So PHARRELL WILLIAMS and RICK RUBIN are sitting around talking on the lawn at Rubin's SHANGRI-LA studio and Pharrell is talking about how songs make him feel and how important it is for him to understand those feelings and how when he hears an amazing chord progression what he notices isn't the chords but the way the chords make him feel, "and I'm trying to remember that feeling, because when I go to chase it later, I'm gonna have to reverse engineer the feeling to get to the chord structure." OK, he also SHAZAMs it; he's human. But anyway, he'll eventually be at a recording desk trying "to figure out if we can build a building that doesn't look the same but makes you feel the same way." This, he casually mentions to Rubin, is how he wrote "BLURRED LINES." Doesn't look the same. Doesn't sound the same. Does feel the same. Says he. A jury famously disagreed, but you already knew that. Pharrell and Rubin sitting around talking is a master class in how a certain kind of producer might listen to, absorb and, in turn, create music. And then it turns into a postmortem discussion of what Pharell and his lawyers might have done wrong in the courtroom and what the infamous case may or may not mean for how music gets made—Pharrell swears he hasn't changed his process at all—and then Rubin casually suggests he make a documentary. "Just explain to people how it works, what you did, what the rules historically have been and what impact this decision has on the history of music." Do any documentary filmmakers read MusicREDEF? Because, yeah, it would be a fantastic documentary and someone should make it. Title: Can't Copyright a Feeling. For now, we have this mesmerizing interview about the creative process, which in this case turns out to be at least as much about listening as it is about creating. There's a lesson in there. (Also, both men have speaking voices that could double as tranquilizer guns, and if it wasn't for the bizarrely random PRADA ads that keep breaking the spell, I'd use this video as a sleeping aid)... KANYE WEST's JESUS IS KING is #1 this week on the BILLBOARD 200 (his ninth straight #1 debut) as well as the Top Christian Albums and Top Gospel Albums charts, which gives us a chance to ask the two questions Kanye's musical conversion raises: Does anyone really like Kanye West as a gospel rapper? And does anyone really believe him? MusicSET: "Kanye West Wants to Make America Gospel Again"... Don't mess with dragons. Especially the imaginary kind. SEBASTIAN GORKA, a onetime adviser to PRESIDENT TRUMP, learned that the hard way Monday when YOUTUBE deleted his channel, apparently the result of him repeatedly playing IMAGINE DRAGONS songs on his radio show and uploading the shows to YouTube against the enforceable wishes of the band... More of the best of the decade: The eighth best album of the '10s, per STEREOGUM, was SKY FERREIRA's 2013 alt-pop masterpiece NIGHT TIME, MY TIME. The ninth best, according to CONSEQUENCE OF SOUND, was ST. VINCENT's 2011 jagged emotional breakthrough STRANGE MERCY. I'd mention their #1s, but I already have, several times each, as everyone else's retrospectives have been rolling in. They don't call it a hivemind for nothing. MusicSET: "Alright Alright Alright: The 2010s in Music"... RIP MERCYFUL FATE bassist TIMI HANSEN.