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what it can do is allow artists to, you know, to be free. we saw with blurred lines that when the gaye family comes for, you know, they feel like you ve infringed on their father s work or, you know, marvin s work, they will be litigious, and in that case it was pretty oven that was, yes, i couldn t hear it in that way in the ed sheeran song, i have to say. i could, though. on the joe budden podcast, they played them side by side, and then they mixed them together, and you can hear similarities. but ed, again, in the courtroom basically said, well, look, like these songs, lots of songs have these chord progressions. you can t penalize everybody. so again, i was torn, ed sheeran s song perfect was the theme music to my wedding. let s get it on was the theme to my honeymoon, so i was torn between who to vote for, but i m happy that ed won. i like his music. there s that. i learned a lot in the last ten seconds. i don t even know if i should follow up on that.
unbelievably frustrated that baseless claims like this are allowed to go to court. these chords are common building blocks used to create music long before let s get it on was written and will be used to make music long after we are all gone. joining us now the host of boston globe today. nice to see you this morning. thank you. this is a big deal. huge deal. what does it mean in the broader context, especially as we, you know when it comes to more lawsuits like this? because this wasn t the first time. no, and what we all need to understand is that a lot of popular music is built on the skeletons of songs past, right? even sampling but what happened here with ed was they thought that the chord progression and the sound of, you know, thinking out loud is the same as let s get it on with marvin gaye. i think what really swayed it is ed performed the song in the courtroom, and i feel like that might even be jury tampering. if you re going to get a concert, it s really h