Pharrell Williams Releases Life-Affirming Single Piece by Piece

Pharrell Williams has dropped a lively new song called "Piece by Piece."

The track features the Princess Anne High School Fabulous Marching Cavaliers and is part of Morgan Neville’s animated biopic Piece by Piece, hitting theaters on October 11. The movie, which premiered at the Telluride Film Festival, narrates Pharrell’s life and music career using Lego bricks. It includes voice performances from Pharrell, Gwen Stefani, Kendrick Lamar, Timbaland, Justin Timberlake, Busta Rhymes, Jay Z, and Snoop Dogg.

In an interview with Variety, Pharrell shared, "What we made is not like any other movie. I don’t know what a comp for it would be. People can try and label it. It’s just its own film. It’s mind-blowing, in a way, the freedom that we were able to put together in the film, but that only works if you’re channeling your subject."

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Pharrell also mentioned he worked with Chad Hugo from the Neptunes on some tracks for the film. “There are two new compositions,” he told Variety. “One is made for a specific scene. And the other one is made for a specific scene but tells the story; it’s like my thesis — [which is] that God is the greatest, that awareness, just understanding that that’s the story. The rest of the music is music that Chad [Hugo] and I made together and songs also that I made by myself, and that we produced and wrote for other people. It’s one big fun musical documentary biopic.”

Before it hits theaters in October, Piece by Piece will also be shown at the Toronto International Film Festival and the BFI London Film Festival. Details about the soundtrack are still under wraps.

Pharrell is also collaborating with filmmaker Michel Gondry on a coming-of-age musical titled Atlantis, scheduled for release on May 9, 2025. The Universal Pictures film features stars like Halle Bailey, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Missy Elliott, Anderson .Paak, Janelle Monáe, Tim Meadows, Jayson Brian Tyree Henry, Jaboukie Young-White, and Kelvin Harrison Jr.

In the past, Pharrell has been involved in movies such as The Grinch (2018) as the narrator, the Despicable Me series as a composer, and Hidden Figures (2016) as a producer.