My Happiness (Powderfinger song)
“My Happiness” is a song by Australian rock band Powderfinger. It was released on record label Universal Music Australia on 21 August 2000 as the first single from the band’s fourth album, Odyssey Number Five. It peaked at number 4 on the Australian ARIA Singles Chart, number 7 on the New Zealand Singles chart, and charted in the United States on the Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart – reaching number 23. It won an ARIA Award and an APRA Award and topped the Triple J Hottest 100 in 2000.
About My Happiness (Powderfinger song) in brief
“My Happiness” is a song by Australian rock band Powderfinger. It was released on record label Universal Music Australia on 21 August 2000 as the first single from the band’s fourth album, Odyssey Number Five. The single is Powderfinger’s most successful; it peaked at number 4 on the Australian ARIA Singles Chart, number 7 on the New Zealand Singles chart, and charted in the United States on the Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart – reaching number 23. It won an ARIA Award and an APRA Award and topped the Triple J Hottest 100 in 2000. In January 2018, as part of Triple M’s \”Ozzest 100\”, the’most Australian’ songs of all time, \”My Happiness\” was ranked number 31. In June 2020, the song was certified 5x Platinum in Australia. The song describes feelings of love and separation; Sain’s Pennie Dennison said it described the pining feeling you experience when you spend time away from the one you love. Powderfinger frontman Bernard Fanning wrote the lyrics as a reflection on the time the band spent touring to promote their work, and the loneliness that came as a result.
The rest of the band are co-credited with Fanning for composing the track. Despite its melancholy mood,\”My Happiness” is considered by many to be a love song, a suggestion Fanning regards as mystifying. In response to being dubbed \”Mr Miserable\” by The Sun-Herald’s Peter Holmes, Fanning pointed out that the songs could be construed either as melancholy, or as the most hopeful record… in a long time. “If you don’t think there is enough rock in your life then let me know and I will personally come around to your house and chuck stones at you,” Fanning said in response to a question about the song’s emotional content. “My Happiness”‘s lyrics were inspired by Fanning’s love of gospel and soul music, which he said was common during the Odyssey Number 5 recording sessions. The band worked hard in those sessions to ensure a more polished work than Internationalist; Darren Middleton, The Metre & Down & Back Again and Down & Again were more ‘complete’ because of their efforts.
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