![]() If this story sounds familiar, it's probably because you've already read some of it, perhaps in the New Yorker, the Village Voice, Rolling Stone, the Guardian, the Washington Post, or the New York Times. When the song ends, he compares its originality to that of the Wu-Tang Clan. Later that day, I watched the YouTube clip of my intern perched on a chair next to Pharrell, bobbing along as her song plays-" I was walking through icy streams that took my breath away," her voice croons over a laid-back beat of hollow drums and finger snaps-while the 11-time Grammy Award winner and master of everything that is cool looks on, increasingly shocked and impressed. Oh, and she'd also had a life-changing experience the week before: She'd presented one of her songs in a master class with Pharrell, that year's NYU Tisch artist in residence, and he'd loved it. A million girls would kill for this job! I thought.īut during her exit interview, I was reminded of all the reasons we wanted her in the first place: She was earnest, intelligent, and complimentary, as she said that seeing the passion ELLE's editors had for journalism and magazine making prompted her to realize that the thing she loved as much as we loved our work was not writing about music but making it. ![]() We accept only three or four interns each semester, and she'd already cut back her schedule to one and a half days a week. ![]() In April of last year, one of the ELLE interns asked if she could cut her 12-week internship short by a month a senior at New York University majoring in English and music production, she wanted to work on her big final project.
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