You know that friend who disappears the second they get a boyfriend? The one who suddenly can’t grab coffee because he’s around and dinner becomes this awkward throuple situation where you’re the unwanted third wheel? Yeah, that friend. Well, 21-year-old Vini just wrote their eulogy, and it’s a certified bop.
“I’m Happy for You,” is the kind of song that makes you want to text your ex-best friend at 2 AM and also block them forever. The Brazilian-Argentinian singer-songwriter turns personal betrayal into the kind of conversational pop that feels like reading someone’s diary while they’re in the room.
“I just hate your boyfriend, I just want him dead,” Vini admits in the chorus, delivering the line with the casual brutality of someone who’s rehearsed this conversation in their head approximately 500 times. It’s the kind of honesty that makes you stop mid-scroll on TikTok and think, Oh, he really said that.
“I’m Happy for You” captures all those conflicting emotions—the bittersweet feeling of genuinely wanting the best for someone while quietly battling jealousy, insecurity, and that gnawing sense of being left behind. It’s pop rock at its most emotionally honest, dressed up in bold hooks and early-2000s attitude.
Vini
Born in San Antonio da Platina, Brazil, and raised in Tunuyán, Mendoza, Argentina, Vini’s emotional journey began early—first fueled by his Disney Channel obsession with Miley Cyrus, Selena Gomez, and Demi Lovato (taste), then through six years of musical theater training, and finally through teen experiences of depression, eating disorders, and general existential chaos. But instead of therapy, he chose pop music, which honestly tracks.
The song works because it taps into something universal about modern friendship dynamics—the way romantic relationships are prioritized over platonic ones, the lack of social scripts for grieving friendship breakups, the particular hell of being asked to just get along with your replacement. It’s millennial trauma set to a beat you can cry-dance to in your bedroom.
The visual treatment continues this aesthetic of beautiful destruction, while throwing it back to the glam and drama of 2000s pop videos. Co-directed with Melisa Jimenez and featuring a cast that includes Augusto Sosa and Margo Amaro, the project maintains the song’s conversational intimacy while elevating it into something visually striking.
What sets Vini apart from the endless stream of bedroom pop boys with guitars is his unapologetic worship of female pop excellence. “I honestly admire women’s artistry more than men’s in pop today,” he admits, citing Lady Gaga, Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, and Tate McRae as his blueprint for total artistic domination. He wants to build worlds, craft eras, and serve the kind of transformative pop artistry that makes you question everything you thought you knew about entertainment.
This is just the beginning for Vini, whose debut album promises 15 tracks of similar emotional excavation. If “I’m Happy for You” is any indication, we’re in for a collection that refuses to sanitize the messy realities of young adulthood.
