u can't rely on your ears for this shit

and considering that based on the sheet music

the key is different, the chord progressions are different...

if you can't reasonably point to what exactly is too similar besides the cowbell and the vibe...

u are making the wrong decision...

i get what you are saying and no this isn't the end of modern music or music in general but it's clearly still the wrong fucking decision...

close enough is not copy infingement...period

u can sit there and look at it the sheet music and see clearly how different it is even if u can't read music...and it's not close enough...it just happens to sound close enough...

if feelings and sensations were hard enough evidence...then yes...a very bad precedent is set and shouldn't be upheld...that's why people are getting hyperbolic bc some people too busy relying on their ears when that sets the bar so fucking low

sure, the song is creatively reliant upon the original...but it took all the needed steps to avoid infringement...

look at the fucking sheet music look at the written differences:

Blurred Lines is 120 beats per minute.
Got To Give It Up is 122 beats per minute.
Both songs feature a syncopated cowbell part and an electric piano (Gaye’s bassline is actually played on a 1976 RMI harmonic synthesiser).
The vocal melodies and lyrics of the songs are very obviously different from one another.
The songs have different chord patterns from each other.
The recordings are in different keys; ‘Blurred Lines’ is in G; ‘Got To Give It Up’ is in A.

it's pretty fucking see0through that the spirit of the song is ripoffish...but that's not the spirit of copyright infringement especially in this industry