Of course she did. It was the same exact song redone by Whitney. Not the case with Blurred Lines.
What's wrong with this white boy? Robin Thicke Sues Marvin Gaye's Family.
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Wrong. There was no sampling done at all.
Reason # 96758493903028543849054040938348934043038 why they should never be given out in tha 1st place.it looks like someone wants their black card taken away..
Niggaz always giving them passes and get mad when they act like a cac.
Respect? So they should pay the Gaye estate for something that grooves like Got To Give It Up but nothing was ever sampled or recreated to sound exactly like Got To Give It Up?
Sounds like the Gaye estate wants to capitalize on someone else's success! Where's their respect? Sounds like greed to me!
It looks like a lot of you are jumping on the bandwagon just because of a lawsuit. But hmmmm... seems I have seen NO ONE mention Marvin Gaye BEFORE the lawsuit.
Post a link to your post if you did, or it didn't happen.
I Hope This Makes You Feel Better
http://www.bgol.us/board/showthread.php?t=738949&highlight=Blurred+Lines
http://www.bgol.us/board/showthread.php?t=738949&highlight=Blurred+Lines
It was a remake, I'm sure she did
However, this was no remake.
If This Isn't A Remake, Then What Is It?
What's wrong with bitch ass pharell for cosigning this shit. Pay the family and get off that bullshit. I hate that this fucking vulture is going at the family of one our greatest.
Biz markie and de la soul are sitting back pissed (de la had to relinquish ALL present and future rights to 3feet due to sample issues)
Biz markie and de la soul are sitting back pissed (de la had to relinquish ALL present and future rights to 3feet due to sample issues)
Didn't Pharrell come up with that beat? Robin Thicke admitted he was trying to get that Marvin Gaye sound, but any claims that the music was stolen just won't hold up, its just not similar enough.
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fu k dat... This is marvin's song!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Straight up!!!!
150% c/s!
Now wait a minute... If everyone "pays up" for genre of music to all rappers have to pay the Sugar Hill Gang?
Shows you dont know jack shit about hip hop. Chic, kool herc, and grandmaster caz (he wrote the song) should get paid.
Thicke's song sounds like it was inspired by Gaye's song. I don't think inspiration requires payment.
There aren't too many songs that are completely orginal. Musicians, singers, producers, artists, etc...are inspired by others who were/are in the same busness.
I don't see this like the Vanilla Ice"Ice Ice Baby/Queen & Bowie "Under Pressure" scenario which was clearly the same beat.
Blurred Lines and Got To Give It Up are similar in the way they sound, but doesn't come off (to me at least) as a complete rip off.
There aren't too many songs that are completely orginal. Musicians, singers, producers, artists, etc...are inspired by others who were/are in the same busness.
I don't see this like the Vanilla Ice"Ice Ice Baby/Queen & Bowie "Under Pressure" scenario which was clearly the same beat.
Blurred Lines and Got To Give It Up are similar in the way they sound, but doesn't come off (to me at least) as a complete rip off.
Luke released Scarred, Quad City DJ's released The Train, no one was mad at either.
First there was Brown Sugar, then there was Love & Basketball, ok we was a lil mad @ Love and Basketball but life moved on.
Whitney Houston sang "I Will Always Love You" which made people say "Dolly who?"
Peeps should just enjoy music for what it is unless they are just blatantly copying the music, and this is not one of those cases.
The Gaye estate should be happy if their family member's song was used for inspiration and call it a day. The lawsuit wouldn't be necessary if they didn't yap about it.
Robin released a body of work that *may* have taken influence from someone elses. Apple vs Microsoft, Pepsi vs Coke. Unless it is actually infringing, who really cares? It's good music and I accept it as such.
Fuck that half a talent faggot and these coon ass apologist replies. The only good that can come out of this is that Black people start to recognize and stop supporting these vultures -I say that knowing way too many of us think like the above two negroes (or negro impersonators)
Okay, fine, I know nothing about rap but is that the case? Everyone should pay Chic, kool herc, and grandmaster caz???
