During a recent interview with Apple Music's Zane Lowe, Pharrell Williams revealed that he wasn't happy while working on his hit track Happy. The soundtrack which was featured in Despicable Me 2, "broke" the singer.
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The singer recalled the time when he was about 40 and wrote three hit songs, Get Lucky, Blurred Lines, and Happy all in the same year, and said that he "just woke up one day and decided I'm going to write about X, Y and Z.
"I had written 9 songs that were rejected. It was only until you were out of ideas, and you asked yourself a rhetoric question, and you came back with a sarcastic answer, and that's what 'Happy' was. 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."
The song was nominated for an Oscar, won a Grammy for best music video, and topped the Billboard Hot 100 for 10 weeks in 2014. Billboard also marked the track as the best-selling song of 2014, and it ranked 21st on its 2010 decade-end chat.
Pharrell Williams agreed that his song Happy was annoying
In 2022, one X user took to the platform bashing Pharrell Williams' Happy by saying, "No song annoyed me like Happy by Pharrell did." Other users shared the feeling and the tweet got thousands of likes and tweets. Pharrell Williams also reposted the tweet, responding to the comments by saying "Same."
After the song gained recognition, US publishers Harlan Coben and Meg Rosoff, announced Williams as their new celebrity recruit. Putnam Books for Young Readers in 2015, nearly a year and a half after the song's initial release announced that the singer has signed up for four picture books, starting with a book inspired by his song Happy.
The book will feature photographs of children from all around the world, "celebrating what it means to be happy."
While recalling the moment he wrote Happy for Despicable Me 2, Pharrell Williams in his recent interview with Lowe added saying,
"It's so crazy 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."
Pharrell also wrote Daft Punk's Get Lucky and Robin Thicke's Blurred Lines.
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