Pharrell Williams

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Rocking Adidas Originals with Pharrell Williams and Rita Ora (Karim Huu Do, dir.)

Product Placement is so 2014. Branded content with top-notch celebs and production quality is 2015. Adidas starts it off right with this spot for their Originals line, focusing on musicians Pharrell Williams and Rita Ora, athletes David Beckham and Daniel Lillard, and those legendary three-striped Superstar sneaker that first inspired Run-D.M.C. nearly 30 years ago.

Pretty slick, especially if it's just a warm-up to what we should expect when Kanye starts to image his Yeezus x Adidas line...

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God Only Knows If This Is The Most Star Studded Video Ever

Take one of the greatest songs ever and invite Pharrell Williams, Emeli Sande, Elton John, Lorde, Chris Martin, Florence Welch, Kylie Minogue, Stevie Wonder, Brian May, Jake Bugg, One Direction, Chrissie Hynde, Jamie Cullum, Dave Grohl, Sam Smith, and many others to join songwriter Brian Wilson in the most epic group since "We Are The World." The fact its coupled to an ambitious and stylish video directed by Francois Rousselet, of Jonas & Francois, that includes every single performer in uniquely appropriate set-ups makes it all the better — and yes, there's a charitable tie-in.

PS: How is Bono not in this??

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Pharrell Williams f/ Daft Punk "Gust Of Wind" (Edgar Wright, dir.)

Welcome to Fall Fest, as hosted by Pharrell Williams, Daft Punk and film director Edgar Wright. Despite the intergallactic leanings of all involved, things are kept fairly natural as they pay homage to the breeziest element. That's not to say they entirely stay earthbound: We have a troupe of ribbon dancers who could have blown in from the Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon remake and the (forgive the pun, please) very rocking Daft Punk cameo takes flight as well.

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Pharrell Williams f/ Miley Cyrus "Come Get It Bae" (Luis Cerveró, dir.)

It's likely impossible for Pharrell Williams and Miley Cyrus to make a video that's not sexy on some level — we're talking about the people responsible for "Blurred Lines" and "We Can't Stop," respectively — but "Come Get It Bae" is more like a high-energy version of John Legend's "You And I" video, celebrating all the many "flavors" of women with a perfect edit and a even a little handheld Bolex

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Pharrell Williams "Marilyn Monroe" (Luis Cerveró, dir.)

The secret to his happiness might be the hat. Or, maybe it's allowing himself to dream all day and all night about beautiful women. Lucky for Pharrell, he's got the means to fill his video with girls girls girls and lots of surreal style via elaborate set-pieces orchestrated by Luis Cerveró (of CANADA fame).

It is fabulous.

And yes, that's a Kelly Osbourne cameo.

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Pharrell Williams "Happy" - The Tears, The No Music Version, and The Girl Walk Comparison

This week learned several about Pharrell Williams and the music video "Happy"..

1. The worldwide reaction to the video moves him so much that it actually makes him cry. Yes, Oprah is involved here, and she tends to make lots of people cry, but still... The music video and what happened with it moved him to tears.

2. "Happy" is very eerie when you watch it without the music. Check it out. 

3. Apparently, as Spin dug into today, the video bears a striking resemblence to Girl Walk // All Day — a 2011 longform video that accompanied Girl Talk's All Day album. See for yourself in this split-screen comparison posted under the winky/fun title "Pharrell Loves My Work" by Girl Walk // All Day star, Anne Marsen.

It says something about our post-modern times that a 24-hour music video can be decried as a rip off.... And it's a shame that we can take a very clear example of a video breaking a song — Pharrell points out in the Oprah interview that the song received zero airplay or interest before the video went live —  and find a reason to invalidate it.

That said, they do look similar in that two minute compilation taken from one video that's over 70 minutes long and another that's 1,440 minutes long.

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C'mon Get Hatty with Pharrell

Being that Pharrell's hat was the most talked-about element of this year's Grammy Awards — perhaps all you need to know about the current state of music — then you just knew that a "Hatty" parody of his hit "Happy" was going to make it's way online...

What you didn't know was that Pharrell's own company, I Am Other, would be the one's behind it, with Syndrome placing the hatty effects onto the video originally directed by We Are From L.A.