NBA 2K15 & Pharrell Hat: 'Happy' Singer to Curate Soundtrack for Basketball Video Game
2K Games has recently announced that Pharrell Williams will be curating the soundtrack for upcoming basketball simulation game "NBA 2K15."
While sitting down with Complex magazine, the "Happy" hitmaker discussed hand-selecting track listing for the franchise's next installment. He first explained how he decided to take the role. "When you say I got a chance, I decided to curate the music, it was something that I accepted but I couldn't believe that my name had gotten, you know, tossed in the hat for it," he said.
"You know, I was, I'm still, I'm honored because I know that when, you know, there's so many other people that were probably super, way more like deserving of the opportunity," he continued. "So when I got a chance to do it I was like, 'Ok cool, I just wanna try and do something different though,' you know? And I didn't, and I'm hoping that it works and you guys like it."
Once he accepted the role and started brainstorming to get the songs together, the Grammy Award-winning producer admitted that he had doubts since he does not know much about basketball as Jay Z or LeBron James does -- as both previously curated soundtracks in the NBA 2K series: "Wow, I'm like, 'Damn like how do I follow up those guys?' They know so much more about this sport than I do, you know?"
As a result, the "GIRL" musician had to go in different, unique direction to "kill it." "And then I just thought, 'You know what? There are girls that play the game and there's a lot of girls that are around it because their boyfriends play it or their friends play it,'" he said. "So I thought it'd be such an interesting twist to have the girls weigh in on the song list, because they're the ones that listen to it, they listen to it just as much. So I was just trying to pick like an alternative approach, you know, because how do you follow up like LeBron and Jay? You gotta take a different route.
Pharrell then claimed that he does not have final number for the list, but was certain that "it is our largest soundtrack to date."
In addition, NBA MVP Kevin Durant is featured on the cover of forthcoming "NBA 2K15."
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