Marvin Gaye's family is now claiming that Robin Thicke has blatantly copied their father multiple times

By Marah Eakin | August 22, 2013 | 6:20pm

Aux Features Music

Marvin Gaye's family is now claiming that Robin Thicke has blatantly copied their father multiple times

Introducing Endless Mode: A New Games & Anime Site from Paste

Read our announcement | See the 10 Best Games of 2025 (So Far)

Marvin Gaye’s family has already threatened legal action against the “Blurred Lines” dudes, but now Gaye’s son is telling TMZ he’s pretty sure that Robin Thicke has ripped off his dad multiple times. Marvin Gaye III said, “If you listen to the music… anyone will see the similarities clearly between what my father does and what Robin Thicke has been trying to do.” Gaye says Thicke’s style-lifting disrespects the legacy of his father, as well as that of the whole Gaye family.

It’s worth noting here that the long-deceased Gaye is listed as a songwriter on one of Thicke’s songs, “Million Dolla Baby,” off 2009’s Sex Therapy, whose liner notes read, “contains interpolations from the composition ‘Trouble Man,’”—a song Gaye released in 1972. As Spin notes, that doesn’t constitute theft, especially if the Gaye clan is receiving songwriting royalties for the track. Still, as Gaye III told TMZ, “There’s a way to do business and a way not to do business and we’re not happy about the way he’s doing business.”