Ya'll use the term "classic" too freely. In My Mind was not a classic. IMO it was a horrible album. And I'm a Neptunes fan.
He had a huge year last year but mainly off of features on other songs. Blurred Lines was the biggest song of the summer but that was co written by Robin Thicke. Get Lucky was a huge record but that was composed by Daft Punk and had the funk brought by the legendary Nile Rodgers, Pharrell just wrote and sang lyrics. What I'm trying to get at is last years "successful" year of Pharrell was off the talent of others, he didn't have a huge solo record. Same with his success as a producer, he was huge when he partnered with Chad, but he fell off when he went solo. He hasn't shown that he can put out a solo project successfully, like for example a Kanye.
And LOLLLLL at the dude saying that Pharrell is a Marvin Gaye without the vocals. Marvin Gaye writing and composing >>>>>>>>> anything this dude has done.