Straight from the source:
Most of 2013 was business as usual for Pharrell Williams. You know, make tracks with living legends you call friends (Jay Z, Beyoncé); receive some hero worship from creative spawns like Miley Cyrus and Tyler, the Creator, who grew up on your jams; further cement an already rock-solid legacy as one of the most stylish men on the planet. (He got married in a tartan tux.) Yes, this year was shaping up to be just another year of wearing mascara to the Met Ball one day and working with ex-drug-dealing rapper Pusha T the next. What we didn’t expect was for him to dominate the nation’s collective speaker box the way he did back when Britney was a slave 4 us (2001) and Nelly found it hot in herre (2002). In fact, for this year’s summer anthem, Pharrell’s only competition was Pharrell. Daft Punk’s “Get Lucky” and Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines” duked it out for the top spot and inspired more wedding dance-floor soul claps than “Brick House” and “Play That Funky Music” combined. P’s take on his tandem of 2013 hits? “Both songs are for people who need a break,” he says. “There’s a lot of fucked-up travesty in the world. Sometimes you just need a Hallmark card. Sometimes you just need to shake your ass.”
