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It's pop.
Pop isn't just about the music or the performance. In fact it has nothing much to do with music or performance, it's about the cult of celebrity, hype and the necessity to make a crapload of doubloons before the Golden Goose gets constipation.
Punters didn't go to the Radio 1 gig to appreciate music or a vocal performance, they went to see Pharrell Williams' hat. Get over it.
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Exactly, and with 7 Grammy awards and $80m behind him everything he touches turns to gold...
I did enjoy his earlier work when he was just producing as the Neptunes and his N.E.R.D stuff.