Pharrell Williams's funk/hip-hop outfit N.E.R.D. have shared a new track titled "Squeeze Me," which you can check out below. The track is N.E.R.D.'s first since their 2010 album Nothing and is their contribution to the soundtrack for the upcoming SpongeBob SquarePants movie, which is being helmed by Pharrell along with his N.E.R.D. bandmate — and Neptunes production partner — Chad Hugo.
In true Pharrell fashion, "Squeeze Me" begins with an instrumental four-count, and keeping with the tropical setting and imagery of SpongeBob SquarePants, the song has a vaguely Caribbean atmosphere to it, like a cross between ska and calypso.
You can check out N.E.R.D.'s "Squeeze Me" from The Spongebob Movie here, via Spin:
The soundtrack for The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water is set for release Jan. 5, while the film itself is set for release Feb. 6. It will be the second full-length SpongeBob SquarePants film, following The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie from 2004.
"We're trying not to think too much in a cartoon sense," Chad Hugo told Variety about The Spongebob Movie soundtrack, "but more just like a psychedelic, otherworldly type of thing. If you want to draw a parallel, maybe think of what The Beatles did with Yellow Submarine."
Though the soundtrack to The Spongebob Movie is the closest we have been to a new N.E.R.D. album since their 2010 album Nothing, Pharrell hinted in October that a new N.E.R.D. studio album was possibly on the way.
"I can't say right now," he told radio.com when asked about a new album, "but that's good news. It's really good news."
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