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[–] 91 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (16 children)

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  • [–] 16 points 1 month ago (10 children)

    It was the all-caps. She had to take both hands off the wheel to capitalize the whole word. tsk tsk

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago (9 children)

    You can double tap shift to turn on caps lock on your phone

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    [–] 75 points 1 month ago (7 children)

    Why's he wearing Smokey the Bear's hat

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    [–] 56 points 1 month ago

    Fkn hated that song at the time anyway 😆

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    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.

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  • [–] 75 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 40 points 1 month ago* (3 children)

    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

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  • [–] 31 points 1 month ago (11 children)

    Never forget that he also shares responsibility for 2013’s 'Blurred Lines' by Robin Thicke.

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    [–] 29 points 1 month ago

    Happy by Pharrel vs Happy? by Mudvayne

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  • [–] 25 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    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.

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    [–] 24 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Pharrell with that Arby’s looking ass hat.

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    [–] 22 points 1 month ago (6 children)

    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'

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    [–] 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

    Imagine if Bruno Mars made "I wanna be a billionaire" in 2026

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    [–] 16 points 1 month ago

    Is he cosplaying as a RCMP?

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  • [–] 15 points 1 month ago

    That hat alone would merit a paddlin'.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago

    I already found it distasteful at the time ngl

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago

    Someone has a case of the mondays!

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    [–] 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    I'm not even Fappy these days.

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