Saturday, February 8, 2014 8:15am ET by Newsdesk
Pharrell Williams says he wrote his part on 'Get Lucky' "in an hour or so"Pharrell Williams has been discussing his phenomenal success over the past year. The N*E*R*D hitmaker dominated the charts over the summer thanks to his spots on Robin Thicke’s ‘Blurred Lines’ and Daft Punk’s disco hit ‘Get Lucky’, as well as the No. 1 success of his ‘Despicable Me 2’ tune ‘Happy’. During a recent interview with Look magazine Pharrell revealed the recording process behind Daft Punk’s ‘Get Lucky’. Williams explained: “When they got me into the studio, that track was done and they just asked me to write on it. I think I wrote it in an hour or so, but then we did a bunch of takes so they got exactly what they needed.” He said of the Grammy-winning robot duo: “Those guys are perfectionists.” When asked if he expected his recent songs to be such runaway successes, he replied: “No. You only have a sense of what feels good to you personally. The success of a song is predicated on how everybody else feels when they hear it. If they say, 'I like it and I want to tell somebody else about it,' then that is magical.” Speaking about his plans for the future Pharrell indicated he plans to produce more feel-good hits as he stated: “There's something to be said for making music that jovial. I tried to tap into that a little last year with these songs because I wanted to make people happy.”
Watch Pharrell Williams, Daft Punk, Nile Rodgers and Stevie Wonder playing 'Get Lucky' below:
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