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“Happiness” is the second single from The 1975’s fifth studio album, Being Funny in a Foreign Language.
The track, which is full of horns and jazzy percussion, returns to a sound that fans of The 1975 are more familiar with, in contrast with the album’s experimental lead single “Part of the Band”.
It serves as an introduction to the consistent theme ofBeing Funny in a Foreign Language, one that expresses opinions about love, happiness and appreciation.
The official video depicts frontman Matty Healy turning off a stereo which was playing “Part of the Band”, before breaking into song and dancing as “Happiness” begins to play.
“‘Happiness’ is where we acknowledged that there was a certain lyrical and sonic identity to what The 1975 was. We felt like it wouldn’t be a ’75 record if we didn’t have a song that owned what we did best. The thing is, we weren’t actually very ’80s; we just used loads of sounds that grunge and Britpop made unfashionable because they were associated with Phil Collins or whoever, but we were like, ‘No, that sounds better than that.’ It’s a live record, so there’s a lot of call-and-response, a lot of repetition, because we were in the room, jamming.“
– via Apple Music (October 14, 2022)
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.”
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