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It was announced in December 2013 that Williams had been
nominated for seven Grammy Awards, including Producer of the
Year. In the same month, a press release from Columbia
Records announced that Williams had signed a contract with the
label and would be releasing an album in 2014, entitled Girl,
featuring the single "Happy" from the Despicable Me 2 soundtrack.
For "Happy", Williams was nominated for the Academy Award for
Best Original Song. In February 2014 Major Lazer announced they
would be releasing a five-track EP titled Apocalypse Soon on the
25th of that month. The EP, released via Mad Decent and Secretly
Canadian, will feature Williams and Sean Paul, among others. The
first single off the EP, which features Williams, is titled "Aerosol
Can". Williams contributed a verse to Future's February 2014
single "Move That Dope", which also featured Pusha T and Casino
over production from Mike Will Made It.
On February 18, Williams announced via Twitter that his second
album, Girl would be released on March 3, 2014. At the86th
Academy Awards on March 2, 2014, Williams's song "Happy" lost
to "Let It Go" from Frozen. Afterwards, when GQmagazine asked
Williams "how badly" did he want the Oscar, he responded: "When
they read the results, my face was...frozen. But then I thought about
it, and I just decided just to...let it go."
The Dear Girl Tour was a European concert tour, in support of his
second studio album, Girl. It was Williams's first solo tour since
2006.
On March 31, 2014, Williams was announced as a new coach for
the seventh season of The Voice, replacing CeeLo Green. On May
18, 2015, Team Pharrell had 16-year-old Sawyer Fredericks win
the eighth season of The Voice. In June 2014, it was announced that
Williams would make a guest appearance on the docuseries Sisterhood of Hip Hop. Williams was the executive producer of
Atlanta rapper T.I.'s ninth studio album, Paperwork, which was
released on October 21, 2014 by Grand Hustle and Columbia
Records. In May 2014, Williams curated an art show named after
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