Swedish Eurovision 2015 winner Måns Zelmerlöw returns with his latest single Happyland and its official music video.

Contrary to the title, Happyland by Måns Zelmerlöw has a far from happy topic: it highlights all the ways humans try to avoid their real emotions, creating artificial pleasures that couldn’t be farther removed from true happiness. Only ego rules happyland, and it’s a lonely kingdom…

On a personal level, it is also a song about lost love and the way people choose to numb the heartache, getting stuck in resentment instead of searching for reconciliation, which is right in front of them.

In line with the song, the accompanying music video portrayes desolation and isolation. Yet Happyland has a happy end.

Happyland is one of Måns Zelmerlöw’s personal favourites, taken from his successful album Chameleon. The song was written by Joy Deb and Linnea Deb, Anton Hård af Segerstad and Ola Svensson, and was produced by The Family (Deb, Deb & Hård af Segerstad).

Måns Zelmerlöw presented Happyland in the Swedish show Nyhetsmorgon, where he also talked about his upcoming fatherhood, as he and his fiancé Ciara Janson are expecting their first child together, a baby boy:

Happyland is available at Spotify

Enjoy the official music video for Happyland, directed by Robin Olofsson, produced by Kalle Österby and director of photography was Fredric Johansson. Featuring Måns Zelmerlöw roaming a stark post-apocalyptic landscape, Swedish actress and model Nicole Willenheimer also has a role in Happyland.

About Måns Zelmerlöw 

Måns Zelmerlöw (Lund, Sweden, 1986) is a Swedish singer and TV-presenter. He won the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 in Vienna, Austria, with the song Heroes, earning a total of 365 points in the Grand Final.

In 2016 he hosted the Eurovision Song Contest in Stockholm, Sweden, together with Petra Mede.

He recently also successfully presented the United Kingdom’s selection for Eurovision 2018, Eurovision: You Decide, alongside Mel Giedroyc.

Måns Zelmerlöw currently resides in London, the United Kingdom, with his fiancé, actress Ciara Janson, daughter of British actors David Janson and Debbie Arnold. The couple are expecting their first child together.

Watch Måns Zelmerlöw performing his winning song Heroes during the Grand Final of Eurovision 2015 once again: