Getting sick of "Happy" |
Post Reply | Page 123 4> |
Author | ||
catnapped
Junior Executive Joined: 22 Nov 2011 Status: Offline Points: 212 |
Post Options
Thanks(1)
Posted: 24 Mar 2014 at 3:05pm |
|
Song is innocent enough but as usual, teh corporate sharks are co-opting it for every product or commercial they can shove down our throats making it become sickening after while (latest seems to be the ABC "Watch GMA" aka "TMZ Lite in the Morning" campaign). |
||
Sponsored Links | ||
Ad nauseous
Revolutionary Joined: 15 Apr 2008 Location: Connecticut Status: Offline Points: 23601 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
|
It's actually a depressing song if you think of the lyrics.
Not too long ago there was a video on MSNBC of a congressman dancing to the song. His last name was Lewis I can't think of the first name. I seriously could live without hearing this damn song! |
||
One good thing about TV-you could always turn it off
|
||
Thor
Revolutionary Joined: 16 Apr 2008 Location: Rockaway, NJ Status: Offline Points: 63905 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
|
I looked at the lyrics. They seem much like Don't Worry, Be Happy, except that that song was being sarcastic. I think, in this song, Williams means it. Otherwise, it's an okay song, I guess. |
||
Jimbo
Honor Roll Joined: 19 Apr 2008 Location: Florida Status: Offline Points: 56960 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
|
The song itself isn't bad but that stupid video has got to go.
If there is one thing that just grates on me, it is what passes for "dancing" nowadays & it's especially annoying when it is depicted in a montage of "regular folks" on the street, "doin' dey thang". And of course, the obligatory cute little kids & their spastic herking & jerking made it even less bearable. As a video concept, it is just hackneyed & worn out from overuse. I just wanted to reach in my screen & smack the snot out of a few of those goofy looking posers. |
||
...the ads take aim and lay their claim to the heart and the soul of the spender
Jackson Browne - The Pretender C'mon, man! Joe Biden - 46th President of the United States |
||
Ad nauseous
Revolutionary Joined: 15 Apr 2008 Location: Connecticut Status: Offline Points: 23601 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
|
Agreed! That video was way too damn long I was thinking "man, when will this video end?" Ugh, what a waste of my time! BTW I misheard a lyric when he said "clap along if you feel that happiness is the truth" I thought he said "clap along if you feel that happiness isn't truth" That got me screwed up! |
||
One good thing about TV-you could always turn it off
|
||
Snesgamer
Junior Executive Joined: 16 Oct 2008 Location: Aptos, CA Status: Offline Points: 3166 |
Post Options
Thanks(1)
|
|
Was in a car with someone for about an hour a few weeks ago - could swear this damn song came o n about 5-7 times during that ride - why do they insist on a top-40 format when obviously that isn't enough songs to fill a radio station?
|
||
Ad nauseous
Revolutionary Joined: 15 Apr 2008 Location: Connecticut Status: Offline Points: 23601 |
Post Options
Thanks(1)
|
|
Nononononono
Aw sh*t! "Happy" is one of the songs being sung on the Battle Rounds on The Voice! Ugh Hasn't this song had enough exposure in the media world? Sheesh! |
||
One good thing about TV-you could always turn it off
|
||
Snesgamer
Junior Executive Joined: 16 Oct 2008 Location: Aptos, CA Status: Offline Points: 3166 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
|
Just saw that posted on Wikipedia. I live on the West coast, so now I have an inkling for what I'm in for. |
||
catnapped
Junior Executive Joined: 22 Nov 2011 Status: Offline Points: 212 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
|
Fiat commercial
|
||
Thor
Revolutionary Joined: 16 Apr 2008 Location: Rockaway, NJ Status: Offline Points: 63905 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
|
It's worse than you thought. From Wikipedia: To coincide with the single release, the website 24hoursofhappy.com was launched featuring a visual presentation of "Happy" advertised as being "the world's first 24 hour music video". The video consists of the four-minute song repeated with various people dancing around Los Angeles and miming along. Williams himself appears 24 times on the hour, and there are a number of celebrity cameos including Whit Hertford (1:04am), Kelly Osbourne (1:28am), Magic Johnson (5:36am), Urijah Faber (8:36am), Sérgio Mendes (10:32am) and Jimmy Kimmel (11:48am), Odd Future (1:48pm), Steve Carell (5:08pm), Jamie Foxx (5:28pm), Ana Ortiz (5:32pm), Miranda Cosgrove (5:40pm), Gavin DeGraw (5:44pm), JoJo (6:16pm). The minions fromDespicable Me 2 make several appearances throughout the film, including one scene at 3:00am, in which Pharrell and the minions dance in a movie theatre that is playing the scene fromDespicable Me 2 in which "Happy" appears. A lone, one eyed minion also appears dancing to song in its entirety at 4:40pm. The site allows users to navigate to various points in the 24-hour timeframe, including all 360 four-minute segments and each hourly segment with Pharrell. An official four-minute edit of the video was also released on YouTube. The video's creative director wasYoann Lemoine.[20] The original video spawned many cover videos on YouTube in which people from different cities throughout the world dance along the song. Those videos are usually called "Pharrell Williams – Happy – We Are from [name of the city]".[21] |
||
Phoenix_Moon514
Junior Executive Joined: 03 Feb 2014 Location: USA Status: Offline Points: 108 |
Post Options
Thanks(1)
|
|
This WAS a decent song, considering the crap they play now…
But they played this one so much, it's completely lost its value! |
||
“The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.”
