Curtis Mayfield was a bad man. I thought that Pharrel song Happy sounded familiar Always a busy guy — in 2013 he helped create two of the years biggest pop hits in Robin Thickes Blurred Lines and Daft Punks Get Lucky — Williams has been in even higher demand lately, thanks in large part to his first Oscar nomination. Happy, from Despicable Me 2, is up for original song at the Academy Awards, to be held March 2. A cheery gospel-funk number Williams said he modeled after Curtis Mayfield, Happy serves in the animated movie as a means of humanizing Gru, the grumpy villain voiced by Steve Carell. But its also done brisk business as a stand-alone single, racking up more than 75 million streams on YouTube and an additional 45 million on Spotify. On Wednesday it sat atop the iTunes single chart and at No. 2 on Billboards Hot 100. When you look at the history of songs written for films, the ones thatve broken out to have a meaningful life beyond the film are very rare, said Chris Meledandri, whose Illumination Entertainment made both Despicable Me films for Universal Pictures. Theres an infectious quality to Happy that just resonates. latimes/entertainment/music/posts/la-et-ms-pharrell-williams-20140220,0,6981329.story#ixzz2tt07one7
Posted on: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 17:58:26 +0000
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