Name: The Happy Birthday Song Sounds Like a Death Song - Between the Scenes | The Daily Show
Uploaded: 2020-03-15T01:40:18.000Z
Duration: 3 min 12 s
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It's funny because I never grew up singing

so my mom would either sing the Stevie Wonder

And then there was another one that my mom found,

It was Donald Duck's birthday, (audience laughs)

and I start going to kindergarten and all that,

and they turn down the lights and the candles.

And then she's like, "No, what are you doing?"

And then I was, "That's the birthday song."

And they're like, "No, Trevor, clearly you don't know it.

♪ Happy birthday to you ♪ (audience laughs)

And I was like, "This is the most depressing shit."

'Cause when you've sang the "Happy Birthday" song

And now, even today, when I see people sing,

if you told someone from another culture,

let's say they never experienced "Happy Birthday,"

you could think it was like a death song.

Like a song about you're one year closer to death.

Imagine if you didn't speak English at all,

and you'd never heard the song ever in your life,

Just think of the tone and the pitch of the song.

and then someone comes out with a candle,

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