Pretender Diss: 'Rock Star' calls out everyone who keeps saying they're gonna make the big time, only to chicken out when the limelight is on them.Police Brutality: One of the main themes of NO_ONE EVER REALLY DIES, particularly in 'Don't Don't Do It!' - one of the song's verses lists places where recent and controversial events of such trope happened.The original version of the song starts with Pharrell screaming 'ORGY!!!' just to hammer the point home. A Party, Also Known as an Orgy: 'Truth or Dare'.Neoclassical Punk Zydeco Rockabilly: His work with N*E*R*D is a highly eclectic mix of Funk Rock with Electronic Music, hip hop and R&B.He fully comprehends that what he's doing is destructive, though, and wishes he could stop selling drugs and become a normal person with a loving family. He got kicked out of school by trying out some cocaine, and is now a drug dealer who works every night to give some money to his girlfriend. The song is sung from the point of view of a teenager who was spurned by a friend of his to get into the drug business due to his extremely poor economic state. Justified Criminal: 'Provider', hoo boy.Sadly, the girl she's talking about is stuck with a Bastard Boyfriend who won't let her be. Good Bad Girl: 'She Wants To Move' is an ode to this trope.

Fun with Acronyms: N*E*R*D stands for ' No One Ever Really Dies'.

Darkest Hour: Sooner or later, it all comes crashing down.Corrupt Politician: Pharrell compares them to strippers in 'Lapdance', in the way how they make a lot of big promises like a stripper offering a free lapdance, but cannot and will not live up to them.Childhood Friends: Pharrell and Chad met at a camp for musically gifted and talented children when they were 12, and met Shay at school. First, for The Roots’ very purple remix album of Pharrell’s solo debut In My Mind, linking years later for a project that was eventually shelved, and once more recently, when Skateboard P.Aerith and Bob: Chad is a common name, Pharrell is a less common name, and Shay is somewhere in the middle.

Pharrell in my mind root