Happy

Album: Bread And Circuses (2011)
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Songfacts®:

  • This was the first song recorded for Scottish indie rock band The View's third studio album Bread and Circuses. Said lead vocalist Kyle Falconer to the NME: "This is the first complete song we demoed and got us back into 'album mode' after touring Which Bitch. I originally wrote it on the bass and it used to be much slower. We were listening to a bit of Iggy Pop and also The Clash's London Calling and decided to mould into more of a 'Passenger' vibe. We tried to record this quite a few times, it took a while before we got the tempo exactly how we imagined it."
  • Falconer explained the song's meaning to the NME: "The essence of the song is that male-female relationships can sometimes get overly dependent, and everything in each person's life can have a massive effect on the others."

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