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[–] 72 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Why's he wearing Smokey the Bear's hat

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  • [–] 87 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (16 children)

    Edit to add higher resolution image:

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  • [–] 16 points 2 months ago (10 children)

    It was the all-caps. She had to take both hands off the wheel to capitalize the whole word. tsk tsk

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (9 children)

    You can double tap shift to turn on caps lock on your phone

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    Sigh, ok.

    SHE WAS ON A LAPTOP, BRUV!

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    If that's a reference/meme, it's above my pay grade.

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  • [–] 42 points 2 months ago (5 children)
  • [–] 26 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    "Movie: no outside food

    Me, concealing a rotisserie chicken"

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  • [–] 30 points 2 months ago (11 children)

    Never forget that he also shares responsibility for 2013’s 'Blurred Lines' by Robin Thicke.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    I forgave this song for existing once it gave us Weird Al's Word Crimes.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago* (5 children)

    Get Lucky was on the air at the time too

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (4 children)

    Ugh I always hated that song, the lyrics are so stupid coming out of Pharrell's mouth, it makes no sense.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Sorry but get lucky is a banger

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (2 children)

    It's an earworm for sure, it's just also one of the most vapid, insincere, pandering pieces of pop nonsense ever written. And that's even taking into consideration the existence of Maroon 5 and modern country music.

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  • [–] 29 points 2 months ago

    Happy by Pharrel vs Happy? by Mudvayne

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  • [–] 24 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Pharrell with that Arby’s looking ass hat.

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  • [–] 23 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    We could try to whoop him, but he’s got a truncheon, a handgun, and a small Christmas ham hidden in his hat and he knows how to use them. They make him happy, you see.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    I'd be happy too if I had a Christmas ham hidden in my hat

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago* (2 children)

    Better have some tin foil under there too unless you want your head soaked in ham juices.

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  • [–] 52 points 2 months ago

    Fkn hated that song at the time anyway 😆

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  • [–] 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

    Imagine if Bruno Mars made "I wanna be a billionaire" in 2026

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago

    I think about the song, "lifestyles of the rich and the famous" by good Charlotte

    Lifestyles of the rich and the famous

    They're always complainin'

    Always complainin'

    If money is such a problem

    Well they got mansions

    Think we should rob them

    And I wonder if Benji and Joel still believe what they said... Because I still believe it

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  • [–] 15 points 2 months ago

    That hat alone would merit a paddlin'.

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  • [–] 42 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    Man, I fucking hate that song. "Happiness is the truth", god, what pseudophilosophical bullshit. It really is the manifestation of all that thoughtless feel-good philosophy pushed by hyper-captitalist dickheads.

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  • [–] 71 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    I've heard Pharrell agrees with this read. From what I've heard, he was contracted to write a song for something and the execs kept turning him down, so in his frustration he wrote the most shallow cheerful song he could. He thought they'd recognize that and reject it to, but they loved it.

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  • [–] 38 points 2 months ago* (2 children)

    I was surprised by this because it sounds like one of those internet stories that isn't true, or was morphed so many times after multiple retellings. But a quick search shows me that this is completely true:

    https://www.npr.org/2024/10/07/nx-s1-5001928/pharrell-says-his-hit-happy-came-from-a-sarcastic-place

    WILLIAMS: Well, after nine times of, you know, nine nos, like, nope, doesn't work, doesn't work, doesn't work, doesn't work, doesn't work, doesn't work, doesn't work, then I had to kind ask myself a rhetorical question. How do you write a song about someone that's so happy that nothing can bring them down? I'm paraphrasing. And the song ended up being the sarcastic answer to that.

    TIL

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago*

    Kinda like how Sara Bareilles wrote "I'm not gonna write you a love song" in response to the execs asking her to write a love song and it was a hit. Now that I think of it, maybe this is a common excuse for artists who write corporate slop. They just blame the system and plead for "irony."

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    Well he didn't mean for it to be sarcastic really

    Yeah, it's sarcasm. But I didn't realize that I was being sarcastic. It just was - like, that was just my sarcastic response to my rhetorical question. And it was just like, OK, let me just go with this. And before you knew it, it was that.

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  • [–] 21 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    i wonder what kind of song would capture the cultural zeitgeist now, if he were to write it...

    because yeah it definitely would not be 'happy'

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    I'm not even Fappy these days.

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    Is he cosplaying as a RCMP?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Hell, I wasn't even happy in 2014-ish when that song was raging. I think I went to the hospital for suicidal stuff that year BECAUSE I'M HAPPYYYYYYY 🎵

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    Now we know how he truly felt when he wrote the song.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago*

    Stomp along if you feel unhappiness is the truth...hey hey

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago

    Someone has a case of the mondays!

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago

    I already found it distasteful at the time ngl

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    Happiness is a room without a roof

    yeah no, homeless-ness ain't no bag of laughs, it's a bag of dicks

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    You were just younger then.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago

    Being "happy" in the US in 2014 is fucking insane.

    I left in 2004 because of how bad things were getting- a decision that has been continually justified every day since.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    This was around the time of the 08 housing bubble collapse, a lot of people were dealing with worse working conditions and the sheer number of breakups and divorces that occurred in 08 still surprises me. Fuck Pharell and the wave of shitty music around that time, always seemed to be punching-down music intended for the entertainment of the criminal managerial class.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 months ago

    Its a known phenomenon, seen with Shirley Temple during the depression as example. People tend to want entertainment counter to the world state.

    Its how I know we are in clown world times, since not even this indicator seems to play out anymore.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

    They are happy, OTOH. Happy in seeing how much further the West despairs and sinks in the quagmire of misery.

    You're just giving them excuses to laugh at your despair.

    A person who was demoralized is unable to assess true information, the facts tell nothing to him. Even if I shower him with information...he will refuse to believe it...that's the tragedy of the situation of demoralization.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

    I don't get it.. Did I miss something?

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