In 2016, Pharrell Williams visited a NYU music production class to critique student songs. After he listened to a song called “Alaska” by a student named Maggie Rogers, he explained why “I have zero, zero, zero notes for that:”
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[Completed video…](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNWsW6c6t8g)
Beautiful song and Pharrell’s reaction was great
Thank you for posting this.
I love how she is nervous and then slowly gets into the song.
I like this version
https://youtu.be/4OSFcb2j8pY
Pharrell should have his own side gig just doing this every so often.
He has more knowhow and say than every person combined on AGT
Maggie Rogers album with Alaska on it will become an all-time classic. It’s amazing.
His reaction to Alaska singlehandedly made her a star. This video “went viral” a hundred times over and created a horde of people on the internet asking how to find the full version of Alaska, or straight up jacking the incomplete song from this video and uploading it to soundcloud and youtube. Pharrell made it a hit before the song was even mastered.
I was a moderator of /r/ListenToThis when this video came out, and we were dealing with Maggie Rogers spam for literally months.
That was a good song! Don’t think I have such a strong stance of it being entirely original that he has though. This feels like a lot of female singer/songwriter music out of the early 2000s.
Man, at the beginning you could see her drenched with the absolute terror of sharing this with him.
It was written all over his face as each layer of the song was peeled back to reveal something different.
The faces Pharrell is making are killing me lmao he keeps glancing at the camera with a look of like “it’s actually stupid how good this is, are you kidding me?”
just the wholesomeness of her oblivion to how blown away Pharrell was the whole session and then like when he reviews it she is like …. he likes it??
Love this video!
I work with high school kids and I can tell you his reaction while he is listening to it is something I have experienced when I am proud of my kids. Internally he is thinking “Holy crap, this is amazing. I can’t believe they are this good.”
I have had this thought during speeches, concerts, sporting events, and even just listening to students talk about relationships and life. When someone younger than you grasps concepts that usually take people decades to understand, it’s an amazing mix of pride, joy, happiness and hope. This is a great clip.
Gotta love the way she’s not sure how to read him, this is such a moment in her life.
Pharrell is pure class. Handing down approval to a clearly gifted and talented artist is beyond wholesome.
I don’t mean to brag but Pharrell has *never* had any notes for me either.
[Here’s](https://youtu.be/G0u7lXy7pDg) the full video of Pharell critiquing the students including a longer reaction of this song.
Maggie Rogers is fucking awesome, highly recommend listening to both her albums
His reaction blew up partially because of Reddit. Here’s the original thread from /r/videos 6 years ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/4m2bp1/pharrells_reaction_to_this_girls_song_is_so
Everyone keeps commenting on Pharrell’s reaction, but look at her face when it ends and after he started talking.
Once she got out of the rhythm of the song she looked terrified for a sec, not knowing if she was about to get praised by an incredible artist or torn down.
When he really gets into why she’s special, she looks like she’s going to cry from that validation. Such a pure, vulnerable, and real moment. Good for them both.
Imagine Pharrell saying your music is “cool”. A high beyond any drug in existence.
This is the moment her life changed forever, it’s incredible to witness this.
Holy shit he compared her to Stevie Wonder and Wu-Tang, wow.
That look he gives her when the vocals come in… I’ve gotten that look a couple times from friends over some dumb beat or riff and the feeling is amazing. I cannot even begin to imagine getting that look from someone like him.
This will probably get buried but I used to live in the same building as Pharrell and ran into him often. He couldn’t have been a nicer, more genuine person. His bodyguard, Ben, was also super nice.