Date 15/07/2015 - News People
When Miguel realized his spiky guitar riff for Wildheart track "leaves" reminded him of Smashing Pumpkins' 1996 hit "1979," he reached out to the band's mastermind, Billy Corgan, and ended up giving the musician a co-writing credit. The singer told The Associated Press, "Kind of after we finished the song, it was like, 'You know what, this is reminiscent of this song,' so we made sure that they heard it and made sure that it was all good." Miguel felt he needed to be extra careful following the game-changing guilty verdict in the "Blurred Lines" lawsuit, in which Robin Thicke and Pharrell were ordered to pay over $7 million to Marvin Gaye's estate after it was ruled that "Lines" borrowed from Gaye's 1977 classic "Got to Give It Up."
