ChapterZero

Tonight’s been an insomniac night, just checking out a bunch of blogs. Feeding the addiction

Anyhoo, in the background, I’ve been youtubing various people. For the first time I listened to some of Pharell’s stuff: I’ve been a fan of his forever, because he demonstrably doesn’t think that to be successful in the music business you have to conform to the Jay-Z, Lil’ Wayne, Soulja Boy, etc. stereotypes. He’s being him, doing him, and it’s working for him, same as his bff Kanye.

But I’d never heard his music before; here’s a little sample:

If someone had played these for me, I would have thought the first two were parodies; the third is OK, but can Gwen Stefani have some more lines? On to someone else…

Update: I think in the first two songs he was trying to get the same offbeat feel as when he’s part of NERD; I like what I’ve seen of their stuff. Here’s a good one: