On the one hand, it was a joyous, up-tempo pop record with hip-hop influences; on the other hand, it was a master class in intellectual property use (or misuse) — Greg Gillis, the mastermind behind the band, didn't exactly create songs so much as assemble them, magpie-like, from bits and pieces of more than a hundred and fifty other songs, many of them recognizable pop classics.
Running down the steep slope of sand to the sea is joyous: trekking up again has more of a Lawrence of Arabia epic feel.
He later insisted his joyous "get it up ye" celebration in the semi-finals was purely down to being "caught up with the emotions at the time" having just played "the best two bowls of my life".
They need to grow up joyous and passionate about learning, and that doesn't happen from giving them content.
"A bone-weary Katzenbach was talking with President Kennedy when joyous shouts went up that regular troops had been sighted" outside the administration building, Taylor Branch wrote in "Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63".
He acknowledges that it's "poor autobiographical form" to have enjoyed such a joyous childhood, growing up in a Bermondsey council flat (near where Kray rivals the Richardsons ran a torture chamber under the railway arches).
On the ESPY stage, the rapper had Macklemore's joyous Grammy moment up on the big screen as he sang: "Real talent doesn't always win championships, like real music doesn't always win Grammys".
How could my own child's play — something ordinarily so joyous to watch — stir up such discomfort?
It was a slow, joyous journey up Broadway, an outdoor party attended by hundreds of thousands of their closest friends.
Famed for the joyous musical pile-up Every Litle Thing She Does Is Magic, though its merits are much better displayed by Invisible Sun, the woozy single about the IRA hunger strikers that was banned by the BBC.
The first two are quartet albums: "I'm All for You," in 2004, was widely acclaimed, but the follow-up, "Joyous Encounter," in 2005, demonstrates a deeper symbiosis; its version of "Autumn in New York" has the spacious commitment of a weathered classic.
