Pharrell Williams & Daft Punk for "Gust of Wind"

Pharrell Williams has reunited with electronic music masterminds Daft Punk and filmmaker Edgar Wright to create a fun music video for their collaboration "Gust of Wind," off Williams' latest album, "G I R L." Autumn is here, so take a stroll through the woods with Williams and his the French DJ duo pals Daft Punk as they entering some kind of enchanted forest full of fairy-like girls who dance around majestically.
The vibe on this new track is just what you'd expect from Williams and Daft Punk - electropop. It finds Williams in love with a lady who lifts him up mentally and emotionally like a force of nature. The song was inspired by Williams' wife, model and designer Helen Lasichanh. He explained to The Sun: "That song came to me in a dream. It's the only time it has ever happened to me in my life."
The 41-year-old entertainer continued: "I woke up and sang them to my girl and said: 'Babe, this is about you. It's about the divine force you have which could be compared to a gust of wind.' I told her: 'Like a gust of wind, you remind me there's someone out there who ushers in the air as I need to power in myself. And my wife was overjoyed when she first heard that song," he added. "She was also a little teary-eyed but then we have the Robots on there. It was like, 'Wow! Those guys are like, the next level."
Throughout the vibrant visuals, "The Voice" coach rocking huge colorful safety pin strolls walks through a fall-covered forest with groups of interstellar gymnasts performing choreographed maneuvers where he comes across two giant boulders in the shape of the Robots' helmets hover around him before final takeoff. The Baes dance alongside Williams and the autumn leaves before the boulders light up and ascend into the sky. This is simultaneously a very simple video and one stuffed with a bunch of effects and complicated choreography. Despite all that, Wright's direction really serves the song here. The song's a smooth jam, and so is the video.

Pharrell Williams & Miley Cyrus 'Come Get It Bae'

Funk it up! Pharrell Williams acts as a photographer at a fashion shoot in the just-released music video for his new funky single, "Come Get It Bae," and like its predecessor mega-hit "Happy," it's chock-full of fun, funky moves. It also features a cameo from none other than twerking Miley Cyrus, who only takes a few seconds for the pop star to flash her famous asset, once she joins the booty-shaking fun while providing guest vocals on the song. This isn't the first time the duo have worked together, Williams also produced "4x4" and "#GETITRIGHT" for Cyrus' "Bangerz" album.
The overwhelmingly catchy "Come Get It Bae," is the third single from Williams' chart-topping album, "G I R L." It serves as an innuendo for sex through the metaphor of a motorcycle, a recurring theme throughout "G I R L." The "Bae" is short for "Before Anything Else," or alternatively another way to say babe or baby. This song finds Cyrus supplying some backing vocals to Williams' melange of sexual metaphors. He explained to The Sun: "I wanted her on that song as I love her tone. It just felt good and that's it and I wanted to make music with people who feel."
The Luis Cerveró-directed video's concept is a simple affair with jam-packed with youthful, lovely dancing ladies. The producer basically films a Dove advertisement and begin with a much more female-friendly message: "Beauty has no expiration date." From there, it goes on to show various models twerking and dancing some hand-clapping choreography suggestively to the super fun and joyous jam in a large dance studio filled with mirrors, as Williams films them on a Super 8 camera and opted for one of his omnipresent hats along with ripped jeans and a denim shirt over a white tee.
Cyrus crashes in on the fun mid-way through the crazy colorful video to sing her verses, with the kind of look we've come to expect from the singer by now. Wearing a goofy outfit - cutoff denim short jean shorts, a midriff-baring white crop top, a varsity jacket of sorts, and high-top sneakers, Shockingly, she doesn't twerk, leaving that task to one of the models instead, but she does stick out her extremely long tongue, mug for the camera, and bust a few some goofy moves with skateboard Williams. Pop a wheelie, and blast this to while away your Hump Day.