Sounds like you are getting too emotional about this. You need to listen to the 2 songs and show where they are similar. There is no possible note-for-note comparison. You cannot copywrite the "feel" of a song. Everyone who does not agree with you is not a "coon", sometimes they just have a little more common sense.
Luke released Scarred, Quad City DJ's released The Train, no one was mad at either.
First there was Brown Sugar, then there was Love & Basketball, ok we was a lil mad @ Love and Basketball but life moved on.
Whitney Houston sang "I Will Always Love You" which made people say "Dolly who?"
Peeps should just enjoy music for what it is unless they are just blatantly copying the music, and this is not one of those cases.
The Gaye estate should be happy if their family member's song was used for inspiration and call it a day. The lawsuit wouldn't be necessary if they didn't yap about it.
Robin released a body of work that *may* have taken influence from someone elses. Apple vs Microsoft, Pepsi vs Coke. Unless it is actually infringing, who really cares? It's good music and I accept it as such.
It's clear you're an IDIOT! You really don't know shit about the Music Business!
They were smart enough to not steal Marvin Gaye's Melody other wise it would really be some shit to deal with.
PD
And you sir... are 100% correct...
The saying goes, always be the first one to sue... why cause it automatically puts the other guy on the defensive.
Is it not obvious that they jacked Marvin's song
Not to me and some others.
This is going to be tough to prove.
I don't hear a sample used and without that, Pharrell and Chad shouldn't pay up.
Not to me and some others.
This is going to be tough to prove.
I don't hear a sample used and without that, Pharrell and Chad shouldn't pay up.
I really want to understand all this anger. Exactly what would you say to a judge to get money for Marvin's family from this song? They sampled something? What did they sample??? Are you going to sue for using the same BPM??? What??? You have to come in there with something more than and emotional "That's Marvin's song"! No its not, unless Marvin is writing from the grave.
This dumbass! Instead of saying he was paying homage to a great soul singer's song, he goes and sues the family of Marvin Gaye.
This is another example of a white person thinking they're better than black people.
Just stop supporting them... Period!
Justin threw Janet under the bus but black people still support him.
Paula Deen thinks of you as a ni@&er, but in time, she'll get another TV show black people will watch.
Dog the Bounty expressed his views on his son's girlfriend, but he and the wife got a new show some black watch.
Now this dickhead sues Marvin Gaye's family for no other reason but to protect his pockets and somewhere, at someone's party, they will be playing his music and dancing the night way.
Best way to let them know how you feel is to BOYCOTT
Fuck all the talk, rioting, marches, and soapbox speeches... BOYCOTT!
This is another example of a white person thinking they're better than black people.
Just stop supporting them... Period!
Justin threw Janet under the bus but black people still support him.
Paula Deen thinks of you as a ni@&er, but in time, she'll get another TV show black people will watch.
Dog the Bounty expressed his views on his son's girlfriend, but he and the wife got a new show some black watch.
Now this dickhead sues Marvin Gaye's family for no other reason but to protect his pockets and somewhere, at someone's party, they will be playing his music and dancing the night way.
Best way to let them know how you feel is to BOYCOTT
Fuck all the talk, rioting, marches, and soapbox speeches... BOYCOTT!
This dumbass! Instead of saying he was paying homage to a great soul singer's song, he goes and sues the family of Marvin Gaye.
This is another example of a white person thinking they're better than black people.
Just stop supporting them... Period!
Justin threw Janet under the bus but black people still support him.
Paula Deen thinks of you as a ni@&er, but in time, she'll get another TV show black people will watch.
Dog the Bounty expressed his views on his son's girlfriend, but he and the wife got a new show some black watch.
Now this dickhead sues Marvin Gaye's family for no other reason but to protect his pockets and somewhere, at someone's party, they will be playing his music and dancing the night way.
Best way to let them know how you feel is to BOYCOTT
Fuck all the talk, rioting, marches, and soapbox speeches... BOYCOTT!
He sued them because they were about to sue him. That forces them to prove he copied the song. Its just business.
Here is the way it would go otherwise...
