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| Studio album by Alexia | ||||||||||
| Released | 1999 | |||||||||
| Genre | Europop | |||||||||
| Label | Sony Music | |||||||||
| Producer | Robyx | |||||||||
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Happy is the third studio album by Italian singer Alexia released in 1999,[1] and would be her final studio album to be written and produced by Robyx and the DWA team. The album continued to see Alexia have a broad range of styles, though the move away from eurodance was not as dramatic as it had been with The Party. It was Alexia's first album on the Sony Epic label. Alexia's management team had boasted that every track on the album was good enough to be released as a single,[2] yet only two tracks were released as singles.
Initially, "Change Your Life" was planned as the lead single,[3] but instead "Goodbye" was released. "Happy" followed as the second single. Sony Music Finland announced plans to release "Baby Baby Baby" as the third single in early 2000,[4] though DWA denied this.[5] No record can be found of the track being released physically or as a radio promo, though the Italian Alexia Wikipedia page lists the song as a radio promotional CD[6] and the track was included on Alexia's Hits album.
All the tracks on the album were written by Alexia and Robyx except "Shake You Up" which was written by Francesco Alberti and Andrea Fascetti. The album went gold in Italy a month after its release.[7]
Release [link]
The album was released on CD, cassette and Minidisc through Epic, firstly in Italy in late August then throughout Europe (Sony Code 494999). The Canadian release was in February 2000.[8]
Track listing [link]
- "Happy" - 3:14 (Alessia Aquilani; Roberto Zanetti “Robyx”)
- "Change Your Life" - 3:08 (Alessia Aquilani; Roberto Zanetti “Robyx”)
- "Goodbye" - 3:01 (Alessia Aquilani; Roberto Zanetti “Robyx”)
- "Baby Baby Baby" - 3:12 (Gianni Bini; Marco Galeotti)
- "Te Amo" - 3:34 (Alessia Aquilani; Roberto Zanetti “Robyx”)
- "Giddy Up" - 2:49 (Alessia Aquilani; Roberto Zanetti “Robyx”)
- "I Want You" - 3:23 (Alessia Aquilani; Roberto Zanetti “Robyx”)
- "Save A Prayer" - 3:41 (Alessia Aquilani; Roberto Zanetti “Robyx”)
- "Shake You Up" - 2:40 (Andrea Fascetti; Francesco Alberti)
- "Close To You" - 2:42 (Alessia Aquilani; Roberto Zanetti “Robyx”)
- "The Rain" - 3:27 (Alessia Aquilani; Roberto Zanetti “Robyx”)
- "Let The Music Play" - 3:00 (Alessia Aquilani; Roberto Zanetti “Robyx”)
References [link]
- ^ "Alexia - Happy (CD, Album) at Discogs". Discogs.com. https://www.discogs.com/Alexia-Happy/release/512858. Retrieved 2012-02-20.
- ^ "Archive news- April 2000". Reocities.com. https://reocities.com/Hollywood/agency/3562/newsapr2000.html. Retrieved 2012-02-20.
- ^ "Archive news April 1999". Reocities.com. https://reocities.com/Hollywood/agency/3562/newsapr1999.html. Retrieved 2012-02-20.
- ^ "Archive news- January 2000". Reocities.com. https://reocities.com/Hollywood/agency/3562/newsjan2000.html. Retrieved 2012-02-20.
- ^ "Archive news- February 2000". Reocities.com. https://reocities.com/Hollywood/agency/3562/newsfeb2000.html. Retrieved 2012-02-20.
- ^ "Discografia di Alexia - Wikipedia" (in (Italian)). It.wikipedia.org. 2011-12-17. https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discografia_di_Alexia#Singoli_.28Radio_Promo_Cd.29. Retrieved 2012-02-20.
- ^ "Arcgive news- October 1999". Reocities.com. https://reocities.com/Hollywood/agency/3562/newsoct1999.html. Retrieved 2012-02-20.
- ^ "Happy discography". Reocities.com. https://reocities.com/Hollywood/agency/3562/happyalbumdiscography.html. Retrieved 2012-02-20.
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Happy (disambiguation)
To be happy is to experience happiness: a feeling of contentment or joy.
Happy may also refer to:
Film and television
Music
Bands
Albums
Songs
Happy (Michael Jackson song)
"Happy" is a song recorded by Michael Jackson for the Motown label in 1973. The song featured on Jackson's album Music & Me. Its full title is "Happy (Love Theme from Lady Sings the Blues)", although it was never featured in the film or the soundtrack for Lady Sings the Blues. The song was released as a single in Australia, backed by "In Our Small Way".
Jackson continued to perform the track in concert as late as 1977, citing it as one of his favorite songs.
The song was not released as a single in the UK until 1983 to promote Motown's 18 Greatest Hits compilation album, on which the song was included. Upon its release, "Happy" (credited to Michael Jackson plus The Jackson 5) peaked at #52 on the British pop chart. It was also issued as a single by Bobby Darin and included on his posthumous Motown LP Darin: 1936-1973. It was later recorded by the song's composer, Smokey Robinson, and appeared on his landmark solo album A Quiet Storm.
According to Robinson, the song was inspired by the film's melody, which was originally composed by Michel Legrand. He explained, "I was looking at the movie one day, and I was listening to that melody, and I thought it was just such a beautiful melody, until I wanted to write some words for that melody, which I did, and I went and I sang them for Berry Gordy, and he was really upset because I didn't write them before he finished the movie so they could've been in the movie."
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Only to find that there was noone there but me
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I found myself silenced by those things they say
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And i realised its not worth running from anymore
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Thats where ill find myself
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But i woke up to real life
And i realised its not worth running from anymore
When there was nowhere left to hide i found out
That nothings real here but i wont stop now until i find a better part of me