>were turned off by the defendants' testimony. specifically,
>Pharrell claimed that he wasn't thinking about GTGIU when he
>made BL (which on its face sounds ridiculous that he just
>happened to make a song that feels so much like GTGIU w/o
>trying). Pharrell said he had been working on a Miley song
>and some other song and one of those had a Country feel and so
>he was doing a yodeling thing and that's what he was thinking
>when he wrote BL. i don't buy that myself. and Thicke
>admitted that he'd lied about his part in writing the song
>where he'd previously said in an interview outside court that
>he and Pharrell wrote the song together and had tried to
>create something that sounded like GTGIU. during the deps it
>was revealed that Pharrell wrote the song w/o Thicke and
>Thicke made some suggestions but they weren't used b/c
>Pharrell's ideas were better. but the jury also heard how
>much $ Thicke made b/c he has a writing credit on the song
>though he wrote basically none of it. plus i dunno how much
>the jurors may have known about Thicke's shenanigans over the
>last 2 yrs (surely the defense counsel fought to keep that
>stuff out) but if they heard or knew much of that it couldn't
>have helped the defense case, i think.


Yep to all of this^^^^^