![]() It’s so good, in fact, that it makes you wonder what anyone is doing singing “Happy Birthday to You,” and why so many of us persist in the habit despite compelling reasons to abandon it entirely. It’s joyous and effervescent it has beds of smooth’ 80s synths and is, absurdly, almost six minutes long. Wonder’s “Happy Birthday” is extremely delightful. “Black people (me and my entire family, for instance) have been singing it at birthday parties for decades… It’s infinitely cooler and more soulful than the white thing that may have inspired it.” “Yes, the black ‘Happy Birthday’ is real,” she writes. In 2016, Aisha Harris wrote a paeon for Slate about what she simply calls “the black Happy Birthday song,” which, she discovered when she informally polled them, her white friends had almost uniformly never heard of. Indeed, black families all over America have tended to prefer “Happy Birthday” to the white-favoured “Happy Birthday to You,” defaulting to it in unison each year. “Saturday night is givin’ me a reason to rely on the strobe lights / The lifeline of a promise in a shot glass, and I’ll take that / If you’re givin’ out love from a plastic bag,” Ed sings on the chorus, as his friend turns to new vices in hopes of feeling better.Noah’s was not the only family to substitute Wonder’s ballad for the traditional. In the second verse, Ed sings about the role of grief in his friend’s plight and his dwindling faith in prayer. He continues by adding that this person is feeling the weight of having disappointed his father and doesn’t have any friends to rely on in this difficult moment. “I overthink and have trouble sleepin’ / All purpose gone and don’t have a reason / And there’s no doctor to stop this bleedin’ / So I left home and jumped in the deep end,” Ed Sheeran sings in verse one. ![]() Unable to find any solutions, this friend seeks a last resort in a party and the vanity that comes with it. Ed Sheeran tells the story of his friend and the myriad of troubles he is going through. “Plastic Bag” is a song about searching for an escape from personal problems and hoping to find it in the lively atmosphere of a Saturday night party. It's a very hopeless song because it reflects real life. that is going on in the world, often run by huge yet nearly invisible organizations, corporations, and 'leaders'. While our lives are often shielded, we're in our own protective bubbles, or protective helmets like the one Thom wears, if we look a little harder we can see all the corruption, lies, manipulation, etc. He'd rather die peacefully right now than live in this cage. But there is seemingly no way out but death. politicians and businessmen, perhaps) is not the way to live. This boring, "perfect" life foisted upon us by some higher powers (not spiritual, but political, economic, etc. In the video, his helmet is slowly filling up with water, drowning him. On No Surprises, the narrator is realizing how this life is killing him slowly. People are being used by those in power "like a pig in a cage on antibiotics"-being pacified with things like new phones and cool gadgets and houses while being sucked dry. But in Fitter, Happier the narrator(?) realizes that it's incredibly robotic to live this life. We're told to strive for some sort of ideal life, which includes getting a good job, being kind to everyone, finding a partner, getting married, having a couple kids, living in a quiet neighborhood in a nice big house, etc. Same ideas expressed in Fitter, Happier are expressed in this song. ![]() We'll make the dream become a reality (happy birthday)īecause our hearts tell us so (happy birthday) That lives in all of the hearts of people (happy birthday) Is in the dream that you had so long ago (happy birthday) Of those who lived and died for the oneness of all people That they should make it become an illusion Than to have a world party on the day you came to be
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