{"id":96982,"date":"2015-03-06T07:38:01","date_gmt":"2015-03-06T07:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=96982"},"modified":"2015-03-06T07:38:01","modified_gmt":"2015-03-06T07:38:01","slug":"pharrell-denies-blurred-lines-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2015\/03\/pharrell-denies-blurred-lines-claim\/","title":{"rendered":"Pharrell denies Blurred Lines claim"},"content":{"rendered":"
Pharrell Williams has denied copying Marvin Gaye’s Got to Give It Up for the hit single Blurred Lines.<\/p>\n
But the producer and singer agreed he was “channelling… that late-70s feeling” when he co-wrote the song.<\/p>\n
Williams, Robin Thicke and rapper TI are being sued by Gaye’s family over similarities between Gaye’s 1977 song the 2013 hit Blurred Lines.<\/p>\n
In court, Williams said Gaye’s work was not on his mind when he wrote the song, but he later recognised a likeness.<\/p>\n
“Sometimes when you look back on your past work, you see echoes of people.”<\/p>\n
“But that doesn’t mean that’s what you were doing,” Williams testified in court in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n
Williams, Thicke and rapper TI – real name Clifford Harris Jr – all deny copying Got to Give It Up for the song, a number one hit in 2013.<\/p>\n
Expressing his admiration for Gaye, Williams said: “The last thing you want to do as a creator is take something of someone else’s when you love him.”<\/p>\n
“I respect his music beyond words,” he added.<\/p>\n