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This gives me such an indescribable feeling. Woe and mirth, regret and pride, delight and disgust - indivisible. Is this how being a cenobite feels?
It was the all-caps. She had to take both hands off the wheel to capitalize the whole word. tsk tsk
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Man, I fucking hate that song. "Happiness is the truth", god, what pseudophilosophical bullshit. It really is the manifestation of all that thoughtless feel-good philosophy pushed by hyper-captitalist dickheads.
I've heard Pharrell agrees with this read. From what I've heard, he was contracted to write a song for something and the execs kept turning him down, so in his frustration he wrote the most shallow cheerful song he could. He thought they'd recognize that and reject it to, but they loved it.
I was surprised by this because it sounds like one of those internet stories that isn't true, or was morphed so many times after multiple retellings. But a quick search shows me that this is completely true:
https://www.npr.org/2024/10/07/nx-s1-5001928/pharrell-says-his-hit-happy-came-from-a-sarcastic-place
WILLIAMS: Well, after nine times of, you know, nine nos, like, nope, doesn't work, doesn't work, doesn't work, doesn't work, doesn't work, doesn't work, doesn't work, then I had to kind ask myself a rhetorical question. How do you write a song about someone that's so happy that nothing can bring them down? I'm paraphrasing. And the song ended up being the sarcastic answer to that.
TIL
Kinda like how Sara Bareilles wrote "I'm not gonna write you a love song" in response to the execs asking her to write a love song and it was a hit. Now that I think of it, maybe this is a common excuse for artists who write corporate slop. They just blame the system and plead for "irony."
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... man, that checks the fuck out. Actual artist versus corpo dipshits. Like, seriously, how are people of the ruling class such fucking losers?
Thank you for this, I actually find this kinda hilarious.
"Movie: no outside food
Me, concealing a rotisserie chicken"
Oh we're doing memes en espanol now?
*míms
Huehuehue
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Why's he wearing Smokey the Bear's hat
Its up to him now.
Only Pharrell can prevent forest fires… damn those damn cuts to the forestry service
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He's smuggling his own popcorn into the cinema.
he's covering up his 8head
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Fkn hated that song at the time anyway 😆
Imagine if Bruno Mars made "I wanna be a billionaire" in 2026
I think about the song, "lifestyles of the rich and the famous" by good Charlotte
Lifestyles of the rich and the famous
They're always complainin'
Always complainin'
If money is such a problem
Well they got mansions
Think we should rob them
And I wonder if Benji and Joel still believe what they said... Because I still believe it
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Never forget that he also shares responsibility for 2013’s 'Blurred Lines' by Robin Thicke.
I forgave this song for existing once it gave us Weird Al's Word Crimes.
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He must be brought to justice
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Pharrell with that Arby’s looking ass hat.
That hat is actually an entire Arby's sign.
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We could try to whoop him, but he’s got a truncheon, a handgun, and a small Christmas ham hidden in his hat and he knows how to use them. They make him happy, you see.
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Happiness is a room without a roof
yeah no, homeless-ness ain't no bag of laughs, it's a bag of dicks
You were just younger then.
Yea but its also worse now
Happy by Pharrel vs Happy? by Mudvayne
i wonder what kind of song would capture the cultural zeitgeist now, if he were to write it...
because yeah it definitely would not be 'happy'
How about "It's The End Of The World As We Know It"? :P
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Being "happy" in the US in 2014 is fucking insane.
I left in 2004 because of how bad things were getting- a decision that has been continually justified every day since.
That hat alone would merit a paddlin'.
Is he cosplaying as a RCMP?
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