honest person. This complete contempt for the judicial system, and their obligations to tell the truth, can best be summed up by Thicke’s ultimate admission, while under oath, that he “[does not] give a f**k” about this litigation. The case is set to go to trial in February 2015.

Robin Thicke’s ode to his estranged wife, his seventh studio album, Paula, is more of a brick than his first album and his old dreadlocks. In my head, I hear Amy Winehouse sing about REHAB, so Robin…it’s time to go…go…go! Get well and bring back that guy that brought the “magic” not so long ago.

I’ll do a T.I. and quietly “Tip” on out of the room.

Disclaimer: I love me some Robin Thicke like ketchup on a curly fry. I am not hating, just sharing some truth.