I love this song because it’s about seeing someone who you were with move on and be really happy for them. And I probably wouldn’t have been able to write this song, you know, on my first or second record cause I don’t feel like I probably would have grown as a person or as an artist, to be able to see someone that you loved move on or I would have found it like difficult. And so yeah, you write as a form of therapy, whatever it is in the moment. But I felt like I’ve definitely changed so much from who I was in my first album to who I am now emotionally. And I’ve grown and I’ve matured, and I think you just find the sense of happiness and optimism, and this kind of carefree energy of ‘what’s meant for me is for me’. I think perspective is something that I guess just keeps coming back. I didn’t know it was going to end the album so it could have been the center of the it. It feels like a real 180. Maturing, seeing almost like my ghost on the other side and being like “Wow you’ve grown so much from an experience to be able to to see things from that perspective”. But I think also in terms of relationships, I needed to get to this place in order to find what I really needed. You have to be in the act of forgiveness and growing and learning and being okay with the past in order to move on with what’s to come next. So “Happy For You” is a beautiful happy song because it’s so reflective of my journey.

—via The Zane Lowe Show

“Happy For You” samples the tremolo of Kevin’s voice which I just absolutely love. And with like the sound of the birds, it just transports you into a completely different place. When we wrote that song, I knew that was going to be my album closer. It was the texture of it. It also felt like I just matured and seen myself grow as I was writing that song.

—via Zach Sang Show