Monday, October 20, 2014

It Girl by Pharrell



At 3,000,000 It Girl may not be one of Pharrell’s greatest hits. Listening to it, it classic Pharrell. It’s entirely in falsetto, got a catchy beat, and he constantly repeats the exact same thing over and over and over and over again.  Sounds like should be a hit. However, the music video is a tad bit.... off. 

If your wondering if those girls are riding a whale, they are.

We're not quite sure where this new angle came from, but it definitely strays away from "classic Pharrell." Maybe he recently joined anime club, or maybe he's trying to tap into that massive weeaboo market. What is clear is it seems like this video was a conceived after marathoning One Piece on acid and going, "Eh, sure, I guess we can try that out."

Yeeeeeehhh, lets put this video back where it came from.
The story of this video is also kinda really strange. Pharrell, while out skateboarding one day in his side-scrolling Sega video game, comes across some girls playing on the beach .He then proceeds to, um, just kinda stare at them? (please refer to fig. 1) At which point, he decides to flirt with the 12 year old of the group. I think. After catching her alone on a beach in the middle of the night, he runs over to her, pulls a star out of his hat and throws it at her.

So that's what he keeps under his hat.
But the video doesn't stop the train there. No. Pharrell was like, let's just keep on goin' until nobody knows what's going on anymore. His magic hat star thing brings the girls friends over (who are like ghosts or something?) and opens a in-game store. He buys a flying dolphin plane and they ride around shooting sushi until an omnipresent techno Pharrell shows up and dance the music video away. But not before our heros lands next to a Mount Rushmore with Pharrell's and a puppies head on it.

It's what the America's greatest presidents would've wanted. 
With that being said, it is truly a unique music video that you won't forget any time soon, or ever. It bright enough to induce seizures and active enough to make sure you never quite know what's going on. We give this music video a 4 out of 10 dancing Pharrells.

Dem moves yo. 



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