Yesterday (Sept. 15), there was a big shake up in Robin Thicke's camp when his deposition from the "Blurred Lines"/Marvin Gaye "Got To Give It Up" lawsuit was released to the public. Now, his lawyers are firing back saying the release of the testimony is just a pawn in the Gaye kids' case.
In the deposition, Thicke admitted that he had no real part in writing his 2013 smash hit, lied to the media repeatedly and was high on Vicodin for most of last year and the recording of "Blurred Lines."
"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 to be more involved than I actually was by the time, nine months later, it became a huge hit and I wanted credit," Thicke said in his testimony under legal oath. "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."
Now, Thicke's lawyers are claiming that the release of this embarrassing bit of personal information and the media's obvious latching to this story is exactly what his opponents wanted, saying this bit of news is a red herring in the copyright case.
"Robin's moment of personal vulnerability is being exploited in the hope of diverting attention from the obvious weakness of their legal claim," Thicke's attorney Howard King said in a statement to Billboard.
The heart of the Gaye's legal claim is that "Blurred Lines" borrowed heavily from Marvin Gaye's 1977 single "Got To Give It Up." The case is ongoing and set to go to court in February 2015.
