Idolator
Santogold, Pharrell, And That Guy From The Strokes Sing For Their Shoes
ARTISTS: Julian Casablancas, Pharrell, and Santogold
TITLE: "My Drive-Thru"
WEB DEBUT: June 9, 2008
Posts Tagged “Pharrell”
leak of the day
sit on it
"I had often wondered what it's like to truly be in love, not lust for once. So I decided not to ask what it was like in someone else's shoes or what it was like to sit in their seat. I decided to sketch out my own experiment; the perspective chair." - Pharrell Williams, co-designer of Perspective [Billionaire Boys Club via The Music Slut]
Pharrell Achieves Greatest "Moment Of Zen"
"I had often wondered what it's like to truly be in love, not lust for once. So I decided not to ask what it was like in someone else's shoes or what it was like to sit in their seat. I decided to sketch out my own experiment; the perspective chair." - Pharrell Williams, co-designer of Perspective [Billionaire Boys Club via The Music Slut]
conversing
Once again, artists have come together to promote a common cause, and this time it's a sneaker. Santogold, the refreshing new artist who sounds like Gwen Stefani reacting to M.I.A., has joined Strokes leader Julian Casablancas and renaissance man Pharrell Williams to record a new song/video/Converse ad campaign. Santogold says the final product is "such a Pharrell track," which either means that it's the R&B smash of the summer or an embarrassing trainwreck with noxious jazz keyboards. I would think the presence of Mr. Casablancas would edge things towards the latter possibility, but maybe I just don't have enough faith in Converse.
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Pharrell, Santogold, Julian Casablancas United By Converse
Once again, artists have come together to promote a common cause, and this time it's a sneaker. Santogold, the refreshing new artist who sounds like Gwen Stefani reacting to M.I.A., has joined Strokes leader Julian Casablancas and renaissance man Pharrell Williams to record a new song/video/Converse ad campaign. Santogold says the final product is "such a Pharrell track," which either means that it's the R&B smash of the summer or an embarrassing trainwreck with noxious jazz keyboards. I would think the presence of Mr. Casablancas would edge things towards the latter possibility, but maybe I just don't have enough faith in Converse.
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videodrone
Lindsay Lohan, Kanye West, and a guy dressed up like a giant nose show up in the video for "Everybody Nose," the predictably annoying new single from N*E*R*D. Coked-out potential American Apparel models strike awkward poses for Pharrell as he and his bandmates yell "achoo! achoo!" and get caught in a mosh. Ironically, this track, both musically and lyrically, is meant as more of a critique of club culture than a celebration.
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N*E*R*D Get Their Cobrasnake On
Lindsay Lohan, Kanye West, and a guy dressed up like a giant nose show up in the video for "Everybody Nose," the predictably annoying new single from N*E*R*D. Coked-out potential American Apparel models strike awkward poses for Pharrell as he and his bandmates yell "achoo! achoo!" and get caught in a mosh. Ironically, this track, both musically and lyrically, is meant as more of a critique of club culture than a celebration.
recaps
What We All Missed At Monday Night's Hip-Hop Summit Action Network Awards
• Slightly incongruous attendee George Lucas, there in support of his main squeeze and probably spending the evening mentally toting up that Crystal Skulls money/plotting from his seat on how much more interesting awards shows would be with CGI'd Ewoks and explosions.
• Jim Jones being incoherent.
• Ciara referring to her brain as a "memory stick," while failing to note its maximum read/write speed.
• A casual Friday Pharrell comparing honoree Snoop Dogg to the Redheaded Stranger before noting that we should not condemn the man for his weed intake. (Why on earth would we condemn him for that?)
• Snoop himself torpedoing Pharrell's good intentions by making a rolling papers joke before claiming to be mentoring 2,500 kids by proxy in his after-school football program, because the pimp-turned-televised family man is for the children. [NY Daily News/ Photo: Getty]
Kanye West's summer tour will feature Rihanna, N.E.R.D., and Lupe Fiasco as openers. No word on whether Pharrell will be selling his "music universe-inspired" jewelry collection—a sample is at left—at the shows' merch tables. If that does somehow come to pass, prices for said rings and things start at $2,000, so those people looking to up their "classy" quotient while out on the town might want to bring their high-limit credit cards. [Kanyeuniversecity.com / Songs For Soap]
Speaking of SoHo retail: When I first saw the headline "Pharrell Opens BBC/Ice Cream Store In NYC," I got kind of excited at the idea of heading downtown and sampling a taste of Blue Magic Swirl. Alas, the shop is only selling a "colorful line of clothing and sneakers [that's] a reflection of Pharrell's signature style." Bo-ring. [XXL]
A mere 24 hours after Fox's life-on-Music-Row series Nashville got pulled from its time slot, ABC has given the green light to Limelight, an hourlong drama about performing-arts school students in New York that is "partly inspired by hip-hop producer Pharrell Williams." [Variety]
grumpy young men dept.
Having dropped the downcast, Thom Yorke-freaking single "Us Placers" (see above) on Kanye West's Can't Tell Me Nothing mixtape—cute idea, far from an obvious hit—Lupe Fiasco, Kanye, and Pharrell are trying to get labels hyped for a full album from the trio as "Child Rebel Soldiers," which sounds like a skit that was cut from the M.I.A. album. More »
Lupe Fiasco Is Tired
Having dropped the downcast, Thom Yorke-freaking single "Us Placers" (see above) on Kanye West's Can't Tell Me Nothing mixtape—cute idea, far from an obvious hit—Lupe Fiasco, Kanye, and Pharrell are trying to get labels hyped for a full album from the trio as "Child Rebel Soldiers," which sounds like a skit that was cut from the M.I.A. album. More »
live earth
A new Madonna song, "Hey You", was made available for free today on MSN's site as part of the build-up to Al Gore's Live Earth concert extravaganza. The Pharrell-produced track is not going burn up dance floors anytime soon (think "Toy Soldiers," not "Deeper And Deeper"), but we encourage you to go over there and snag it (it's free, after all) for two reasons: one, every download drops a quarter into the coffers of the Alliance for Climate Protection; and two, someone has to encourage Microsoft now that they've dipped their toe into the MP3-distribution waters, right?
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Madonna Gives It Up To Fight Global Warming
A new Madonna song, "Hey You", was made available for free today on MSN's site as part of the build-up to Al Gore's Live Earth concert extravaganza. The Pharrell-produced track is not going burn up dance floors anytime soon (think "Toy Soldiers," not "Deeper And Deeper"), but we encourage you to go over there and snag it (it's free, after all) for two reasons: one, every download drops a quarter into the coffers of the Alliance for Climate Protection; and two, someone has to encourage Microsoft now that they've dipped their toe into the MP3-distribution waters, right?
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