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Why Pharrell’s Song “Happy” Made Him Happier Than Anyone · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. Farrell has written and
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Speaker 1: produced a seemingly unlimited amount of massive hits for other artists,
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Speaker 1: with many he appears on as a guest artist, but
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Speaker 1: he only has a handful of hits he's released as
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Speaker 1: a solo artist, and none bigger than his smash Happy,
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Speaker 1: which he just admitted to g Q made him so
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Speaker 1: happy and moved into tears. He explains, I wrote it
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Speaker 1: for sil I don't have the capacity to write that
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Speaker 1: kind of song for myself. Mine are always too complicated,
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Speaker 1: too smart with six bridges. I'm weird like that. But
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Speaker 1: the immense positive feedback it got me literally made me cry.
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Speaker 1: I was on opera for my birthday and she showed
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Speaker 1: me a video of people around the world singing that song,
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Speaker 1: and that messed me up bad. I was never the same.
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