


It lets a psychedelic "crispy guitar and a thick-ever present bass" take the center stage for the production. "Stay with Me" is a funk-inspired pop and disco song. Williams and Timberlake worked together on the 2014 joint track "Brand New". In collaboration with Harris, Williams was featured alongside American singer Katy Perry and American rapper Big Sean on the 2017 single " Feels" and, in the same year, on " Heatstroke" with American rapper Young Thug and American singer Ariana Grande. Before the release of "Stay with Me", Williams had collaborated with both Harris and Timberlake on separate occasions. It does not store any personal data.On 6 July 2022, Harris announced the collaboration, song title, and release date, with a picture of the four artists at the shoot of the accompanying music video. The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Performance". This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Other. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary". The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional". The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics".

These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. It is difficult to understand how the same person responsible for one of the catchiest songs in the last decade is the creator of this fairly imaginative, but utterly forgetful single. Listen to this song ten times in a row and then try to sing it back to yourself. What is lacking here is anything that is memorable. He even gets away with a vocal cameo from Miley Cyrus. Pharrell adds some 70s soul guitar chugging, a cheeky riff, and fortunately does not feel the need to thrust his crotch suggestively, leer at women, or romantically scream at them that they are ‘the hottest bitch in the place’. The objectionable content in Blurred Lines was never its minimal bass line, its fluttering beats, or its falsetto swooning, all of which are present and correct here. In practice this is actually no bad thing. The third single, Come Get It Bae, does nothing in the way of attempting to ape Happy, but does owe its tightly stripped back production style to that other huge, albatross shaped hit, Blurred Lines, on which Pharrell was featured. As such, the second single from Williams’ album G I R L, Marilyn Monroe, snuck by everybody largely unnoticed. The record breaking song of seemingly every summer since the birth of recorded music is surely an incredibly weighty albatross around even the strongest of necks. Pharrell Williams could give birth to the second coming of Christ whilst riding a unicycle across a tightrope suspended above the pits of hell and he would still forever be known as ‘that guy that sang Happy’.
