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Pharrell Williams: 'The success of 'Happy' is humbling'

Hitmaker and producer Pharrell Williams has revealed that he's still overwhelmed by the success of his single 'Happy'. 

During a new interview with Vanity Fair magazine, the 'Come Get It Bae' sensation explained that initially the song didn't get any airplay because it sounded so different to everything else at that time:

''Happy' had been out for eight months with no radio airplay because it didn't sound like an EDM song-and that's all radio was playing. That song would never have been the same song if it had been for my album, but because it was for an animation, the only thing I could do was to put pure emotion into it-make a song for a man just walking down the street with pure happiness because he fell in love for the first time."

He went onto add that shooting the music video for the track really cemented its place in popular culture: "We shot a video for it, and then the song became everyone else's. When you see that many people rallying behind an idea, and you realise you were used as a vessel to communicate, that's humbling."

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Watch the video for 'Happy' here: