Gaye Family now suing Pharell for HAPPY.

Indeed.

Who knows.
He has another song on his album where the intro completely mimics Marvin Gaye. I have to find it but it's uncanny the melody of his voice, the chord inflections.

 

hes surely shooting himself in da fot.
another good song and he will be fine

 

Musical artists are hustlers

In the words of Cassidy, 'I can sell RAID to a bug, I'm a hustler homie, I can sell salt to a slug, cuz'

 

lol

 

The first time I heard blurred lines I thought it sounded like got to give it up. Not surprised there is litigation.

 

It's possible he can come back. He still has his R&B audience. All he has to do is chill for a couple of years. Then do the Oprah apology tour and drop a hot album after that. He could get his pop audience back. Women love a player and the public is very forgiving of it's entertainers.

Plus, when they win this thing on appeal, he'll look a whole a lot better.

No, they are very, very talented. People don't realize how much this happens. Song writing can be a very unconscious act. If you're writing any form of popular music, something you have created will sound dangerously like something someone else created.

Oh wait ... did you get me again? Damn!

Loki, what you're hearing is "feel" and rhythm. Neither of which are copyright-able. The melody is different and so are the lyrics. If anything, the verses sound more Prince than Marvin Gaye. But, that's only my opinion.

What has been fact up until now is that you can only copyright lyrics and melody. The reason for that is there really are only 12 notes that you have to work with. that's it. Every song we listen to is based on those same twelve notes (excluding other cultures tuning I think). Songwriters are bound to trip over one another and do so quite often.

What makes a song different is what you do with it melodically and lyrically. Here is another video that points out how so many songs are really just the same progression. As a matter of fact, most huge songs are based off of just four chords. Just ... 4 ... chords.

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Now that you have heard that, keep something very important in mind, Blurred Lines and Got To Give It Up doesn't even have that much in common.

 

After cutting that check for $7 mil+, stay tuned for his follow-up hit, "Somber".

 

They'll never get the chance to cash it. But, I could be wrong. Time will tell. Pharell and Thicke might just settle out of court and keep it moving.

 

Check this 1 min clip out...

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That's crazy!!

 

I saw the similarity, but I always felt like it was a bit different, like a note or two different, just enough to prevent it from being a direct lift of the tune.

 

Like I had mentioned, Blurred Lines was a notch faster in tempo than Got To Give It Up. Just a notch. I am sure Blurred Lines was inspired by Got To Give It Up.

 

I keep telling people they are two different songs with two different melodies.
People here don't believe me.

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you're talking about the song he ripped off from Gaye's 'trouble man'.

 

They might've had a case for Blurred Lines but they're reaching with Happy. Similar rhythm but everything else is different.

 

It's a straight rip off,dude.

 

No, it's not. Different melody, different lyrics, the bass lines are completely different. And if the bass lines are doing a different progression, then so are the chords because the bass line follows the chords.