Happy Hero is a single by the experimental band Negativland

Negativland

Negativland is an experimental music and sound collage band which originated in the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 1970s. They took their name from a Neu! song, while their record label is named after another Neu! song...

, appearing on their 1997 album, Dispepsi

Dispepsi

Dispepsi is an album by the band Negativland. It was released on July 29, 1997 by Seeland Records, Negativland's record label. It is structured to be a statement against the major soft drink companies and contains many samples of advertisements therefrom....

. The song talks about how a man would get publicity by putting himself in danger so he would promote Pepsi on the stage. The song is sung to a crowd of people, who start booing at him at how he would do such things, like rape with teenage boys and get into a gang fight so he can get into a wheelchair and sing songs to dying children. The song criticizes Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson

Michael Joseph Jackson was an American recording artist, entertainer, and businessman. Referred to as the King of Pop, or by his initials MJ, Jackson is recognized as the most successful entertainer of all time by Guinness World Records...

's Pepsi promotion, even though he was accused of raping a 14-year-old boy ten years later. It's also a foreshadow on "The Greatest Taste Around

The Greatest Taste Around

The Greatest Taste Around is the second and last single by Negativland from the 1997 popular release Dispepsi. It is a satire on Pepsi's promotion campaigns for Crystal Pepsi and Coca-Cola's failed campaign for New Coke, using such lyrics as "I nailed Jesus to the cross" and "Children dying of...

" as it talks about "dying children", with the lyric in "The Greatest..." saying "children dying of disease/Pepsi".