In Thicke’s deposition, he makes numerous references to his alcohol and drug abuse, at one pointing stating flat out, “With all due respect, I was high and drunk every time I did an interview past year”.
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In fact, he says he was “high and drunk every time” he did an interview that year, according to a videotaped deposition obtained and published exclusively on Saturday by The Hollywood Reporter. Having sensationally split with his partner of a gazillion years for a model 18 years younger, it has now been revealed that the pop douche performed every media interview “high and drunk” for a year.
The depositions were taken head of the plagiarism trial which ended in March this year when a jury decided that Thicke and collaborator Pharrell Williams had “ripped off” Marvin Gaye’s track “Got To Give It Up” for their 2013 hit.
“Do you consider yourself an honest person”, Thicke was asked during his April 23, 2014 deposition.
“I know the difference between inspiration and theft”, he told the Times. Also, we finally get the producer’s full withering pull quote comparing the similarities between “Blurred Lines” and Gaye’s “Got to Give It Up” to swatches of fabric: “The truth of the matter is silk and rayon are two different things”.
Asked, for example, which chords are used in bluegrass songs, he replied, “I’m not a teacher”.
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“I see when people say they feel that, I understand that”. When asked to name two musical notes and their duration, he replied, “I’m not comfortable with this…” Pharrell also disputed the notion that he went into the studio with the intent to mimic Gaye’s style. As for claims he had made in an older interview that he was fully involved in the songwriting process and that he had set out to create a song with a “Marvin Gaye feel” to it, he says that he was making up stuff so he could make himself look better. A judge later reduced the amount to $5.4 million.
