We were allowed to build small groups of 2-3 people and choose our own song. We went with “Another brick in the wall”
My school banned that song from ceremonies after every class chose it for like 5 years straight.
This gives me Director Skinner vibes :D
“Are our students unhappy? Are we out of touch? No! It’s the kids that are wrong!”lol yeah there was some of that happening. Although to be fair, we were a bunch of idiots… we chose the same song as the previous year (bohemian rhapsody). Talk about apathetic
I like the implication that Toto Africa has no rhythm whatsoever lmao
But fucking “happy” does???
Possibly apocryphal anecdote, but Pharrell may have created happy to be the most soulless, unimaginative song to be like this is the garbage you producers want, and the producers loved it. Cannot stand that fucking song. Sounds like something Bruno mars would write on purpose
“It was only until you were out of ideas and you asked yourself a rhetorical question and you came back with a sarcastic answer. And that’s what ‘Happy’ was,” Williams said. “How do you make a song about a person that’s so happy that nothing can bring them down? And I sarcastically answered it and put music to it, and that sarcasm became the song. And that broke me.”
Pharrell in an interview. So you’re right pretty much. It was created for Despicable Me 2 so the movie folks had veto rights and he couldn’t make something he actually would’ve wanted to make
If you wanted to torture secrets out of me, that song would be the way to do it.
Clap along
But I DON’T feel like a room without a roof!
Im seeing a lot of hate, but these are both good songs.
Happy:
- upbeat and celebratory
- fun to dance to
- a nice contrast to pomp and circumstance
Africa:
- cool instruments
- fun to sing along to
- a classic rock song from the 80s
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.
https://www.npr.org/2024/10/07/nx-s1-5001928/pharrell-says-his-hit-happy-came-from-a-sarcastic-place
Shit like this is why I didn’t attend either of my graduations and got married in front of a preacher and two friends
Did it cure what’s deep inside?
when posting this comment, did you think:
I know that I must do what’s rightSure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti.
Are you frightened of this thing you’ve become?
Oh I really misunderstood the point I thought this was some kind of old persons home, and they organised some sort of walk outside with music…
There’s something deeply unsettling to know that there’s someone out there who genuinely thinks Happy is better than Africa
I actually can’t think of a worse choice, maybe wheels on the bus or some other nursery rhyme? Even that would at least feel subversive
I mean Africa is pretty cringe too
sare-en-get-EEEEEEEE
How does it feel to actually have a scientifically proven wrong opinion? ~I’m just fucking with you. Please don’t get angry, my comment stands but it still just a joke bro~
Hahaha wrong Africa
Look, if you can’t bless the rains down in Africa, I don’t think we can be friends anymore
If I did I’m afraid it would magically stop raining
Baby Shark
Nyan cat
Or crazy frog
https://youtu.be/Ha3PktcY5yA (invidious). Don’t use any of the songs mentioned, just this video. On loop.
Or crazy frog
Finally someone with taste
Nyan cat slaps
I hate the song Africa by Toto, absolutely can’t stand to hear it. Anything even silence would be a better choice to walk out too.
I always thought that the lyrics were not only a total trainwreck from a rhythmic perspective, but pretty culturally insensitive, even for the 80s. the music itself was ok, but kinda simplistic in a repetitive, poppy way. like many 80s pop songs, it was obviously the product of too much booze, coke, and resultant self-confidence.
obviously the product of too much booze, coke, and resultant self-confidence
And that’s exactly how Toto got the gig doing the soundtrack for the 1984 version of Dune.
The whole soundtrack sounds like something you could compose with a cheap synth keyboard
It was an expensive synth keyboard back in the '80s though.
I mean, it’s an expensive synth today too. You ever seen what pro 80s synths go for today?
I was so medicated that I don’t remember what I “walked out on…” I guess it was Pomp & Circumstance or something, right?
I rather listen to farts than the happy song
Pretty sure he wrote it on purpose to be stupid as hell just to prove he could.
As a non-American, I was very confused for a bit. Why are senior citizens needing to pick songs? What are they graduating from?
Senior student in high school. 12th grade
Senior is also the word to describe students in the 12th grade, the final year of high school.
So, Vampires… (related to op, I swear)
If holy water works against vampires, why not purify a humidifier?
Better yet, know why you don’t see any vampires in Africa? Because Toto already blessed the rains down in Africa.
Better yet, know why you don’t see any vampires in Africa?
Thievery Corporation begs to differ: Vampires
There’s so much “teachers pet” ink just dripping off this paper, I can smell it through my phone
One of my classmates was part of a bagpipe group so he and his group played our graduation. Fantastic choice actually.
https://youtu.be/MH9FyLsfDzw?is=tHK_alGkOAlLvD1X
Metal cover all the way
You left the google tracking tag on the link, everything after the ?is and itself are a tracker that google ads to youtube links do that they know who watched a video you shared, and they then connect those accounts, even going as far as making one’s liked videos become the other’s suggested videos
Here’s the link cleaned up: https://youtu.be/MH9FyLsfDzw
Thanks!
This sing is the one weird al parodied right?
Weezer also covered it, in which Weird Al also performed. Not sure if we are talking about the same thing.
In turn, Toto covered Hash Pipe.
Weird Al did parody the song, yes
What’s Weird Artificial Intelligence? It sounds interesting.
It’s…… weird…….
I’m starting to like this Weird guy
It’s a shame he had that affair with Madonna and then died.
Really sucked after Michael Jackson did a knock off of one of his songs…
Happy is a song devoid of soul. I saw someone bring up that if he released this song today, he would probably be mobbed.
Too bad Pharrell went this route. I really enjoyed him in N.E.R.D.
If I’m bitten by a zombie
I’m probably not telling you!
Funny enough N.E.R.D. also has a song called “Happy” but it’s definitely a different vibe than his more famous song of the same name. This one’s happy because an ex-lover is finally out of the singer’s life and their life is now so much better for it.
I learned from Lemmy a while ago that Pharell wrote “Happy” as a bit of a sarcastic jab, so I think it’s intended to be devoid of soul. Don’t get me wrong, I hate the song. But I enjoy that little tidbit
That adds a layer of irony to the AI generated corporate koolaid version I was subjected to at work.
Did you not hear his work all over the Clipse or Tyler albums last year?
I’m still salty that my choice of “Living La Vida Loca” was unanimously voted against so that we could have “I’m Still Standing”
