Pharrell Williams...Married?
I'm sorry ladies but this looks to be true according to a recent interview with Vibe where the super producer mentions being married all while defending the scantly clad women in Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines" video.
Pharrell Williams can be considered man of the year (so far), thanks to multiple production credits on the summer's biggest bangers but with great talent, also comes controversy.
Featuring topless models prancing around, Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines" visual co-starring producer Skateboard P and rapper T.I. raised a few complaints from women's rights groups. Both Thicke and director Diane Martel have defended the video, even releasing a suitable-for-work version, but in a recent Q&A with Rolling Stone, the N.E.R.D. beatsmith also offered his two cents.
“We were trying to make a moving version of a page in Vogue, where you might see a woman’s breast,” Williams explained. “The body isn’t meant to be objectified. I know the video has caused some controversy, but my admiration for women supersedes anything I could ever say. We all come through the conduit of the bodies of beautiful women.”
Though the explicit video was banned from YouTube in March, Pharrell insists that their personal lives are reason enough to justify the video's naked creativity. "Because all three of us are happily married with children, we were like, ‘We’re the perfect guys to make fun of this.’ People say, ‘Hey, do you think this is degrading to women?’ I’m like, ‘Of course it is. What a pleasure it is to degrade a woman. I’ve never gotten to do that before. I’ve always respected women. So we just wanted to turn it over on its head and make people go, ‘Women and their bodies are beautiful. Men are always gonna want to follow them around.”
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