Radiant, raucous, and hopelessly romantic, The Happy Fits’ euphoric indie rock anthem “Everything You Do” reintroduces the beloved band with cinematic verve, unfiltered passion, and a jolt of pure serotonin as they reckon with love’s (literal and metaphorical) affordability – all in the lead-up to their highly anticipated fourth studio album, ‘Lovesick’!
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Stream: “Everything You Do” – The Happy Fits
There’s a shared feeling amongst the hoi polloi of being overworked, underpaid, and underloved… we simply cannot afford to love. ‘Everything You Do’ is my own internal battle of fighting for my heart vs. being practical and rational. Knowing me, the heart always finds a way to win.
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The Happy Fits’ “Everything You Do” feels like a jolt of joy straight to the heart – like the sonic equivalent of a confetti cannon exploding midair.
It’s a radiant, rambunctious rush of feel-good fervor that hits hard, fast, and leaves you grinning like an idiot. It’s loud, it’s lively, it’s unabashedly huge – the kind of cinematic indie rock anthem that fills every inch of a room, lifts the spirit, and reminds you what it feels like to be fully, truly alive.
This is a band I’ve personally known from their heyday – when Atwood Magazine featured The Happy Fits’ debut EP Awfully Apeelin’ back in 2016, we wrote, “Calvin Langman and Ross Monteith are as surprised as anyone else is by the success of their band The Happy Fits’ debut EP, but in retrospect, perhaps they shouldn’t be…” Nine years, multiple albums, and countless tour stops later – including Lollapalooza and other festival stages around the world – The Happy Fits are still delivering that same spark I first heard in their breakout single “While You Fade Away,” but with even more firepower, polish, and passion.
Their fourth album Lovesick is out September 19th, and “Everything You Do” is its first exuberant, heart-on-sleeve taste.
One more night of overtime
Keep me up in this box
with knuckles white
Well I’ve got bills to pay,
and I’ve got mouths to feed
I’m so moody, moody, moody
(Moody, moody, moody)
Then you caught me by surprise
with this helpless feeling
Everybody wants to love you
You’re the apple of my eye,
what I’m always eating
Everybody wants to love you
Oh, everybody wants to love you
(Everybody wants you)
But I cannot afford to love
“Everything You Do” feels like the musical manifestation of that electric, butterflies-in-your-stomach kind of love – the kind that hits like a freight train and leaves you breathless, giddy, and alive. From the first note, it bursts forward with radiant energy: Pulsing drums, soaring strings, and frontman Calvin Langman’s signature cello lines exploding into technicolor euphoria. It’s pure serotonin – the kind of track that demands to be blasted with the windows down, arms outstretched, heart wide open. And beneath that jubilance lies a thread of yearning and vulnerability, grounding the track in something real and relatable.
For all its bombast and brilliance, “Everything You Do” is still a love song at its core – one bursting at the seams with emotion, longing, and vulnerability.
Langman’s lyrics toe the line between joy and desperation, capturing the spiraling rush of falling head-over-heels for someone you feel you can’t have: “I can’t get my mind off loving you / ‘Cause I’m in love with everything you do / So help me please from falling faster / There’s no stopping this disaster.” It’s giddy, breathless, and a little bit unhinged – a heartsick anthem set to a euphoric soundtrack. That tension between exuberance and emotional chaos is exactly what makes it hit so hard.
I can’t get my mind off loving you
Cause I’m in love with everything you do
So help me please from falling faster
There’s no stopping this disaster
Save me, won’t you say you love me too?
For Langman, this musical reckoning with love and life is especially personal.
“‘Everything You Do’ is a song I found myself writing just as I had moved to Brooklyn and started falling for my girlfriend Kayla, who unfortunately lived in Colorado,” he tells Atwood Magazine over email. “I was already trying my hardest to make it work in the most expensive city in the world, and now I was trying to be in a long-distance relationship. Even though I was tired, stressed, and over-worked, I somehow always found myself making time to see her and be with her.”
