There are songs that try to be summer anthems by sheer force of will with million-dollar productions and focus-grouped lyrics about sunshine and freedom and drinking canned cocktails on a yacht. And then there’s “Anuther Sunny Hulliday” by Mick J. Clark. It’s a song that somehow spells “Another Sunny Holiday” wrong on purpose and still ends up being more fun than half the tracks on whatever playlist Spotify is shoving at you right now.
Let’s get this out of the way: yes, it’s spelled wrong. Yes, there’s a dancing parrot. Yes, the dance is designed for children to do while sitting down. And you know what? That’s the genius of it. This isn’t a song trying to out-cool anyone. It’s a song that shows up to the party in a Hawaiian shirt with a kazoo and steals the show from your Bluetooth speaker with nothing but sheer enthusiasm and the emotional clarity of a five-year-old yelling “WE’RE GOING ON HOLIDAY!”
Musically, it’s as bright and bouncy as your childhood memories think holidays felt, before adult life taught you the phrase “overbooked flight.” It’s all sunshine, boats, ice cream, and delightfully unfiltered glee. There’s no cynicism here, no winking irony. Just pure, concentrated joy served up with the sincerity of someone who thinks maybe a dancing parrot might make the world a slightly better place.
Is this track cool? Not in the way we typically define it. There are no moody synths, no ironic detachment, no whispered vocals about heartbreak over a trap beat. And that’s exactly why it stands out. “Anuther Sunny Hulliday” doesn’t care about your carefully curated indie sad-boy playlist. It’s not trying to land on a TikTok trend or sneak its way onto a lo-fi summer compilation with a pastel cover and a pine-scented algorithm. It’s trying to do something much harder in today’s music landscape: it’s trying to be earnestly, unapologetically happy.
And let’s be honest, happiness is kind of punk rock now. In a cultural moment where every other track is about emotional devastation or aesthetic ennui, making a song about holidays, fun, dancing parrots, and joy without a single trace of cynicism is borderline subversive. The fact that “Anuther Sunny Hulliday” pulls that off without sounding like a multivitamin jingle or the background music to a children’s toothpaste commercial is, frankly, impressive. It’s bright. It’s catchy. It’s weird in all the right ways.
So if you’re tired of songs that mistake melancholy for depth, or swagger for substance, maybe give Mick J. Clark a listen. Worst-case scenario? You roll your eyes and move on. But best-case? You crack a smile, feel a little lighter, and maybe find yourself doing a chair dance alongside a cartoon parrot. And honestly? In this economy, that might be exactly the kind of strange, wholesome joy we all need.
In short: it slaps. Mick J. Clark’s “Anuther Sunny Hulliday” silly, sunny, seat-dancingly slaps.
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A tenured media critic known working as a ghost writer, freelance critic for publications in the US and former lead writer of Atop The Treehouse. Reviews music, film and TV shows for media aggregators.
