Man of the hour

It seems like you can't do anything this summer without catching a little bit of Pharrell Williams. He's got his fingers in a bit of everything these last few months; Contributing to two tracks on Daft Punk's Random Access Memories, the score of Man Of Steel, Robin Thicke's Blurred Lines and contributing four songs to Despicable Me 2's soundtrack. Seems like he's the man of the hour!

I saw Despicable Me 2 with some friends. Being a bit of a nay-sayer when it comes to CG kid's movies, (Give me traditional animation and an engaging story any day...) I'd never seen the first one and didn't really expect to enjoy the movie. It did have a few laugh-out-loud moments for me, but music nerd that I am, I found myself really enjoying the soundtrack. Somewhere near the start the above song "Fun, fun, fun." plays and you can recognise Pharrell's voice right away.

Three of the songs he wrote for the movie have that bouncy, breezy feel that some of his work with N*E*R*D has and they're all really uplifting songs that are perfect for blasting out in summer. The other is a more generic sounding song which is the end credit theme to the movie. The soundtrack has some other really nice surprises too including some tracks from Cee-lo Green, Mungo Jerry and even a sneaky (Lyricless...) snippet from Bob Marley's "Jammin'."

Pharrell's all over the place right now and what's killing me is there's no news of a new solo, or, even better, N*E*R*D album anywhere! I guess it's not going to happen any time soon, but now would have been absolutely killer timing for him to drop something of is own. Aw well.