“Happy Days” by blink-182

"Happy Days" was the third single from Nine, blink-182's eighth studio album, and it landed in 2019 as a brooding thing in a hurry, an up-tempo track chewing on frustration. Mark Hoppus built its idea out of his own struggle with anxiety and depression, and the writing credits also list Travis Barker, producer Tim Pagnotta and Sam Hollander. Hoppus and Matt Skiba share the vocals over Skiba's guitar, Hoppus's bass and Barker's drums, and Neal Avron mixed it.

The video caught the moment, shot in quarantine during the COVID-19 pandemic: the band playing from home, cut together with fans' clips of daily life, pets and hand-washing included. It earned blink a pair of nods at the 2020 MTV Video Music Awards, the band's first there in nearly two decades. Critics were split, and the only charts it reached were British rock ones, where it made the top 20.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.