Pharrell Talks ‘G I R L’ Cover Controversy, Politics And More With ‘GQ’
by Staff Editor
Pharrell’s age-less face has landed yet another GQ cover. Although the April cover isn’t officially out, GQ decided to release the full cover story. Writer Zach Baron spent time with the super producer as they cruised around Miami talking about anything from women and his G I R L cover controversy to why he believes Hillary Clinton will be the next president of the United States.
“Let me tell you why Hillary’s going to win. Everywhere you go in this country, you have red and blue. You got the Democrats; you got the Republicans. You got the Bloods; you got the Crips,” he explained. “You know what else is red and blue? Blood. Blood is blue in your body until air hits it, and then it turns red. That means there’s unity. There’s gonna be unity.”
The “Happy” crooner also raised some salient points on race as he touched on all the backlash of his recent G I R L cover art.
“It’s insecurity. You can be anything that you want to be, and what I chose to do is put my friends on the cover. The girl that was closest next to me is black, but they didn’t know that, so they jumped the gun. And it’s like: ‘Yo, you don’t need nobody to represent you. You represent you,” Pharrell said. “Black ain’t a color: black is a spirit, and it is ubiquitous. In fact, there’s more black out in space than there is stars. We have nothing to be insecure about.”
The cover story wouldn’t be complete without touching on Pharrell’s buffalo hat. The fancy head wear has received its own song and trended on social network.
“Anything different, people are going to look at and go, ‘Ha ha ha ha, what is that??’ Then, after a while, they do a little bit of research; they realize it’s Vivienne Westwood, an ode to her boyfriend at the time; they had a store together called World’s End. The guy who went on to sign the Sex Pistols, Malcolm McLaren,” he said.
Head over to GQ to find out when Pharrell realized he had to move out of his parent’s house and what his response was to being snubbed at the Oscars.