Songs about happiness: the good mood themed playlist
Music greatly affects our moods. It comforts us, accompanies us in the most important, difficult and happy moments of our life and makes us reflect on various aspects of everyday life. Both in the Italian and international panorama there are songs that deal with the most disparate ranging from love to the problems of society. Today we wanted to create a sort of playlist containing the best songs about happiness ever.
Before starting, however, did you know that listening to your favorite music is one of the ways to quickly find your good mood?
Songs about happiness in Italian
The first part of our good mood themed playlist sees all songs in Italian. Some of these focus on cheerful and rhythmic sounds, others, on the other hand, deepen the various aspects of happiness with intimate and sometimes melancholy phrases and aphorisms.
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Lucio Dalla, Happiness
Let's start with a song that expresses the concept of happiness not so much with its sonorities and the accompaniment of music, but through its lyrics. Happiness is a song from the album From / Morandi of 1988, the result of the collaboration between the two famous Italian songwriters. Unlike the other songs, Happiness it is performed only by Lucio Dalla and is a truly noteworthy piece. Melancholy and intimate, the piece shows the ephemeral character of happiness, which in an instant there is and then suddenly disappears.
Ah, happiness,
on which night train you will ride.
I know it
that you will pass,
but as always in a hurry
you never stop.
Negrita, What is the noise of happiness?
Became a real hit in the summer of 2008 and subsequent years, What is the noise of happiness? is a piece by Negrita that tries to explain this state of mind within a love relationship. No relationship is always rosy, but if there is a strong and sincere feeling, the couple can cross the various obstacles that society and everyday life offer every day.
What is the noise of happiness?
As opposites that attract
Like lovers embracing
We still walk together
Above the evil, above the good.
Al Bano & Romina Power, Happiness
This iconic piece by Al Bano and Romina Power could not have been missing in our section of songs about happiness in Italian. Happiness it was published in 1982, on the occasion of the Sanremo Festival where it obtained the second place. His text explains how this positive feeling can be found in the little things of every day, precisely those that we may tend to take for granted, but which, on the other hand, are always able to make us smile and make us feel good again.
Happiness
It's a glass of wine with a sandwich, happiness
Happiness is leaving you a note in the drawer
It's singing in two voices how much I like you, happiness
Happiness.
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Samuel Bersani, ask me if I'm happy
Already from the title we recognize its origin. ask me if I'm happy by Samuele Bersani is part of the soundtrack of the "homonymous and famous film by Aldo, Giovanni and Giacomo. A bit" as for the piece by Lucio Dalla, here too the singer-songwriter asks himself about the short duration of happiness, although it always leaves a memory of oneself, although a love may end and one no longer experiences that condition of joy and happiness as in the past.
Happiness, sudden dizziness
Optical illusion, opportunity to be taken
Park it without arrows or triangle
Everyone is already asleep and the lights went out.
Domenico Modugno, In the blue painted blue
We close the Italian part of our playlist with one of the most famous songs in the history of Italian music. In the blue painted blue it was released in 1958 on the occasion of the Sanremo Festival of that year. Domenico Modugno presented it together with Johnny Dorelli, who not only won the Festival, but also made the piece a worldwide success in the following years. The text, set in a dream and in dreamlike atmospheres, it highlights the feeling of happiness with lightheartedness and contagious joy.
Fly oh, oh
Sing oh, oh
In the blue painted blue
Happy to be up there
And I flew, I flew happily higher than the sun
And even higher
While the world slowly disappeared far down there
Sweet music played just for me.
Songs about happiness in English
Let's now pass to the international songs. From Queen to the Beach Boys, one thing is guaranteed: when you listen to their sentences, you have an unparalleled charge of positivity!
Queen, Don't Stop Me Now
Scientific research has shown how Don't Stop Me Now is the song that manages, more than all the others, to raise morale. Written by Freddie Mercury for Jazz, Queen's seventh studio album from 1978, this track is full of adrenaline and good humor in both the music and the lyrics. In fact, Freddie Mercury tells with very explicit phrases his euphoria and happiness of that period, his desire to have fun and his feeling good like never before.
Don't stop me now,
I'm having such a good time,
I'm having a ball.
Don't stop me now,
If you wanna have a good time,
Just give me a call.
