Sita: Happy
Happy is a song I saw back in March (2002) on various German music channels. And, well,
I quite like it.
I have created this little bit of my website because when looking for information on Sita and
the song, most of what I found was not in English. It appears Sita is a dutch duo? As for getting
the song, I'm sure I could have found an MP3 if I followed a hundred dead links,
amazon.co.uk told me it was a special import, 3 to 5 weeks to get it.
Upon returning from France (went for the middle two weeks of April), Amazon says it'll be
released on the 6th of May, and an employee of WHSmith (Farnborough) tells me Amazon get stuff
two weeks in advance of WHS. I'm not bothered, just glad the song is going to be released in the
UK.
Here follows lyrics to the song (in typewriter style text), and a frame from the music
video accompanying the words. Oh, and my comments in italics.
We open with a slow tracking shot into a seemingly bleak house surrounded by serious sky. It
looks like a place I saw in Cornwall once, near Quacombe (sp?) farm. Or, it could be a scene from
the movie "Paperhouse" if Ridley Scott had directed it.
The house, the landscape, the sky... I suspect it is entirely CGI.
- There's a man sittin' down by the 405
- Hittin' some kind of tune on his ravin' guitar
- He seems stranded in a dessert of a million dreams
- Just like life hasn't been exactly as nice as it seems
- Hello, how are you?
- Why are you looking so sad on a day like this?
- Do you feel like talking?
- Now you got me started!
I wanna see a smile upon your clueless face, yeah yeah!
You could be so happy, on this brand new beautiful day
Pay attention to the mirror.
- You could be so happy, like kids getting ready to play
- Come on and bring it on, on and on
She shakes her head around weirdly at this point...
- Nothing that you do is wrong
See what I mean about the mirror? :-)
- Come along and don't drag it on
You can be so happy
- You say your girlfriend is pretty
- She's waiting at home
Got a safe job
- And you can call a little house and a Chevy your own
It all seems perfect, but ain't perfect - just as boring as hell
Note the plant growing up the side of the house.
The video is full of stuff like that... did you catch the leaves on the tree?
- And now you're stuck just like a snail in its shell
- All that matters is that you can be free to live your life the way you sincerely feel it
- Cause life's too short
You don't wanna be a prisoner of your own illusions
See that thing up top left? It gets a bit weird now...
- And I shout it out...
You could be so happy, yeah you got somebody to love
- You could be so happy - ain't that good enough
- Ain't no use to sit and drag it on, thinking about the mess you've done - nothing's wrong,
just bring it on
- You could be so happy, you got somebody to love
- Nah-nah nah nah nah nah, nah
- Nah nah nah nah nah
- Nah-nah nah nah nah nah, nah
- Nah nah nah nah, nah
That floating thing bursts into the room...
- Nah-nah nah nah nah nah, nah
...and in a flash of light she goes all Lara Croft on us...
- Nah nah nah nah, nah
...and kick's the floaty-thing's ass.
(what's this floaty thing got to do with anything anyway?)
- Nah-nah nah nah nah nah, nah
- Nah nah nah nah, nah
You could be so happy, on this brand new beautiful day
This is where the little animation up the top of the page is taken from.
- You could be so happy like kids getting ready to play
- Come on and bring it on, on and on
- Nothing that you do is wrong
Come along and don't drag it on
You can be so happy, ain't that good enough
Ain't no use to sit and drag it on, thinking about the mess you've done; nothing's wrong, just
bring it on
- You could be so happy, you got somebody to love
- I see a man sitting down by the 405
- Got a smile on his face, thinking "What a wonderful life"
And she closes the window. End of song. End of document. Bye!
<geek>
Images recorded from analogue satellite broadcast (original Astra) onto VHS with a reasonable
(6 head and hi-fi audio) VCR. This was replayed into a field buffer that captured the first
field of the frame, in 32 thousand colours, all image decoding being performed entirely in
software. The images were repaired for slight decoding errors using the program described
here, and then scaled
1:2 and converted to JPEG at 78% quality.
</geek>
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Images digitised from the German MTV:2 by Richard Murray (April 2002).