“Piece By Piece”
Pharrell Williams is—nicely, let me simply say, he’s a giant motive why Song Exploder exists. He’s a singer, songwriter and producer, and within the 90s, after I first heard the work he was doing with The Neptunes, which was his manufacturing duo with Chad Hugo, it blew my thoughts. It made me wish to know the place these sounds got here from and the place these concepts got here from. Pharrell has won 13 Grammys. He’s been nominated for two Oscars. He’s produced iconic songs for Kendrick Lamar and Britney Spears and Clipse and Gwen Stefani, and so many others. And on his personal, he’s made songs like “Happy,” the large hit for Despicable Me that was the best-selling track of 2014. And now, there’s a film about his life known as Piece by Piece. But it’s an animated Lego movie. For this episode, I talked to Pharrell concerning the title track from Piece By Piece. So arising, you’ll hear how Pharrell constructed the track, together with a primary draft that by no means noticed the sunshine of day. You’ll hear how he first constructed “Piece by Piece” by programming it on his personal with MIDI devices, after which including and changing these components with different musicians, together with the highschool marching band that he used to play in.
You should buy or stream “Piece by Piece” here.
For the Song Exploder episode with Run The Jewels concerning the track “JU$T,” which options backing vocals from Pharrell, click here.
Illustration by Carlos Lerma.
For a transcript of this episode, click here.
Brent Paschke – guitar
Princess Ann High School Fabulous Marching Cavaliers
“Beautiful” – Snoop Dogg that includes Pharrell Williams
The scorpion jacket that Ryan Gosling wears within the film Drive
1977 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am
Logic Pro
Clavichord
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