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NoTagBacks@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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.

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AppleTea@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
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.

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- ABasilPlant@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I was surprised by this because it sounds like one of those internet stories that aren’t true, or were morphed so many times after multiple retellings. But a quick search shows me that this is completely true:
  
  npr.org/…/pharrell-says-his-hit-happy-came-from-a…
  
  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.
  
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  - gandalf_der_13te@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
    oh the irony to be successful with exactly that
    
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