I love 'I’ve Been Looking For You,' 'Please Stay,' and 'I Could Get Used To This,' and of course it’s too bad they aren’t in the musical, but that’s the way the Broadway ball bounces." But that doesn’t mean that the rejected songs haven’t found a home. The song "I've Been Looking For You" dates back to the writing sessions for Pretty Woman: The Musical, Adams explains: "Writing that musical was a masterclass in songwriting, it was also a masterclass in not losing your mind, as there was so much re-writing and rejection during the process of the production. This could be my favorite song on the album compositionally, at least today it is." However, when putting ideas together for this album I found a rough demo I'd made of the song and so I went at it again. He admitted the song "These Are The Moments That Make Up My Life" was originally intended for the 2008 film Marley & Me, starring Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston. Several of the songs pre-date the COVID-19 pandemic, Adams told Dutch newspaper Metro.
It was really fun to try and live my lifelong dream of being a drummer and then structuring each piece of the record one-by-one until it sounded like a song or it sounded like an album." And so what I was doing was recording all the instruments myself, one by one, and trying to create the feeling of a band - and in the meantime, perhaps this is one of the reasons the record is quite joyous. He detailed the process in an interview with the Rock Cellar Magazine: "The only thing that’s different on this record compared to previous albums is I couldn’t perform it with my band. The album of the same name touches on many of the ephemeral things in life that are really the secret to happiness and, most importantly, human connection." Īdams played the majority of the instruments while recording the album. The title song "So Happy It Hurts" is about freedom, autonomy, spontaneity and the thrill of the open road. "Suddenly all touring stopped, no one could jump in the car and go. Describing the album, he also said: “The pandemic and lockdown really brought home the truth that spontaneity can be taken away," he said in a press release. Adams confirmed that the album would be called So Happy It Hurts, describing the album as a "return to life" after the COVID-19 pandemic. The album is the singer's first to be released on the BMG Rights Management label after his previous album Shine a Light was released by Polydor Records and its parent label Universal Music Group.
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