Pharrell Williams, Happy
As soon as the opening notes are heard, it is impossible not to start singing the chorus and feel a rush of positive energy. Not by chance, Happy by Pharrell Williams achieved great success around the world in 2013, the year of its publication. It is a song that offers a unique dose of enthusiasm and its fame is also due to its participation as the soundtrack of the animated film. Despicable Me 2 and numerous awards won, including a Grammy Award for best pop performance.
(Because I'm happy)
Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof.
(Because I'm happy)
Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth.
(Because I'm happy)
Clap along if you know what happiness is to you.
(Because I'm happy)
Clap along if you feel like that’s what you wanna do.
Bobby McFerrin, Don't Worry, Be Happy
The phrase "Don't Worry, Be Happy " ("do not worry Be Happy") it was, initially, one of the most famous aphorisms and phrases of the Indian master Meher Baba of the early twentieth century. This motto was taken up by Bobby McFerrin in 1988, who used it as the theme of one of his most famous songs, with his notes at the crossroads between reggae and jazz. It is an invitation not to worry: even in the most difficult, you can be happy.In short, happiness is seen as an antidote to all evil and sadness.
Ain "t got no cash, ain" t got no style
Ain "t got no gal to make you smile
Don "t worry, be happy
"Cause when you worry your face will frown
And that will bring everybody down
So don't worry, be happy.
Beach Boys, Good Vibrations
Famous for being the founders of Surf Rock, the Beach Boys released this song, Good Vibrations, in 1966, a very different piece from the previous ones. Both the music and the text are engaging and immediate: they immediately attract the listener, dragging him into an extremely positive atmosphere. That's why, even if the term "happiness" was not explicit, this piece could not be included among the most beautiful songs about "being happy."
Close my eyes, she "s somehow closer now
Softly smile, I know she must be kind
When I look in her eyes
She goes with me to a blossom world
I "m pickin" up good vibrations
She "s giving me excitations (oom bop bop).
The Rolling Stones, Happy
Written by Keith Richards and published in the early 1970s, Happy is the version of happiness according to the Rolling Stones. How to be happy for the London group? Simple, breaking some rules and throwing yourself into a love without complications.
Always took candy from strangers
Didn "t wanna get me no trade
Never want to be like papa
Working for the boss every night and day
I need a love to keep me happy
I need a love
Baby, won't you keep me happy?
Baby, won't you keep me happy?
The best phrases and author quotes about happiness
But what is happiness really? This is probably one of the hardest questions to answer. Many writers and philosophers have tried to define this state of mind, but it never came to a single definition. So, we have collected the most famous aphorisms and phrases on the theme of happiness.
Happiness and peace of heart arise from the awareness of doing what we deem right and right, not from doing what others say and do.
Mahatma Gandhi
Happiness does not consist in buying and enjoying, but in not desiring anything, because it consists in being free.
Epictetus
Many people miss out on small joys in the hope of great happiness.
Pearl S. Buck
Happy is the one who demands from life no more than what it spontaneously offers him, letting himself be guided by the instinct of cats, who seek the sun when there is the sun and when there is no sun, heat, wherever it is. .
Fernando Pessoa
The three essential elements for happiness: something to do, something to love, something to hope for.
Joseph Addison
No one is happy without having an illusion, illusions are as necessary to our happiness as real things.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Happiness lies in taste and not in things; we are happy because we have what we like, and not because we have what others find pleasant.
François de La Rochefoucauld
You will never be happy if you keep looking for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
Albert Camus
Happy beings are calm and peaceful. They carry their heart within themselves as if it were a full glass that the slightest movement can cause it to overflow or break.
Jules Barbey of Aurevilly
Happiness is the final and perfect fruit of obedience to the laws of life.
Helen Keller
Wealth, fame, you can lose everything, but this happiness in the depths of your heart can only be veiled, and will always be renewed as long as you live. As long as you can look at the sky without fear, know that you are intimately pure and that you will still be happy again.
Anne Frank
I know no greater happiness than being with you all the time, without interruption, without end.
Franz Kafka
Only by becoming aware of our role in life, however small, will we be happy. Only then will we be able to live in peace and die in peace, because only this gives meaning to life and death.
Antoine De Saint Exupéry
Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but happiness and growth lie in the path of climbing it.
Confucius
Happiness is not something ready-made, but it comes from your actions.
Dalai Lama
