2017Released
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This Lori McKenna ("Girl Crush") and Hailey Whitters penned song opens Little Big Town's seventh studio album, The Breaker. The feel-good track is full of wisdom about what it takes to be happy people. Happy people don't cheat Happy people don't lie They don't judge, or hold a grudge, don't criticize Happy people don't hate Happy people don't steal Cause all the hurt sure ain't worth all the guilt they feel "'Happy People' setting off the record, to me, is the perfect sentiment for what's going on in the world right now, and the things that are important, for us, anyway," Karen Fairchild said at a press event in Nashville. "I hope it brings some happiness to people right now in what feels like a very chaotic time."

Band member Phillip Sweet says this is a song about how you can't rely on others to make you happy. "It's a hopeful song, and it's really perfect for where the world is right now," he told Entertainment Weekly. "It seems like we're in a gigantic swirl of chaos."

In a Songfacts interview with Hailey Whitters, she explained how this song came together. "It was my first time writing with Lori McKenna," she said. "I went up to Boston, where she lives, and got out of Nashville. I like to go up a day early and just get settled, so I did that. I had never been to Boston, so I went walking around the city and realized very quickly it's a very expensive city. I was just a broke songwriter at this time, so I went to the park - I can't remember what park it was, but it was a beautiful, lush park in the center of what seems such a bustling city. And it felt like walking into that park, everything just kind of slowed down. There were couples sitting on blankets, dogs running and children laughing, and it was just this really serene slow-down in the middle of this big, bustling city. I just sat there and people-watched and felt the energy, and that title popped into my head. I logged it down in my catalog of ideas and the next day when I was writing with Lori I threw that title out to her and we just started writing that."

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Song Analysis

Key, BPM (tempo) and time signature of Happy People.
G♯Key
MajorMode
4/4Time Signature
160BPM

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The album Happy People is released on.

Released By

The record label that has released Happy People.
Capitol Records Nashville
© 2017 Little Big Town, LLC, under exclusive license to Capitol Records Nashville
℗ 2017 Little Big Town, LLC, under exclusive license to Capitol Records Nashville

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