Happiness

## Music video

**"Happiness"** is a song by British pop rock band The 1975. The song is the second single from the band's fifth studio album, *Being Funny in a Foreign Language*. The single was released on 3 August 2022.

## Background

During an interview with Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1, Matty Healy described the making of "Happiness":

*"'Happiness' is like… there’s literally loads of us in the room on that track. Locked eyes… doesn’t really have much structure. It came through like jamming. And we haven’t done that in like years. So we just wanted this record to be really like a captured moment and not be too constructed and even produced that much…. We did it in like a day or so. And it’s us having fun. And I think that there’s this real desire in art to see something remarkable with as little technology as possible."*
## Composition

"Happiness" is a disco song. It was written by band members Matty Healy and George Daniel with DJ Sabrina the Teenage DJ. Healy, Daniel, and Jack Antonoff serve as its producers. The song is performed in the key of B major with a tempo of 118 beats per minute in common time. The band's vocals span from F♯4 to G♯5 and follows a chord progression of B–G♯m7–F♯–B–G♯m7–D♯m7.

## Lyrics

*Confidence is comical*

*An' I'm, an' I'm happy*

*That's what I like*

*I'm happiest when I'm doing something that I know is good*

*That's happiness for me*

*I'm happiest when I'm doing something that I know is good*

*That's happiness for me*

She showed me what love is

Now I'm actin' like I know myself

Oh, in case you didn't notice

Oh, oh, I would go blind just to see you

I'd go too far just to have you near

In my soul, I've got this feeling I

Didn't know until I seen ya

My, my, my, oh

My, my, my, you

Mind my mind, you

Mind my mind, oh

My, my, my, you

Mind my mind, oh

My, my, my, she's insatiable, is what she is

Her body's like a modern art

Take it out in front of me

I'm gonna stop messin' it up because I'm

Feelin' like I'm messin' it up because I'm

Callin' out your name and God help me 'cause

Oh, I'm never gonna love again, hey

I'm never gonna love again, hey, oh

Show me your love, why don't you?

Grow up and see

Show me your love, why don't you?

Grow up and see

Show me your love, why don't you?

Grow up and see

Show me your love, why don't you?

You met me at the right time

Met me at the right time, oh

Show me your love, why don't you?

Oh, oh, oh

*Confidence is comical*

*An' I'm, an' I'm happy*

*That's what I like*

*I'm happiest when I'm doing something that I know is good*

*That's happiness for me*

She showed me what love is (Showed me what love is)

An' now I'm actin' like I know myself (Actin' like I know myself)

Oh, in case you didn't notice (Ooh-ooh)

Oh, oh, oh, I'm never gonna love again, hey

I'm never gonna love again, hey, oh

Show me your love, why don't you?

Grow up and see

Show me your love, why don't you?

Grow up and see

Show me your love, why don't you?

Grow up and see

Show me your love, why don't you?

## Personnel

* **Produced by:** George Daniel, Jack Antonoff, Matthew Healy
* **Assistant mixing engineer:** Jeremie Inhaber, Robin Florent, Scott Desmarais
* **Assistant sound engineer:** Dani Perez Carasols, Dom Shaw, Freddy Williams, John Rooney, Katie May, Liam Hebb
* **Bass:** Ross MacDonald
* **Drums:** George Daniel
* **Guitar:** Adam Hann
* **Mastering engineer:** Robin Schmidt
* **Mixing engineer:** Chris Galland, Manny Marruoquin
* **Sound engineer:** Andrew Gearhart, Dave Gross, Evan Smith, Jon Gautier, Laura Sisk, Oli Jacobs
* **Vocals:** Matthew Healy

## References

1. ↑ Being Funny in a Foreign Language by The 1975 on Apple Music
2. ↑ Matty Healy, of The 1975, on "Happiness" on Apple Music