Why’s he wearing Smokey the Bear’s hat
We ain't happy anymore...
Submitted 2 weeks ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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Gork@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Its up to him now.
CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Only Pharrell can prevent forest fires… damn those damn cuts to the forestry service
saltesc@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
He’s smuggling his own popcorn into the cinema.
rem26_art@fedia.io 2 weeks ago
he's covering up his 8head
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
It’s the arby’s hat.
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Wabbit season
phant@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Fkn hated that song at the time anyway 😆
NoTagBacks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks 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.
AppleTea@lemmy.zip 2 weeks 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.
ABasilPlant@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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.
NoTagBacks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
… 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.
capuccino@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
eestileib@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
“Movie: no outside food
Me, concealing a rotisserie chicken”
pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Oh we’re doing memes en espanol now?
lemmygarden@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
I, too, took Spanish classes
jobbies@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Never forget that he also shares responsibility for 2013’s ‘Blurred Lines’ by Robin Thicke.
NOPper@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
I forgave this song for existing once it gave us Weird Al’s Word Crimes.
jobbies@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Pharrel and Thicke got credits on the Weird Al version. They get a share of the royalties.
itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
I thought that was “Tacky”?
decolo@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
He must be brought to justice
Eric@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Get Lucky was on the at the time too
PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Ugh I always hated that song, the lyrics are so stupid coming out of Pharrell’s mouth, it makes no sense.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
Happy by Pharrel vs Happy? by Mudvayne
Monument@piefed.world 2 weeks ago
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.
Gormadt@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
I’d be happy too if I had a Christmas ham hidden in my hat
qarbone@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Better have some tin foil under their unless you want your head soaked in ham juices.
WanderWisley@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Pharrell with that Arby’s looking ass hat.
Atropos@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That hat is actually an entire Arby’s sign.
HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Draegur@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
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’
MousePotatoDoesStuff@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
How about “It’s The End Of The World As We Know It”? :P
Widdershins@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Devin Townsend wrote “Shitstorm” over 20 years ago.
decolo@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
And what an incredible album opener. I have listened to alien front to back so many times and get something new out of it each time
tetris11@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
I’ve seen the future brother, it is murder.
Things are going to slide
slide in all directions
Won’t be nothing
Nothing you can measure anymoreThe blizzard, the blizzard of the world
Has crossed the threshold and it has overturned the order of the soulSlovene85@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Fuckin’ LOVE Leonard Cohen!
ChexMax@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
If you mean the zeitgeist in the US, is there a way to make childish Gambino’s This Is America more apathetic? Cause I think that’d be it
fipto@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Imagine if Bruno Mars and Travie McCoy made “I wanna be a billionaire” in 2026
lemmygarden@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
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
Emerald@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I want to be in the corner of a shitty livestream
Listening to my exes music, staring at the screen
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
My remix: “I wanna be a guillotine”
Asidonhopo@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This was around the time of the 08 housing bubble collapse, a lot of people were dealing with worse working conditions and the sheer number of breakups and divorces that occurred in 08 still surprises me. Fuck Pharell and the wave of shitty music around that time, always seemed to be punching-down music intended for the entertainment of the criminal managerial class.
M0oP0o@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
Its a known phenomenon, seen with Shirley Temple during the depression as example. People tend to want entertainment counter to the world state.
Its how I know we are in clown world times, since not even this indicator seems to play out anymore.
boonhet@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
God forbid people have entertainment not designed to make them feel like they could be unemployed tomorrow.
qarbone@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Pharrel’s song was specifically formulated to punch down on us plebs, donchaknow. So hating him for the song is mandatory.
PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It was a bit after that. This song came out in 2013. By that point the economy was better and housing was still reasonably affordable.
luciferofastora@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Pharell doesn’t deserve blame, according to this comment thread’s sources:
jumping_redditor@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
wasn’t 08 around the time houses went down in price, aka the best time to buy housing?
CanadianCarl@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Is he cosplaying as a RCMP?
REDACTED@infosec.pub 2 weeks ago
Y’all need some digital detox
Azazel@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Do I get to stress if it’s happening to me and my neighbors in my country perpetrated by my government?
return2ozma@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Hi, American here. My shit hole country is collapsing. Can I stress yet?
REDACTED@infosec.pub 2 weeks ago
Nope. 1/2 of the countries in the world are doing worse than US. Trump regime is temporary and US will not collapse.
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 2 weeks ago
With all due respect, go and take a flying fuck at a flying doughnut
REDACTED@infosec.pub 2 weeks ago
Imagine laughing at a meme of beating up someone for singing happy and then getting hostile after someone tells you that you might positively benefit from change in environment.
Feels like I went from 4chan to reddit and somehow back to 4chan
TomMasz@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
That hat alone would merit a paddlin’.
LSNLDN@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
I already found it distasteful at the time ngl
snoons@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Someone has a case of the mondays!
WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
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.
myyass@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’m not even Fappy these days.
slaacaa@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Crappy
lechekaflan@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
CalypsoGirl@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Hell, I wasn’t even happy in 2014-ish when that song was raging. I think I went to the hospital for suicidal stuff that year BECAUSE I’M HAPPYYYYYYY 🎵
nexguy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Stomp along if you feel like unhappiness is the truth…hey hey
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Now we know how he truly felt when he wrote the song.
hanrahan@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
Happiness is a room without a roof
yeah no, homeless-ness ain’t no bag of laughs, it’s a bag of dicks
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
You were just younger then.
MacAnus@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I don’t get it… Did I miss something?
Varesti@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Image
yakko@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
This gives me such an indescribable feeling. Woe and mirth, regret and pride, delight and disgust - indivisible. Is this how being a cenobite feels?
urthoughtsrbad@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Happiness was her truth 😔
M137@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
But not having a working brain, apparently. You gotta be real dumb to post shit while you’re driving.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
It was the all-caps. She had to take both hands off the wheel to capitalize the whole word. tsk tsk
Sludgeyy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You can double tap shift to turn on caps lock on your phone
Lumisal@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Is this real???
Varesti@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
As real as anything on the Internet. 🤷