Pharrell Williams has shared a new song ‘Piece By Piece’ from the soundtrack of his upcoming LEGO biopic of the same name. Check it out below.
The musician will chronicle his life and career in the new movie directed by Morgan Neville, which is out on October 11 in the US and November 8 in the UK. The film will delve into his time in the producer group The Neptunes with Chad Hugo, working with Snoop Dogg and Gwen Stefani and more.
‘Piece By Piece’ is the first taste of the film’s soundtrack and features the Princess Anne High School Fabulous Marching Cavaliers – from the high school Williams himself attended.
The track speaks to Williams’ work ethic and motivations to becoming a musician, while making subtle references to the famous plastic bricks. “Finding and breaking miracles to / We keep stackin’ high, high, high,” he sings. “Piece by piece, piece by piece, piece by piece, piece by piece.” Check it out below.
Along with narrating his own journey through the music industry, the movie – on which Williams serves as a co-producer – will also feature cameos from his famous past collaborators, from Jay Z, Gwen Stefani, Kendrick Lamar, Snoop Dogg, Justin Timberlake and more.
Earlier this week, it was also revealed that Daft Punk are set to feature in the film after their name was spotted on the recently-shared official movie poster. The French electronic duo and Williams famously worked together on the 2013 megahit ‘Get Lucky’.
The world premiere of Piece by Piece kicked off the Telluride Film Festival earlier this month.
During an interview with NME in June, Williams explained how the movie was an “amazing experience of history for me”.
He went on: “I can’t tell you how humbled I am to have this masterful storyteller really make sense of my life. It has always been all over the place and made sense to me but not to most.” He also praised the Oscar-winning director Neville for executing his vision, saying: “He was able to do it in colour, vividly – brick by brick, piece by piece.”
Neville has previously captured the legacies of Steve Martin, Mickey Mouse and more.
Asked about the process of getting Williams’ celebrity friends on board, he shared: “They are all a part of Pharrell’s story, but they’re not acting.”
The director added: “There was not a single person who, when we asked them to participate, even hesitated”.
“[Piece By Piece] is a documentary, and a biopic, and an animated movie, and a musical – it’s all these things,” he continued. “So, everything in the film is real. It’s what somebody said, or remembered, or said somebody said.”