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Pharrell Williams Confesses His Massive Hit 'Happy' Was Actually Born Out of Sarcasm

Pharrell Williams reflected on three of his biggest hits, "Happy," "Get Lucky" and "Blurred Lines" being made in the same year, and the toll these "commissions" took on him in an interview with Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1.

"When I was about 40, that's when 'Get Lucky,' 'Blurred Lines,' 'Happy', all of that was the same year," the 51-year-old multihyphenate recalls regarding his collaborations with Daft Punk and Robin Thicke, respectively. During the interview, Williams recalled completing the soundtrack for the children's film Despicable Me 2, created with Heitor Pereira, and running out of ideas. Per Forbes and CNN, the track also went on to be declared the most-played song on British radio in the 2010s and even held the record for longest music video at one point, sitting at 24 hours long until Twenty One Pilots smashed the record in 2020 with a 177-day-long video.

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