Happy For You

**Happy For You** is RIELL's seventh release of 2023, as well as the sixth song off her upcoming album "Hymns For The Bitter". It was released July 21, 2023.

Listen to **Happy For You**

## Theme

"So you think you're over your ex and then suddenly you see that they have a new girlfriend, and then you're like, 'am I over my ex?'."

In a Discord QnA with Salvo, RIELL explained the context of "**Happy For You**: "Let me tell you the pettiest thing you are gonna hear today. I am confident this is the pettiest thing you'll ever hear. So, I wrote this song because I saw my ex's, like 8 or 9 months after we broke up, so it's been like a minute since we'd broken up, and I was over him, whatever. But then I logged onto discord and I saw in his discord profile that he had that he had the letter 'H' and then a '>' sign, saying 'H over' and then 'everyone else'. Which is why I wrote that song why I wrote the line 'I heard you're choosing her over everybody'. Because he said 'H > everybody'. And then it had like a heart in it, so it was a 'H ♥️> everybody", which is why the first line is 'I saw a letter with a heart in your bio'. And then, don't worry it gets pettier. In this music video, it's in a laundromat, so at one point in the song I'm like airing dirty laundry, so this is one of the things I air [a white T-shirt with "H ♥️ > everybody"] And right now, him and I are on good terms, so I'm gonna release this, and he's gonna be like, 'what the fuck?'. And then also this [a white T-shirt with 'it's just a joke'] 'cause he'd always say means things and be like, 'I'm just joking'."

## Lyrics

[Verse]

I saw a letter with a heart in your bio

And now it’s half a year since we last spoke

So why did it land like a knockout blow?

Oh I try but I spiral (here we go)

[Pre Chorus]

Do you know her favorite songs, make nicer jokes?

Do you dance around the kitchen and kiss her slow?

I heard you’re loving her the way you couldn’t love me

I heard you’re choosing her over everybody

[Chorus]

And now I try to be happy for you

I heard you found somebody, somebody new

And I know it’s the right thing to do

But you give her all the love, the love I gave to you

And it’s killing me, killing me

To be happy for you, I’m not happy for you

I try to be, try to be

So happy for you, I’m not happy for you

[Verse]

Guess I’m falling down the rabbit hole

Undoing all my moving on

Overthinking things I can’t control

Cause I could give the world and it’d be not enough

[Pre Chorus]

Do you take her on the scenic route when you drive?

Do you actually make an effort to treat her right?

I heard you’re loving her the way you couldn’t love me

I heard you’re choosing her over everybody

[Chorus]

And now I try to be happy for you

I heard you found somebody, somebody new

And I know it’s the right thing to do

But you give her all the love, the love I gave to you

And it’s killing me, killing me

To be happy for you, I’m not happy for you

I try to be, try to be

So happy for you, I’m not happy for you

[Bridge]

I think of you fondly to ease my bitter

But swallowing my pride has only made me sicker

I played it complicit while I was your crime

Did you learn without the time?

[Chorus]

I try to be happy for you

I heard you found somebody, somebody new

And I know it’s the right thing to do

But you give her all the love, the love I gave to you

And it’s killing me, killing me

To be happy for you, I’m not happy for you

I try to be, try to be

So happy for you, I’m not happy for you

## Background

* RIELL played half of the song in a Discord QnA event with Salvo on June 10, 2023. She initially said in this QnA that the song would be released on August 25.
* She announced that "Happy For You" would be the next song released on June 23, 2023, during an Instagram live for the "My Ghost" music video premiere, where she said the song would be coming July 14, 2023.
* A vignette for **Happy For You** was released on August 4, 2023, with a 20-minute pre-release stream taking place before the premiere.

## Sources

1. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhXv3MpZOrI