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GUEST POST FROM ALEX GOBRENKO I AM DEAD

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I think the song is not quite there...maybe if you change all the 'happy's to 'anxious' and 'clap along's to 'slap your face' it would be more authentically Alex Gobrenko?

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Alex.

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I can _hear_ this.

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Oh hey underscore does not make italics happen.

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4 words. You've got the goods.

You're now signed under exclusive contract to Labelabel for all performance and publishing rights.

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This is peak COVID lockdown energy

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My exact thought

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Mr Gobrenko. I'm just blown away by the deep questions this song faces down. do i really believe that happiness is the truth? what DOES happiness mean to me? all the while, the narrator of the song affirms again and again, "I'M happy," as if to palm the back of my head and grind my face down into the dirt of my own existential quandry. by the end of the song the listener is dazed by the sordid repetition of "happy, happy happy, happy", the word seems to lose all meaning. And then finishing the song with an instruction: 'clap along, if that's what YOU want to do.' we are left with the sense of responsibility.

happiness: it's in our hands, quite literally. but what do WE choose to do?

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what an earworm! sadly, it's only a matter of time before some big artist bites this and claims it as his own :(

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Wonderful!

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BWAHA, OMG...that song, though. Definitely a... different version. That was more like spoken word. LMAO

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Can I stop clapping now?

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more cowbell

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Sure, you didn't hear the Farrell song. Ever.

Do we have a different understanding of A cappella?

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Go-brenko!!

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This is so original. Like how did you arrive at this? (I laughed till I had to pause and catch my breath) Your talent is taking you places! You sing much better than Dobrenko.

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Sick

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