It looks like the lines of success and failure truly have blurred for R&B’s great white hope and son of Canadian entertainer Allen Thicke, Robin Thicke.
Spearheaded by the title track single ‘Blurred Lines’ featuring Pharrell & T.I. and the Kendrick Lamar assisted ‘Give It 2 U’, Robin’s Blurred Lines LP (2013) proved to be his most successful album to date.
So what could stop a thriving career, wonderful marriage and all the praise and accolades one man could ask for? For Thicke, the age old demon of abuse specifically in the form of self administrated drugs.
Recently the THR got their hands on a copy of Thicke’s transcripts from his deposition, which was spawned after Marvin Gaye‘s estate sued him and all parties involved in the process of making hit Billboard Chart single for allegedly stealing the core elements Gaye’s classic ‘Got to Give It Up’, and it’s clear as day Thicke had been dealing with a lot more then the pressures of stardom as of late.
On writing or creating Blurred Lines:
“Q: Were you present during the creation of ‘Blurred Lines’?
Thicke: I was present. Obviously, I sang it. I had to be there.Q: When the rhythm track was being created, were you there with Pharrell?
Thicke: To be honest, that’s the only part where — I was high on vicodin and alcohol when I showed up at the studio. So my recollection is when we made the song, I thought I wanted — I — I wanted to be more involved than I actually was by the time, nine months later, it became a huge hit and I wanted credit. So I started kind of convincing myself that I was a little more part of it than I was and I — because I didn’t want him — I wanted some credit for this big hit. But the reality is, is that Pharrell had the beat and he wrote almost every single part of the song.”
On why Paula Patton left him:
“I told my wife the truth. That’s why she left me.”
Hopefully, things to get better for him and quick; but until they do check out the visual to the song that started it all after the break!
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