Pharrell Williams played his leaked Miley Cyrus collaboration, “Doctor,” during Louis Vuitton’s men’s show at Paris Fashion Week.
The record producer and creative director of menswear at the French fashion house, who took over from the late Virgil Abloh, made the autumn/winter showcase on Jan. 16 about more than just fashion. Williams not only had what is believed to be a shelved track from Miley’s 2013 album Bangerz play over speakers but the models also sauntered down the catwalk to his new collaboration “Good People” with Mumford & Sons, plus a third track featuring an as-yet-unknown male singer.
Mumford & Sons also performed the new song, accompanied by The Native Vocalists, at the afterparty.
Meanwhile, Williams has been working on new N.E.R.D. music.
The “Happy” hitmaker — who formed the hip-hop/rock group in 1999 and released five albums between 2001 and 2017 — said he has been working on “12 N.E.R.D. records” in Paris and he’s promised something special.
“They’re big choruses, but you know, out of nowhere, I’ll just come out of nowhere with the three-bar, crazy-nuts chords that go three-bar to four-bar to eight-bar. It’s good bro, it’s good,” the acclaimed record producer said to Tyler, The Creator for GQ last summer.
He compared the new material to their 2001 debut In Search Of …, and insisted he’s getting the same “feeling.”
“This is like that feeling that I felt when we made In Search Of … I won’t sit here and tell you that they were hits. I knew it was different, and I knew there won’t be nothing out there like this. But I’m talking about the feeling. I wanted to do everything. I wanted feelings. I wanted the great composition,” Williams added.
The musician revealed he has also been experimenting with chords he has “never used before” as he puts together music for N.E.R.D.’s upcoming record.
“I wanted great chords. I want to use chords I never used before, and not just the dreamy ones,” Willaims said. “The ones that I’ve never done, that I [redacted] hated. But using them in ways to get to other chords where the changes are such a release. And then, lyrically, the harmonies here … all the songs just have rainbow harmonies.”
He didn’t give an update on when exactly fans can expect the potential album, which would be the follow-up to 2017’s No_One Ever Really Dies.
