Pharrell Williams Realized There Is 'a Chauvinist Culture' After 'Blurred Lines'
"I was also born in a different era, where the rules of the matrix at that time allowed a lot of things that would never fly today," he explained to the magazine. When asked for examples, Pharrell responded with,"Advertisements that objectify women. Song content. Some of my old songs, I would never write or sing today. I get embarrassed by some of that stuff. It just took a lot of time and growth to get to that place.
"And then," he continued,"I realized that there are men who use that same language when taking advantage of a woman, and it doesn't matter that that's not my behavior. Or the way I think about things. It just matters how it affects women. And I was like,My mind opened up to what was actually being said in the song and how it could make someone feel. Even though it wasn't the majority, it didn't matter. I cared what they were feeling too.
Just months later, the star released what would become the best-selling song of 2014: the Oscar-nominated"Happy.""And then here comes 'Happy,' a record that I didn't write for myself, that I ended up being on, that made people feel happy," he recalled to]. I don't have the capacity to write that kind of song for myself. When I do songs for myself, they're always too complicated, and too smart, with six bridges. Because I'm weird like that.
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