Ed Sheeran embarks on a wild night out in "SING"

What does a folk-pop superstar like Ed Sheeran do when he wants to get wild in a music video - pop bottles, visit the strip club, nuzzle up against some breasts - without tainting his nice-guy image? Employ a Muppet lookalike to enjoy all the debauchery, of course! Never one to stick with the expected, the 23-year-old English singer-songwriter has gone for yet another slightly unusual twist for the wacky and trippy "Sing" video, which premiered exclusively on his Facebook on Thursday and just so happens to feature the man of the moment in puppet alter-ego form. The great Muppet bender!
"Sing" is the lead single from Sheeran's upcoming sophomore album, "x," due out June 23rd. "The reason I chose this song to be the first single is, I think if I put out an acoustic ballad first, everyone would be like 'ehh, it's alright,'" Sheeran explained. "But with this, you get people who are either going to love it or going to hate it, but at least they're going to be talking about it." Featuring Pharrell Williams, who also co-produced the song with Sheeran, the track, which has pop and R&B influences and was apparently inspired by singer Justin Timberlake, is a considered a departure from Sheeran's folk rock sound.
The lyrics are about "a night out in Vegas." It was inspired by a girl that Sheeran met in Las Vegas in the summer of 2013, when "one thing led to another and now she's kissing my mouth." After the events described in the song, the pair went out for sushi. Commenting on his rapping and falsetto singing on the track, Sheeran told Ryan Seacrest: "I feel like I was veering off in one direction with that song. [It was] a very R&B led song and I wanted to pull it back and make it English so that's why I put the rap in it."
A van swerving out of control on a road before crashing into a pile of stacked cardboard boxes, and Asian business men getting entertained by an Sheeran-looking puppet? Yes, these are two scenes that make "Sing" one of Sheeran's weirdest clips to date. Muppet Sheeran is out for the night of his Muppet life, bringing his fuzzy red hair and leather jacket to bar after bar and picking up some blonde beauties on the way. The human Sheeran doesn't appear until the first chorus drops, and after the Muppet visits the strip club and vomits confetti, he stops by to pick up his human counterpart and Williams. Then: karaoke, most likely on Avenue Q. Watch Sheeran, Muppet Sheeran and Williams embark on a wild night out.

Pharrell salute diversity in "Marilyn Monroe"

With his single "Happy" still sitting atop the charts, Pharrell Williams silences his critics once and for all with the new video for its follow-up "Marilyn Monroe," the second single and opening track off his sophomore album "G I R L." The Neptunes hitmaker celebrates the different women of the world in the heavily-choreographed clip. Rocking his beloved, oversize red hat, the 41-year-old star dancing with scores of the happy-looking and racially-diverse female dancers in a red, white, and blue room, in outer space, and on a rooftop overlooking downtown Los Angeles.
Williams opens his "G I R L" album with this girl power song, which is about self-love and self-worth, and features vocals from English singer Kelly Osbourne. Its lyrics discuss helpless romantics and the perfect lady references to several female historical figures, including Marilyn Monroe, Egyptian queen Cleopatra and French heroine Joan of Arc, as Williams dismisses all three as "[meaning] nothing to [him]" and laments that he "just [wants] a different girl." He explained at the album's listening party that his intention was to write a tune that said that ideals of feminine beauty are redundant. "You don't have to be a certain weight, a certain height," Williams said. "For me, she doesn't have to be the statuesque American standard of what beauty is."
But "Marilyn Monroe" isn't really about Monroe, it's about all the ladies who are not Monroe, but that's OK, Williams doesn't judge. As he explained to The Sun: "I called the song 'Marilyn Munro' because she was beautiful. Then the lyrics name check Joan of Arc because she was heroic, and Cleopatra was wise. Women don't have to be any of that to be beautiful. You can just be your own thing." The song also functions almost as a title track, "The reason why I named it 'G I R L' in capital letters is because when you look at it, it looks a little weird. And the reason why it does is because society is a little unbalanced," Williams told BBC Radio 1.
The video, directed by Luis Cervero, wisely doesn't try to outdo the 24-hour-long shenanigans of the "Happy" video, opting instead for the playfully raunchy low-concept vibe of "Blurred Lines," back when all anyone was saying about that clip was that it was "playfully raunchy." It's the kind of video where large portions are set on a goofy lavender moonscape, where Williams' hats practically get a feature credit, and where Osbourne interrupts the proceedings from nowhere, like she does on the track, to go on about the groove and disappear. Like "G I R L," it knows that pop ubiquity should never be taken too seriously. Watch Williams salute diversity in the colorful clip below.