Marvin's family sues Thicke and/or Pharrell and drags them into court. Robin loses money showing up for court appointments until finally he gives in and pays them to go away. Instead, he took the opposite approach and sued them first. Now its on Marvin's family to make the case go away.
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Music plagiarism is the use or close imitation of another author's music while representing it as one's own original work. Plagiarism in music now occurs in two contexts—with a musical idea (that is, a melody or motif) or sampling (taking a portion of one sound recording and reusing it in a different song). For a legal history of the latter see sampling.
Any music that follows rules of a musical scale is limited by the ability to use a small number of notes. The seven-note diatonic scale is the foundation of the European musical tradition.
No artist denies the existence of, and relation between, musical genres. In addition, all forms of music can be said to include patterns. Algorithms (or, at the very least, formal sets of rules) have been used to compose music for centuries; the procedures used to plot voice-leading in Western counterpoint, for example, can often be reduced to algorithmic determinacy.
For these reasons, accidental or "unconscious" plagiarism is possible. As well, some artists abandon the stigma of plagiarism altogether. Composer Dmitri Shostakovich perhaps commented sarcastically on the issue of musical plagiarism with his use of "We Wish You a Merry Christmas," an instantly recognizable tune, in his Prelude No. 15 in D Flat, Op. 87.[1]
According to U.S. copyright law, in the absence of a confession, musicians who accuse others of stealing their work must prove "access"—the alleged plagiarizer must have heard the song—and "similarity"—the songs must share unique musical components.[2] though it is difficult to come to a definition of what is "similarity".
Even if a piece of music is in the public domain and thus not protected by copyright, it may still be plagiarism to copy a portion (or all) of it without attribution. There are many changes in the creation, content, dissemination and consumption of popular music in the 21st century.
Listen starting at 30 - 45 seconds.
Any music that follows rules of a musical scale is limited by the ability to use a small number of notes. The seven-note diatonic scale is the foundation of the European musical tradition.
No artist denies the existence of, and relation between, musical genres. In addition, all forms of music can be said to include patterns. Algorithms (or, at the very least, formal sets of rules) have been used to compose music for centuries; the procedures used to plot voice-leading in Western counterpoint, for example, can often be reduced to algorithmic determinacy.
For these reasons, accidental or "unconscious" plagiarism is possible. As well, some artists abandon the stigma of plagiarism altogether. Composer Dmitri Shostakovich perhaps commented sarcastically on the issue of musical plagiarism with his use of "We Wish You a Merry Christmas," an instantly recognizable tune, in his Prelude No. 15 in D Flat, Op. 87.[1]
According to U.S. copyright law, in the absence of a confession, musicians who accuse others of stealing their work must prove "access"—the alleged plagiarizer must have heard the song—and "similarity"—the songs must share unique musical components.[2] though it is difficult to come to a definition of what is "similarity".
Even if a piece of music is in the public domain and thus not protected by copyright, it may still be plagiarism to copy a portion (or all) of it without attribution. There are many changes in the creation, content, dissemination and consumption of popular music in the 21st century.
Listen starting at 30 - 45 seconds.
CACs doing what CACs do. They are always trying to rewrite history. That shit sounds JUST LIKE Got To Give It Up and anybody that knows both songs would think so.
You are living in the land of the idiots if you think it sounds JUST LIKE Got to Give it Up.
And I swear all you black folks swear every single thing in America is a race card. Nevermind that two other Black people were also featured in the song...
Just like someone else said... before the lawsuit the song was the shit, now you think it's some shit. Always a CAC this and CAC that, but nevermind that Pharrell is probably WORTH MORE than Robin Thicke and no one is naming him or T.I in their complaints, at least make your argument complete, otherwise you look like you're just race-baiting.
Okay, so the song fails the "musical idea" test since there is no identical melody or motif, and it fails the "sampling" test, since nothing was sampled. So based on your information, the only thing left is the artist admitting to copying someone else's music. In the video Robin admits to trying to capture the "feel" of a Marvin Gaye tune. Is that enough to pay his family for Plagerism? Of course it is up to the courts to decide but I see nothing here to sue for. Besides, isn't Marvin's family getting enough considering THEY did not work for any of it?
