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Pharrell Williams says the controversy surrounding Blurred Lines made him realise some of his songs "catered" to a sexist culture. The singer says at first he didn't understand why some people saw the lyrics as "rapey". But he later realised that "there are men who use the same language when taking advantage of a woman". Blurred Lines was criticised by some who claimed the lyrics referred to non-consensual sex. It […]
A judge in the US has dismissed a copyright case against Jay Z and Timbaland over his track Big Pimpin'. The rapper was accused of not getting permission to use a flute sample from a track written by an Egyptian composer called Baligh Hamdi in 1957. His nephew and heir, Osama Ahmed Fahmy, claimed they didn't ask to combine his uncle's song with the "vulgar" lyrics of Big Pimpin', released […]
A judge has trimmed more than $1m (£639,000) from the damages Pharrell Williams was ordered to pay after the Blurred Lines copyright trial. The case revolved around the question of whether Williams and his co-writer Robin Thicke had copied Marvin Gaye's 1977 hit Got To Give It Up. In March, a jury ruled that they had, and awarded Gaye's family $7.3m in damages. But US District Judge John A Kronstadt […]
Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars have given The Gap Band a writing credit on their huge hit Uptown Funk, due to its similarities with their 1979 track Oops Up Side Your Head. Uptown Funk, which topped the UK chart for seven weeks and the US chart for 14, originally had six songwriters. The five writers of The Gap Band's hit were added earlier this week, according to RCA documents seen […]
Marvin Gaye's family want to stop sales of Blurred Lines, after a court ruled it copied one of the R&B star's hit songs. Gaye's children have filed an injunction to prevent the copying, distribution and performance of Robin Thicke, TI and Pharrell's 2013 track. Last week, a jury said the performers had based elements of their single on the 1977 hit Got to Give It Up. Pharrell and Thicke were […]
A US judge has ruled that a trial should settle a dispute over whether Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams' hit Blurred Lines copied elements of Marvin Gaye's Got to Give It Up. Federal Judge John Kronstadt denied a request from Thicke and Williams to reject the plagiarism claims that were filed by Gaye's family last year. He said a jury must now decide "the intrinsic similarity of the works". The […]
Beyoncé is in the running for eight prizes at the MTV Video Music Awards including video of the year, best female and best choreography. Her song Drunk in Love, performed alongside husband Jay-Z, is up against rivals including Pharrell Williams' Happy for best video. Rappers Eminem and Iggy Azalea scooped seven nods apiece in key categories including best male and female. The awards ceremony takes place in Inglewood, California, on […]
Pharrell Williams has taken home two gongs at the BET Awards in Los Angeles. The rapper was named best R&B artist and also took home the award for video of the year for Happy at Sunday night's ceremony. Nicki Minaj claimed the title of the best female hip-hop artist for the fifth year in a row with Jay Z and Beyoncé's Drunk In Love winning the award for the best […]
Robin Thicke's controversial hit single Blurred Lines has been named the UK's most downloaded song of all time. The song has sold 1.54 million copies since it was released last May, despite criticisms of its explicit lyrics. About 20 university student unions banned the track, saying it promoted "date rape culture", an accusation Thicke consistently denied. Compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC), the chart marked 10 years of legal […]
