Pharrell Williams Announces New Album 'G I R L'

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Less than a anniversary afterwards performing a greatest hits set at the NBA All-Star Game, Pharrell Williams has appear the absolution of additional album G I R L on March 3rd. In a statement, the singer/producer said that he capital the anthology to feel "festive and urgent."

Song Premiere: Pharrell Williams Gets 'Happy' on 'Despicable Me 2' Soundtrack

A 30-second trailer appear Wednesday gives slight acumen into the album. A cord quartet soundtracks the trailer, which shows the ambassador dancing in the flat abutting with an orchestra and many, abounding fedoras. In the end, a sunglasses-clad Pharrell sheds a aloof tear.

No chat yet on which advance will be included in the album, but apprehend to apprehend advance individual "Happy" a lot over the next few months. The Oscar-nominated song, aboriginal featured on the soundtrack to Despicable Me 2, is currently #1 on the iTunes' Songs blueprint in the U.S. and has accomplished Number One in added than 75 countries. Pharrell will accomplish "Happy" at the Academy Awards on Sunday, March 2nd, a day afore the album's release. Pharrell, 'Girl' (Photo: Courtesy of Columbia Records)

It's still unclear, however, how abundant rapping Pharrell will do on G I R L. Late endure year, the ambassador said his next anthology would be rap-free, saying, "That's the aberration amid 30 and 40. 'Cause I was 30, now I'm 40 – and I'm not rapping." One anniversary later, he told Fuse, "There was a misunderstanding. There's just things that I just can't allocution about at the moment that will not accept any rap in it. But I will be rapping." Major Lazer, for one, was able to get a ballad out of the ambassador on their afresh appear "Aerosol Can."

Despite getting one of the a lot of abounding producers in music, G I R L will be Pharrell's aboriginal anthology in eight years. In My Mind, appear in 2006, ailing at Number Three on the Billboard 200, but accustomed alloyed reviews.