“‘Blurred Lines,’ Robin Thicke’s Summer Anthem, Is Kind of Rapey,” The Daily Beast declared, finding fault with the video and the track’s lyrics, mainly Thicke’s “I know you want.

While that attack dinged - but didn’t derail - the song’s runaway success, the next controversy all but consumed it. Part of “Lines” appeal was a mix of the fresh and the familiar, and for three individuals - Marvin Gaye’s children Nona, Frankie and Marvin III - “Lines” was a little too familiar. The trio sued songwriters Thicke and Pharrell, on the grounds that their creation plagiarized their late father’s Hot 100 No. 1 hit, 1977’s “Got To Give It Up.”Those close to the defense, however, dismissed the entire claim as ludicrous. “The whole controversy is bulls-t,” Tony Maserati, who mixed the song, tells Billboard. “It’s ridiculous to imagine that they would or even think they would. I’m sure, at any point, if I had said ‘this is too similar,’ they would have thought about it and made that technical decision. But it wasn’t plagiarism, so we didn’t.

The song is not the same – bottom line.”A jury, however, disagreed and sided with the Gayes; the verdict was upheld on appeal. When the smoke cleared, the Gayes walked away with close to $5 million for copyright infringement and 50% of future “Lines” royalties.With both controversies safely in the rear-view mirror, Pharrell has recently shared his feelings on the entire saga. “It hurt my feelings, because I would never take anything from anyone,” he said for GQ. “That one set me back.

You can’t copyright a feeling. You can copyright that which is tangible, not the intangible, but that’s what they proved. Because I had the ability to make something feel very similar, they said, ‘You know what? This is wrong. If it feels like it, that’s what it is.’”.

But feelings did play a key role in the producer empathizing with the lyrical controversies, as he told GQ. Though he admittedly, “didn't get it at first,” he soon “realized that there are men who use that same language when taking advantage of a woman, and it doesn't matter that that's not my behavior. Lumberwhack defend the wild game.

Or the way I think about things. It just matters how it affects women. And I was like, 'Got it. ”While the jury is still out - no pun intended - on how the public will remember “Blurred Lines,” its legal legacy has cast a wide shadow over the music business’ operating practice. Already in the few years since the trial, other megahits such as The Chainsmokers’ “Closer,” Ed Sheeran’s “Shape of You” and Lizzo’s “Truth Hurts” have amended to their songwriting credits once rumblings of theft bubbled on social media.

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Splitting the profits beforehand, it seems, beats the threat of multi-million dollar losses and an avalanche of negative press.Thus is the odd fate of “Blurred Lines,” a song whose wild success - it was recently declared of the 2010s - should be the envy of any competitors. But a sea of legal and lyrical backlash has all but ensured that in the halls of record labels, no one wants a “Blurred Lines” on their hands.