Pharrell Is On The Cover Of “GQ’s” Masculinity Issue! (PICS)
“When you listen to yourself and you’re comfortable in who you are, you wear what you feel like fits and looks right on you. And that’s it.” – Pharrell
Pharrell did an in-depth interview with Will Welch for GQ Magazine and they didn’t just talk about fashion!
Pharrell talked about many things including masculinity, religion, social media, how “Blurred Lines” changed his perception on certain things as well as how things that were acceptable in the past aren’t acceptable in 2019.
“I was also born in a different era, where the rules of the matrix at that time allowed a lot of things that would never fly today. Advertisements that objectify women. Song content. Some of my old songs, I would never write or sing today. I get embarrassed by some of that stuff. It just took a lot of time and growth to get to that place.”
“I remember the time when saying bitch and bitches was not necessarily offensive. It just depended on how and what the context was. Now that’s just not okay. If you’re saying you don’t mean it in that way, it’s still at the cost of a woman, of the female species. It’s just a different time, you know? And to me, empathy is at the heart of all of this. Because when you talk to folks who lived through the ’50s and ’60s, they might not say the N-word, right? But they’ll say, ‘That was just the way it was then.’ That was accepted. But African Americans, when we hear that, we go, ‘Yeah, but f*ck that, that’s bullsh*t.’ It was unacceptable then, and it’s unacceptable now. And just because it was acceptable at that time doesn’t give anyone the room to excuse it. Well, that’s exactly how women feel. That is exactly how the LGBTQIA feel. That’s exactly how other minorities [feel]—or what they call minorities, right? Listen to that word. Just because you are the smaller portion of the population, it’s okay for someone to refer to you as a minority.”
You can read Pharrell’s full interview with GQ here.