― Ayn Rand |
||
Thor
Revolutionary Joined: 16 Apr 2008 Location: Rockaway, NJ Status: Offline Points: 63905 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
|
^ I'd never even heard it before this thread. Maybe it's my age. It just never registered. |
||
EMCEE
Junior Executive Joined: 07 Feb 2010 Location: IL Status: Offline Points: 2731 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
|
I've been doing really well at avoiding all pop music. Even this one got to me. It's ridiculously omnipresent. |
||
Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
- Mark Twain |
||
PaWolf
Revolutionary Hoary Ol' Chestnut... doncha know.... Joined: 15 Apr 2008 Location: GreatWhiteNorth Status: Offline Points: 40769 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
|
Believe I stated in another thread how very sick of this song I got in one day. Wonder if this gent will be a one-hit wonder and if this is his normal style. I *could* simply listen to other stuff by him on spewtube, but I'm too sick of him. |
||
X <sig.nature>
"What we do for ourselves dies with us, What we do for others is and remains immortal." - Albert Pike |
||
Hootman
Revolutionary Joined: 15 Apr 2008 Location: Ohio Status: Offline Points: 8151 |
Post Options
Thanks(1)
|
|
Give me some classic Sinatra, and I'll be happy.
|
||
PaWolf
Revolutionary Hoary Ol' Chestnut... doncha know.... Joined: 15 Apr 2008 Location: GreatWhiteNorth Status: Offline Points: 40769 |
Post Options
Thanks(1)
|
|
<valid.CIH.spam>
Want Sinatra?
I have a huge stack of classic Sinatra LP's in perfect condition for sale.
Lot of early, hard-to-find ones.
No kidding.
I like your money, buy my Sinatra LPs. Today.
|
||
X <sig.nature>
"What we do for ourselves dies with us, What we do for others is and remains immortal." - Albert Pike |
||
Hootman
Revolutionary Joined: 15 Apr 2008 Location: Ohio Status: Offline Points: 8151 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
|
I gave my turntable to Goodwill years ago.
|
||
PaWolf
Revolutionary Hoary Ol' Chestnut... doncha know.... Joined: 15 Apr 2008 Location: GreatWhiteNorth Status: Offline Points: 40769 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
|
Same reason I'm dumping my LPs |
||
X <sig.nature>
"What we do for ourselves dies with us, What we do for others is and remains immortal." - Albert Pike |
||
Thor
Revolutionary Joined: 16 Apr 2008 Location: Rockaway, NJ Status: Offline Points: 63905 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
|
|
||
Snesgamer
Junior Executive Joined: 16 Oct 2008 Location: Aptos, CA Status: Offline Points: 3166 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
|
It seems like they're using this song as a placeholder theme for any situation that's supposed to represent the emotion "happy".
I've got news for you, ADD kiddies of today's generation - just because a song has that word in it doesn't make it so! In fact, at this stage they could rename the song "Annoyed", "Bored" or even "Angry" and it'd be more representative of how I feel when it plays now. |
||
zippyjet
Junior Executive Joined: 30 Nov 2010 Location: Baltimore, Md. Status: Offline Points: 1998 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
|
I'll take this song any day over Mambo # 5 and Gangnam Style for commercials. Not that this is my favorite, far from it.
|
||
I approve this message.
|
||
Thor
Revolutionary Joined: 16 Apr 2008 Location: Rockaway, NJ Status: Offline Points: 63905 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
|
^ I like Mambo #5, even the Disney and Party City versions. |
||
beeman77
Newbie Joined: 30 Mar 2014 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 1 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
|
Well don't you just sound like an old hermit... This "gent" has been making some great music for much longer than you may think. He formed a VA-based group called "N*E*R*D" and produces music for a lot of other artists. This song is just one of many greats he has made. Like many other songs that get radio airplay, it has been completely overplayed and oversaturated, hence losing its value. Check out some of his other work before you call him a one-hit wonder, Judgey McJudgerson.
|
||
Thor
Revolutionary Joined: 16 Apr 2008 Location: Rockaway, NJ Status: Offline Points: 63905 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
|
I just looked at his discography. Seems all his singles except for this one, are ones that "featured" someone bigger, or were ones he was "featured" on. I don't quite get this "featuring" phenomenon. Can these artists not stand on their own when it comes to making hit music? To me, it seems kinda gimmicky...a way for otherwise mediocre artists to establish a name. |
||
PaWolf
Revolutionary Hoary Ol' Chestnut... doncha know.... Joined: 15 Apr 2008 Location: GreatWhiteNorth Status: Offline Points: 40769 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
|
I think not.
If I want 'bubblegum for the brain', I'll choose whatever music I like - enjoy whatever style You like. Sorry I stepped on one of your heroes - well, no I'm not.
|
||
X <sig.nature>
"What we do for ourselves dies with us, What we do for others is and remains immortal." - Albert Pike |
||
Post Reply | Page 123 4> |
Tweet
|
Forum Jump | Forum Permissions You cannot post new topics in this forum You cannot reply to topics in this forum You cannot delete your posts in this forum You cannot edit your posts in this forum You cannot create polls in this forum You cannot vote in polls in this forum |