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The song's second verse, "Show me a word that rhymes with pavement/And I won't kill your parents and roast them on a spit," is a joke description of the word "depravement," with Malkmus describing the line as "the kind of thing you write when you're feeling cocky and you think it's a b-side [sic]."
Rhyme Genie 2.0 was released in May 2010 to introduce a selectable songwriter dictionary compiled from more than 100 million words in over 600,000 song lyrics. [4] An updated intelligent rhyme algorithm now distinguishes between primary and secondary stress in words to find more near rhymes with greater accuracy.
In the United Kingdom, the song is best known in the version by comedian and singer Ken Dodd. Dodd's recording, arranged by Ivor Raymonde and released on EMI's Columbia label, reached number 31 on the UK Singles Chart in 1964. Although not one of Dodd's biggest chart hits, it became known as the comedian's signature song. [2] [3]
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“Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth because I’m happy…” are just the words to spark joy and Pharrell Williams has just the pop song to do it. Listen Here 54.
In 1999, MTV ranked the video itself at #20 for The 100 Greatest Music Videos Ever Made [6] and VH1 ranked the song at #7 on their list of the 40 Greatest Hip Hop Songs of the 90s. [7] In 2021, Cleveland.com ranked the song as number 110 of the best 200 rap songs, calling it "one of the great miracles of Nineties hip hop."
The song was written and produced by Busta Rhymes, and contains co-production by Flipmode Squad member and Busta's hype man Spliff Star. The original version of the song, "Turn It Up", was an album track on When Disaster Strikes and almost completely different from the remix version, sampling soul singer Al Green's song "Love and Happiness".
"Happiness" is an upbeat dance-pop song, influenced by house music. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The song has a "simple, pleasant melody" and has been described as an "upbeat track tinged with full good electronica". [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The music used was Deadmau5 's " Brazil (2nd Edit) ", [ 3 ] which was re-edited for the vocals by Stargate.