In 2010, American folk-rock singer Lissie, began covering the song live in concert. In early 2010, Australian alternative rock band Cloud Control, covered "Pursuit of Happiness", on multiple occasions throughout their concert tours, which received high praise. In February 2010, Los Angeles-based electro-pop folk trio Barbara, released a cover version of the song.
The second music video released, directed by Megaforce, shows Kid Cudi waking up and interacting with a swiveling couch, and a party scene. Other cameo appearances include Cudi's then GOOD Music label-mate Consequence, actor Jake Hoffman along with fellow rappers Johnny Polygon and Drake. Ratatat does not appear in the video, however MGMT member Ben Goldwasser does make an appearance. While everyone is having a good time, the whole party goes into a slow-motion state. The first music video released, directed by Brody Baker and produced by Josh Hartnett, displays Kid Cudi at a party. In 2012, it has also charted for the first time in Austria, Belgium (Wallonia), France, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden and Switzerland. The song originally peaked at number 137 on the UK Singles Chart, but it re-entered the chart in 2012 attaining a new peak of 72 and entered for the first time on the Irish Singles Chart, peaking at 24. As of March 2013, it sold over 2,000,000 downloads since its release. The song re-entered at number 95 on the week ending January 8, 2011. The following week, it fell 41 spots to number 100. "Pursuit of Happiness" debuted and peaked on the Billboard Hot 100 at number 59 on the week ending October 3, 2009. Reception Įmma Silvers of SF Weekly, called the song a "self-aware 2009 party anthem - or chronicle of a person's thinking as they veer into a drunk and drugged out downward spiral, depending on how you spin it - is a pretty lonely song to begin with." Chart performance In 2021, Cudi reworked the song into an acoustic rendition for Amazon’s Prime Day Show, released in June of that year.
PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS KID CUDI MOVIE
Also in May 2012, Kid Cudi received a nomination for Best Song from a Movie at the MTV Movie Awards, for the Steve Aoki remix to "Pursuit of Happiness", being used in Project X. On May 1, 2012, an "Extended Steve Aoki Remix" was released via digital distribution, such as iTunes and. In 2012, the remix was featured on the trailers for the comedy film Project X and was later included on the film's soundtrack. Steve Aoki released his remix on December 5, 2009. Upon the song's release, American electro house DJ Steve Aoki, produced a remix of "Pursuit of Happiness", which went on to become as popular as the original and became a staple at Aoki's concerts. Cudi later performed the song on September 23, 2009, on Jimmy Kimmel Live.
The song made its US television debut on the Late Show with David Letterman on September 11, 2009. The final version of the song was premiered on September 4, 2009, on the DJ Semtex BBC Radio 1 show. But "Pursuit of Happiness" does showcase his single discernible musical talent: a talent for crafting maddeningly catchy little sing-song hooks, and an ear for the sort of slick, digestible hash that makes for great mall pop- "Day 'N' Nite" is pretty insipid, but it sounds pretty goddamn great in a clothing store, and this one will, too.On the album, the track is titled " Pursuit of Happiness (Nightmare)", following the album's dream sequence. The track clunks along on rickety drum programming and effects-heavy pianos and guitar noises, sounding less like a bandwagon-jumping blogger-rapper's "indie crossover" attempt than a weird, out-of-time throwback to the sort of one-hit wonders that characterized 1998 modern-rock radio (Kid Cudi's singing voice, for instance, reminds me vaguely of Marcy Playground). There is plenty of such poetry on display here ("sorrow/tomorrow" rhyme schemes abound) as well as Cudi's flat, toneless singing. Ratatat produced the track, an interesting left-field choice on paper, and MGMT sings the chorus. Over what, we don't know whatever is gnawing away at Cudi, he doesn't tell us much about it, and that points to a problem he maybe should be worried about: while his soul may be eloquent, his pen is decidedly lumpen, seemingly capable of producing only fifth-grader poetry. On "Day 'N' Nite", he was tossing and turning now he wakes up screaming. "Tell me what you know about night terrors/ Nothin!" he sings on "Pursuit of Happiness". You may not have picked up on this, despite him signalling it desperately from thousands of yards away, but Kid Cudi is a sensitive soul, wrestling with the sorts of inner torments that you or I could only imagine.