On this Vanuatuan Island women with wide smiling faces proudly placed colourful flowers behind our ears as we walked up the beach to the sounds of the gentle and cheerful singing voices of the locals.
Since 1992, the friendly purple dinosaur has been relentless in his cheerful singing and dancing, and his marketing hypnotising pre-school girls and boys, while emptying the wallets of mummies and daddies.
The cheerful singing of this song by roomfuls of boys and men has repeatedly failed to make national news or elicit public outrage.
(Sisario) THE KILLS (Thursday) Following in a long tradition of arch blues-punks, this American-British, male-female duo surrounds sexy, corrosive riffs with no shortage of sneers and pouts, romanticizing the eternal pursuit of trashy chic: "I'm bored of cheap and cheerful," sings Alison Mosshart, a k a V V, "I want expensive sadness".
There he was caught, on camera, joining in a cheerful sing-along of "The Red Flag".
There he was caught, on camera, joining in a cheerful sing-along of "The Red Flag". He also hugged a hulk: Len McCluskey, the general secretary of Unite, which is the largest trade union in the country, and which had backed him in his quest for the leadership.
The chorus wedded oddly cheerful, sing-along-friendly chords with dark, blunt lyrics, cranking up the tension between music as a vehicle for pleasure and music as a container for crushing emotion: People get cancer and die People get hit by trucks and die People get erased for no reason.
Anyone who's studied the original lyric about the confessions of a dying man and compared them with the tirelessly cheerful, sing-songy Anglophone version will know it's less a translation than it is an abomination ("I want them to dance when it's time to put me in the hole" becomes "We'll have joy, we'll have fun, we'll have seasons in the sun").
David Simms at the Atlantic likened it to a "cheerful sing-a-long of a movie," and The Hollywood Reporter's Todd McCarthy called it a "breezy, unpretentious, just-for-fun film".
The building was full — though not completely full — of cheerful teenagers, singing along to every funereal word.
He had to deal with personal tragedy, including the deaths of all three of his wives and all three children, yet he had a cheerful demeanor, singing while he worked, and was described as a "dear old man" and a "quiet, homely hospitable fellow" by Alfred Powell, an Arts and Crafts movement designer who visited his workshop in 1903.
