“Happy Song” by Bring Me the Horizon

"Happy Song" sits at the center of That's the Spirit, Bring Me the Horizon's fifth album from 2015, and it went out as the record's second single on 13 July that year. The band wrote it early on, before most of the album existed, and it sets the tone for the whole thing: Oliver Sykes's words are mostly about depression, wrapped in a hook that keeps repeating the title until it curdles, which is why it's often called the album's unofficial title track.

Sykes sings lead and produced it with keyboardist Jordan Fish, who adds electronics and backing vocals. Lee Malia's guitar riff does the heavy lifting alongside Matt Kean's bass and Matt Nicholls's drums, with Maddie Cutter on cello and William Harvey on violin. Critics singled out that heavier crunch and the riff, the song topped the UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart, and the band opened most of the tour with it.

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