So, last week I mentioned that I would be giving you all the low-down on my debut rap / R&B album, "Single, Sexy, Free", which will be released early next month. Monday, December 14 - put it in your diaries!

I have been into my music for a long time now. You could almost say that it has been as big a part of my life as football. As a kid, I remember my mum would always have music playing around the house. I guess I must have absorbed some of that; it must have rubbed off on me somehow.

Until I was about eleven years-of-age, I actually wanted to be a pop star when I grew up, even more so than a top Premier League footballer. I even went to music lessons at school, despite the fact that the only instrument they had left was the flute.

After three years, I worked out that although I could play a hauntingly beautiful rendition of Greensleeves, it was never going to be of much use in the world of R&B.

It was about this point that I started to get more interested in football and music sort of went on the backburner for a while as my career took off in the Premier League.

But recently I have started to get itchy feet and have really fancied getting back into music in a big way. So I asked a DJ friend of mine to help me out, to hook me up with some people to see how far I can take this thing.

Of course, I'm still in the prime of my footballing career and there is no way I am thinking of jacking it all in. You don�t walk away from a £25k-a-week contract just like that.
But you have to realise something: Pharrell Bell is a born ACHIEVER. Even though I have reached the very top as a professional footballer, that isn't enough for me. Pharrell Bell does not rest on his laurels. He has to move on, to try to reach the glorious snow-capped peak of another mountainous achievement.

It's like Lance Armstrong. He was the best cyclist ever. Won the Tour de France a hatful of times. What did he do once he had retired? Started marathon running - and ran 2h 46m.
That's the sort of character I am. Never satisfied. Always pushing myself on to bigger and better things. And that's really the difference between Average Joes like you, and colossal figures like Lance and me.

So, over the past few months I have been writing myself a bunch of songs. They are really personal to me, you know. Like all the best songs, the lyrics really come from the heart and I have drawn my inspiration from the classic artists: Boyz II Men, 3T, Craig David, Mariah Carey.

Once I had my lyrics perfected, I hit the studio with a producer and some musicians and we laid down some tracks. I'm well pleased with the results. I think it is some really cutting-edge stuff that is going to take the music industry by storm.

Although the producer and I are still making a few last-minute tweaks to the album, I really wanted to share a little piece of it with my thousands of loyal fans here at ESPN Soccernet as a thank you for coming back and reading my blog every week.

So here are the lyrics to the title track of the album, "Single, Sexy, Free".

I'm a single kinda person.
I get on with my life on the pitch,
But I like dancing on a Sunday, girl
And in the week I like to see my bitch.
Ooh, I like to contemplate girls.
My mind gets straight in a whirl.
Boom boom shake da boom-boom-boom!
Boom boom shake da boom-boom-boom!

I'm not too fond of Groupies,
And I really hate Guns,
But I'm happy once again,
When I just think back to those nightclubs,
Boom boom shake da boom-boom-boom!

I know it is difficult to picture the song in your head without the music, but what do you reckon? It's got a definite groove to it, don't you think? And the dancefloors are going to go wild when you hear my flute solo in the middle.

Like I said, however quickly the album takes off, it isn�t going to affect my football career at the moment. But I wanted to show the world that I am more than just a top Premier League star, that I have hidden depths that are waiting to be explored.

And when you see and hear a musical talent like mine, it just puts into ridiculous perspective it is that shows like The X-Factor are promoting talentless nobodies like the Jedward twins.

It actually makes me sick just thinking about it.

Until next week,

PB.