This has been a very good year for Pharrell Williams, aside from the usual which includes a lot of good music produced (for major albums like Jay Z and Miley Cyrus’ ) and being directly involved with two of the biggest singles this year, Blurred Lines with Robin Thicke and Daft Punk’s Get Lucky, don’t forget that the pop impresario also got married (finally!) at the age of 40, to model Helen Lasichanh.
Pharrell, best known for his non-aging goodness and his amazing genre-melding music with N.E.R.D. and as a solo artist, recently recorded the song “Happy” for the new Despicable Me 2 soundtrack and has now debuted a record-breaking music video for the song. The video is 24-hours long!
24hoursofhappiness.com
A first of it’s kind, the interactive video was released on Thursday, 21st November at the stroke of midnight and is available for streaming at 24hoursofhappy.com. The video features various dancers lip synching and dancing throughout a single day while the four-minute song is played on a loop. Each loop of the song introduces a new dancer/singer who include anonymous dancers/extras as well as celebrities like Magic Johnson, Steve Carell and Pharrell himself.
To allow the video to be interactive, the video has a clock interface hovering above it which allows the users to fast-forward or rewind to different parts of the video and share any specific section they would like to in Twitter and Facebook. There are already non-interactive segments (up to an hour long) of the video posted on Pharrell’s YouTube channel which are also awesome to watch.
There is no better feel-good song than this one this year and I’m so HAPPY about the equally happiness-inspiring video.
So press play and sing along. 🙂
It might seem crazy what I’m ’bout to say
Sunshine she’s here, you can take a break
I’m a, Hot-air balloon that could go to space
With the air, like I don’t care, baby by the way
Because I’m Happy (clap along if you feel like a room without a roof)
Because I’m happy (clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth)
Because I’m happy (clap along if you know what happiness is to you)
Because I’m happy (clap along if you feel like that’s what you wanna do)
Here come bad news talking this and that
Well gimme all you got and don’t hold me back
Well I should probably warn you I’ll be just fine
No offense to you, don’t waste your time
CHORUS
Bring me down, can’t nothing
Bring me down, your love is too high
To bring me down, can’t nothing
Bring me down, I said
CHORUS x2
Bring me down, can’t nothing
Bring me down, your love is too high
To bring me down, can’t nothing
Bring me down, I say
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