Blender’s Heat-Seeking, Sweat-Dripping, Pool-Hopping Summer Music Blowout

Pharrell
The producer and N.E.R.D. frontman on the upside of touring (topless girls!) and the downside of denim (sweaty balls!)

Where are you, and what can you see?
I’m in a hotel in Asheville, North Carolina. It’s a few floors up, so I’m looking at the tops of trees.

Why should we leave our air-conditioned McMansion to come see N.E.R.D. play this summer?
The energy. There’s got to be tons of Red Bull cans in the parking lot. The kids go spastic!

What’s the worst thing ever thrown at you onstage?
All good things, like bras and panties. They show a lot of tits at our shows. I don’t know what makes them do that.

Which town has the craziest groupies?
I don’t look at my fans as groupies. It’s not three chicks crawling out from under the bed like, “We’re waiting.”  They’re crazy as hell, but they are civilized.

What gets too hot to touch onstage?
Thick denim. It sticks to your balls. Girls wouldn’t want to see them after that. They’d be like, “Shower first, sir!”

What’s the longest you’ve gone without showering?
When you get off that stage and that salty sweat starts to dry up—no way! I don’t know how people come off the stage and go party.

We’re at the ice-cream truck—what are you licking?
A Fudge Bomb Pop. It’s chocolate, banana, chocolate.

What’s the worst summer job you’ve ever had?
I only had good ones. I worked at McDonald’s, but I got fired because I was too slow on the grill.

We’re going to a nude beach. Are you coming with us?
Absolutely not. Fuck, no! I could just have the girls over to my pool.

N.E.R.D. are on tour this summer with Kanye West; their new album, Seeing Sounds, is out June 10.