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| Pharrell Williams has expressed his admiration for the former First Lady, New York senator and Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton. In a new interview with GQ,the artist endorses Clinton's 2016 presidential run, despite the fact that she has not yet officially entered the race. | |
| "Let me tell you why Hillary's going to win," Pharrell begins, before stating his desire for a more equal establishment: | "Let me tell you why Hillary's going to win," Pharrell begins, before stating his desire for a more equal establishment: |
| Everywhere you go in this country, you have red and blue. You got the Democrats; you got the Republicans. You got the Bloods; you got the Crips. Everything is red and blue in this country. You know what else is red and blue? Blood. Blood is blue in your body until air hits it, and then it turns red. That means there's unity. There's gonna be unity. So when you think about a night where there's late-night talk-show hosts and it's mostly women, that's a different world. Right? A world where seventy-five percent of the prime ministers and the presidents were women: That's a different world. That's gonna happen, and it's gonna happen when Hillary wins. | Everywhere you go in this country, you have red and blue. You got the Democrats; you got the Republicans. You got the Bloods; you got the Crips. Everything is red and blue in this country. You know what else is red and blue? Blood. Blood is blue in your body until air hits it, and then it turns red. That means there's unity. There's gonna be unity. So when you think about a night where there's late-night talk-show hosts and it's mostly women, that's a different world. Right? A world where seventy-five percent of the prime ministers and the presidents were women: That's a different world. That's gonna happen, and it's gonna happen when Hillary wins. |
| Addressing in particular Clinton's pro-choice stance, Pharrell then, rather bizarrely, compares the abortion rights movement with outer space exploration. "No matter how staunch of a supporter you are of no-abortion, whatever you are: You're a woman, and there's no way in the world you're going to vote for somebody that's going to try to tell you what to do with your body," he says. "When we are a country and we are a species that has had a martian Rover traveling up and down the crevices of this planet looking for water and ice, okay, and we've had a space station that's been orbiting our planet for 16 years—but we still got legislation trying to tell women what to do with their bodies? Hillary's gonna win. Listen, I'm reaching out to her right now. She's gonna win." | Addressing in particular Clinton's pro-choice stance, Pharrell then, rather bizarrely, compares the abortion rights movement with outer space exploration. "No matter how staunch of a supporter you are of no-abortion, whatever you are: You're a woman, and there's no way in the world you're going to vote for somebody that's going to try to tell you what to do with your body," he says. "When we are a country and we are a species that has had a martian Rover traveling up and down the crevices of this planet looking for water and ice, okay, and we've had a space station that's been orbiting our planet for 16 years—but we still got legislation trying to tell women what to do with their bodies? Hillary's gonna win. Listen, I'm reaching out to her right now. She's gonna win." |
| The singer and producer reaffirms his predictions, claiming that "everybody laughed at me when I said Obama was going to win, but I knew what he represented". | The singer and producer reaffirms his predictions, claiming that "everybody laughed at me when I said Obama was going to win, but I knew what he represented". |
| Pharrell released his second solo album last month. At a recent playback for G I R L, he explained how the album was take on 21st-century feminism. "Women," the singer told the room of journalists, "are a phenomenal force in my life and in my career". He went on to envisage a future world in which "75% of it is run by women … and I want to be on the right side of it." | Pharrell released his second solo album last month. At a recent playback for G I R L, he explained how the album was take on 21st-century feminism. "Women," the singer told the room of journalists, "are a phenomenal force in my life and in my career". He went on to envisage a future world in which "75% of it is run by women … and I want to be on the right side of it." |