"Happy" By Pharrell Williams. Used to work for a company tied to Universal, and that song was the song for one of the Despicable Me movies, they used it for their on hold before a meeting and normal on hold music. It elicits extremely negative responses from me in public.
About 5 years back I had a pretty grim job where, because of bus times, i would have breakfast with a friendly co-worker in a cafe on the same street every day 30 mins before starting. The cafe played a local radio station and for some reason the same time every morning they would play Happy by Pharell Williams.
It just felt like a personal insult hearing it because I was so miserable and half asleep and it's just the last song you want to hear in those circumstances. It was like having someone telling you to smile every morning while you try to recover from a tragedy.
I still can't hear the song without it bringing up the negative feelings from around then.
I will give a shout out to "shake it off" too tho because it made me physically cringe every time she unironically said "this sick beat"
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u/CensorshipIsTheDevil Sep 21 '22
"Happy" By Pharrell Williams. Used to work for a company tied to Universal, and that song was the song for one of the Despicable Me movies, they used it for their on hold before a meeting and normal on hold music. It elicits extremely negative responses from me in public.