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thesaltwatersolution t1_ja8fv9q wrote on February 27, 2023 at 4:52 PM

Shiny Happy People - R.E.M.

It’s most likely about everyone being prescribed Prozac in the 90’s - there’s no time to cry… happy, happy…

and/ or it could be a phrase that Michael Stipe found on a mistranslated CPP propaganda poster about the student protestors at Tiananmen Square that described them as Shiny Happy People…. meet me in the crowd…