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.
Imagine if Bruno Mars made “I wanna be a billionaire” in 2026
I’m not even Fappy these days.
Hell not even a little somber horney
watch?v=ZsUDBTiz8gs WORK WORK WORK WORK
Oh my!
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 🎵
Kind of amazing people didn’t beat his ass back then. Radio music is ass.
Stomp along if you feel unhappiness is the truth…hey hey
Now we know how he truly felt when he wrote the song.
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
Well he didn’t mean for it to be sarcastic really
Yeah, it’s sarcasm. But I didn’t realize that I was being sarcastic. It just was - like, that was just my sarcastic response to my rhetorical question. And it was just like, OK, let me just go with this. And before you knew it, it was that.
oh the irony to be successful with exactly that
"Movie: no outside food
Me, concealing a rotisserie chicken"
Oh we’re doing memes en espanol now?
*míms
Huehuehue
Pharrell with that Arby’s looking ass hat.
That hat is actually an entire Arby’s sign.
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.
Pharrel and Thicke got credits on the Weird Al version. They get a share of the royalties.
Get Lucky was on the air at the time too
Ugh I always hated that song, the lyrics are so stupid coming out of Pharrell’s mouth, it makes no sense.
He must be brought to justice
They are happy, OTOH. Happy in seeing how much further the West despairs and sinks in the quagmire of misery.
You’re just giving them excuses to laugh at your despair.
A person who was demoralized is unable to assess true information, the facts tell nothing to him. Even if I shower him with information…he will refuse to believe it…that’s the tragedy of the situation of demoralization.
Touch grass
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.
I’d be happy too if I had a Christmas ham hidden in my hat
Better have some tin foil under there too unless you want your head soaked in ham juices.
If I’m keeping all that in my hat, I’ll definitely line it with foil. How else would I stop them from stealing my thoughts.
Edit to add higher resolution image:
It was the all-caps. She had to take both hands off the wheel to capitalize the whole word. tsk tsk
You can double tap shift to turn on caps lock on your phone
I can’t reach the shift key with one hand
I have a s25+ and I almost always type with one hand. I am faster typing with two thumbs, but it’s not easier, just faster.
She was on a laptop bruv
Sigh, ok.
SHE WAS ON A LAPTOP, BRUV!
If that’s a reference/meme, it’s above my pay grade.
This gives me such an indescribable feeling. Woe and mirth, regret and pride, delight and disgust - indivisible. Is this how being a cenobite feels?
Happiness was her truth 😔
But not having a working brain, apparently. You gotta be real dumb to post shit while you’re driving.
Is this real???
As real as anything on the Internet. 🤷
Fkn hated that song at the time anyway 😆
Crappy
