And am sure this happens quite a lot in the music industry. Just think if he can do it to someone as big as Pharrell Williams of all people, what could they do to unknown writers?
Anyways props to Pharrell for being graceful during the whole thing.
you need to sit your attention-seeking shady-ass behind on your damn seat and quit it with tired try-hard attempts at somehow linking this story with race
For example, when Richard Busch, attorney for the Gayes, attempted to play the mash-up for Thicke's ears, the singer begged him to stop. "It's so hard to listen to it," said Thicke, referencing a clash between major and minor chords. "It's like nails on a f—ing chalkboard... This is [like] Stanley Kubrick's movie Clockwork Orange. Where he has to sit there and watch... Mozart would be rolling in his grave right now."
Not him admitting that the song is awful
WAIT please tell me he didn't just compare it to the Clockwork Orange scene where the man is forced to watch his wife get raped. How fitting.
A: Because it's the white man singing soulfully and we, unfortunately, in this country don't get enough — we don't get to hear that as often, so we get excited by it when the mainstream gives that a shot. But there's a lot of incredibly talented white folk with really soulful vocals, so when we're able to give them a shot — and when I say 'we,' I mean like as in the public gives them a shot to be heard, then you hear the Justin Timberlakes and you hear the Christina Aguileras and you hear, you know, all of these masterful voices that have just been given, you know, an opportunity to be heard because they're doing something different."
So... he gave Robin credit because he feels this country "needs" more white soul singers?
"This is what happens every day in our industry," said Williams during his own deposition (read in full here). "You know, people are made to look like they have much more authorship in the situation than they actually do. So that's where the embellishment comes in."
you need to sit your attention-seeking shady-ass behind on your damn seat and quit it with tired try-hard attempts at somehow linking this story with race
