Got to Give It Up

[laughs]

And what is it? It could be "Got to Give It Up" by Marvin Gaye.

Oh, yeah.

It could be, I don't know.

songs that Errol Smith or songs that Jimi Hendrix, you felt differently because you could absorb the energy that was in the room.

And so there's a song by Marvin Gaye, who I'm a student of, and it was a song called Got to Give It Up.

I used to go out and

party.

And if you were to take that song and take the vocals out and take the backgrounds out, what you would hear is a crowd.

When you go back and you listen to that song later tonight or tomorrow, if you listen to Got to Give It Up by Marvin Gaye, there's people laughing.

There's this energy that makes you feel like you're actually in the party.

And so I took that and I said, I want that to be what's the bed, the undergirding and the foundation of this is how we do it.

Dean's not the first superstar to face copyright scrutiny.

In a groundbreaking case over a decade ago, Marvin Gaye's family successfully sued Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams, claiming the song Blurred Lines copied Gaye's Got to Give It Up.

More recently, rising star Stella Lefty drew attention on social media for her song Boston, with listeners saying it was reminiscent of Noah Kahan's Stick Season.

Lefty has said that after Kahan's team got in touch, she added a songwriting credit for him.

And he argued there that 1345 Chord sequence is a common building block of music and the jury found in his favor.

But then Pharrell and Robin Thicke's Blurred Lines was found to have infringed Marvin Gaye's Got to Give It Up because of the feel.

And then you have other cases like Sam Smith's Stay With Me, did it infringe Tom Petty's Won't Back Down over the chord progression.

George Harrison's My Sweet Lord was alleged to have infringed He's So Fine.

2015.

Thicke and Farrell found liable for copying Marvin Gaye's Got to Give It Up, $7.4 million.

And this one is controversial, because the gay composition was only protected through a lead sheet.

The sound recording wasn't at issue.

Sue Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams for the song Blurred Lines.

Claiming it copies the song Got To Give It Up.

Question 8.

This is from July 2012.