Happy has been named the most played song on British radio in the 2010s – and its infectious positivity makes it strangely appropriate for the coronavirus crisis
It feels like a bit of a sick joke dropped in the midst of coronavirus: it was announced on Monday that Pharrell’s Happy was the most played song on British radio in the 2010s, according to data from music royalties organisation PPL.
Even the luckiest people during the crisis, the natural introverts who haven’t faced health problems and already had a really good ergonomic desk chair to work from home with, aren’t likely to be a Happy kind of happy. The song evokes that rare combination of latent contentment and acute joy, the kind of feeling you have walking home after having sex with someone out of your league, or past some cherry blossom after three pints. It feels obnoxious to be reminded of it now. The ambient hum of anxiety we all now hear at a greater or lesser volume puts the song into a different key – and yet, perhaps it can still chime with our current moment.
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