“I read somewhere that the amount of married US adults dropped from 67% in 1990 to 53% today,” he continues. “At the same time, over 50% of millennials are taking on multiple jobs and ‘polyworking.’ I’m no data scientist, but why is it so damn expensive to be in a relationship these days? Maybe it’s just my social circles and algorithm, but there’s a shared feeling amongst the hoi polloi of being overworked, underpaid, and underloved. It’s not that we don’t want to be in relationships, it’s just that we simply cannot afford to love. So ‘Everything You Do’ is my own internal battle of fighting for my heart vs. being practical and rational. In the eternal battle between being practical and being a hopeless romantic, my heart always finds a way of winning.”
“This song is also the first Happy Fits song that I put my own producer stamp and credit on, alongside my mentor, producer, and manager Ayad Al Adhamy,” he adds. “The whole time I was making it, I just wanted to make the listener dance and scream. It’s how I felt while I was falling madly in love back when Kayla and I first started seeing each other, and I wanted nothing more than for that boundless, naïve passion to be captured forever in the recording.”
I say, you say, “What’s the deal?
It’s a very short life with no appeal”
Well I’ve got time to kill
and I’ve got pills to take
I’m so moody, moody, moody
(Moody, moody, moody)
Then you caught me by surprise
with this helpless feeling
Everybody wants to love you
You’re the apple of my eye,
what I’m always eating
Everybody wants to love you
Oh, everybody wants to love you
(Everybody wants you)
But I cannot afford to love
Lovesick is set to arrive three long and transformative years after The Happy Fits’ acclaimed third LP Under the Shade of Green, which Atwood Magazine praised as “a passionate, boisterous, and spirited rock record that finds a light in the darkness and keeps finding reasons to soar.” While “Everything You Do” very much fits a similar description, it does so with refreshing tenacity and poise – the result of some internal changes that have resulted in what Langman is calling “The Happy Fits 2.0.”
Indeed, 2025 marks the start of an exciting new era for them: Following the amicable, bittersweet departure of founding member and guitarist Ross Monteith, the band welcomed guitarists/vocalists Nico Rose and Raina Mullen, who have joined Langman and drummer Luke Davis both onstage and on the new record as full-time members. They bring with them the sonic equivalent of shiny new shoes – a deep drive to make a second “debut” album that puts the band on the map all over again.
And “Everything You Do” is their big, bold mission statement – a musical best foot forward, complete with their first performance-based music video.
“For the grand premiere of the bigger, better The Happy Fits 2.0, we knew we had to show what we do best: Perform!” the ever-ambitious Langman grins.
“The video was shot in the basement of the punk-world-famous First Unitarian Church in Philadelphia, along with a skeleton crew of guys who knew how to squeeze every ounce of vibe out of that space and into the video.”
“Ironically, we were kicked out two hours earlier than we expected due to an Agnostic group who had rented the space after us, claiming they rented it earlier than it said on the call sheet. They seemed pretty sure about this for a group of people who aren’t sure about a lot. Nonetheless, over 11 hours of shooting, we got the dozens of takes needed for our first performance-based music video ever, and the first look into the future of The Happy Fits.”
I can’t get my mind off loving you
Cause I’m in love with everything you do
So help me please from falling faster
There’s no stopping this disaster
Save me, won’t you say you love me too?
There’s a certain magic to The Happy Fits’ musical alchemy – the way they blend catharsis with joy, unfiltered emotion with electrifying hooks.
“Everything You Do” is a perfect example of this chemistry in action: A song that wears its heart on its sleeve while compelling you to dance, shout, and sing your lungs out. It’s a testament to their evolution and their unrelenting sense of fun – the kind that’s built not just from talent, but from trust, chemistry, and years of growth.
The Happy Fits have always been the kind of band that makes you feel better just by pressing play. And now, nearly a decade in, they’re not just still doing that – they’re doing it bigger, louder, and more beautifully than ever before. “Everything You Do” isn’t just a comeback – it’s a celebration.
True to their name, The Happy Fits are the happiest band in the world – and “Everything You Do” reaffirms that truth with a bright, bold burst of seductive, smile-inducing energy. As infectious as it is intoxicating, this song – and really, everything they do (wink, wink) – is sure to leave listeners grinning from ear to ear.
You drive me crazy all the time
You spin in circles ’round my mind
And if the stars would all align
Then would you love me?
Would you be mine?
I can’t get my mind off loving you
Cause I’m in love with everything you do
So help me please from falling faster
There’s no stopping this disaster
Save me, won’t you say you love me too?
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