• Pharrell Williams told Zane Lowe's Apple Music interview series that writing "Happy" broke him.

 

• Williams said writing "Happy" for "Despicable Me 2" came from a place of sarcasm.

 

• He said the song's success made him realize his insignificance in the universe.

 

 

 

"You didn't wake up one morning and decide you were going to make a song about an emotion," Williams said, referring "Happy."

 

Williams said that he wrote nine songs for the scene in "Despicable Me 2" where Gru is on top of the world after a first date, but his ideas was rejected.

 

"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."

 

Williams said the song's success opened his eyes to his insignificance in the universe.

"It's so crazy for us to think like as individuals, everything comes from us. Your ideas, everything that you get, is coming from a library of existence. Nothing is new under the sun," Williams said, adding that he credits the universe for the success of "Get Lucky" and "Blurred Lines" too.

 

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And that damn song broke my eardrums.

One of the worst songs ever made

The Earth is healing. Let's leave that song in the past. 

I use to be a MASSIVE Neptunes/pharell fan. But the majority of his work after  his work on beyonces self titled has disappointed me. 
 

this song and most of his songs he made with ariana (minus rem that's a masterpiece) were some of the worst songs ever created

Ironic that a song called " Happy" can make me so fckn annoyed! 

Edited October 13, 20242 yr by LatinFreak

I remember this playing while I was on a train station and I wanted to jump in the rails

This song broke us too

So he knew what he was doing when he wrote it but released it anyway… arrest him!

God i still remember that year it came out. Literally every radio station i turned had the damn song playing.... at some point the 3 main radios stations in Australia were ALL playing it at the SAME DAMN TIME 

it broke me too

You can feel the brokenesss in that song. Cant be too bad though, he made millions off a song that was basically an inside joke for him 

Edited October 13, 20242 yr by Afterglow

You couldn't escape the song back then. I'm glad it broke you. 

31 minutes ago, Rush said:

This song broke us too

shame on you, this is literally a masterpiece 

4 minutes ago, Breathe On Moi said:

shame on you, this is literally a masterpiece 

no, it's not.

It is one of the most shameful pieces of garbage that is considered music. I can't believe Pharrell sold out and bent over to the highest bidder with this one. 

1 hour ago, itshyolee said:

And that damn song broke my eardrums.

 

I bet he wasn't too depressed to cash the checks for that song. 

 

Y'all doin too much actin like some musical notes destroyed your life. Your worlds are so small. 

What broke me is the pattern of four chords before he starts signing (or anyone else he's producing) in every single song.

It broke us either at some point. 

This has to be my most hated song in history. 

I'm so sorry he feels that way. Must be awful being him 

i love that song sonically but the lyrics are annoying as hell  

 

also this song birthed the likes of Can't Stop the Feeling

music for kids films tend to be overly saccharine & corny but i did like some of the songs he made for for the first despicable me movies as a kid