Happy

Album: No One Else Can Wear Your Crown (2020)
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Songfacts®:

  • Oh Wonder wrote this song in Los Angeles with Sasha Sloan (Louis Tomlinson's "Just Hold On," Camila Cabello's Never Be the Same"). The lyrics are about Oh Wonder's Anthony West being happy for his ex-girlfriend after she got married. His bandmate Josephine Vander Gucht explained to The Sun: "His response was genuine pleasure that she had found someone."
  • The song's mad music video finds Oh Wonder splitting up, embarking on solo careers, and getting back together when they're 80. They then play a reunion gig in a nursing home performing in full prosthetics.

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