Announcement
Country artist Simone Reyes and singer SHANI collaborated on the single (You're My) Happy Hour. The original announcement described the song as a woman-led take on a traditional drinking-song theme and said the performers recorded their parts from separate home studios during the pandemic. Producer Al Bonhomme brought the recordings together, and a companion video was shot in Santa Monica.
Reyes' official website continues to feature the Happy Hour video with SHANI. The single's streaming listing dates its release to July 2022; the NewswireJet archive carried the announcement in June 2023. Those dates describe different events and should not be conflated. The release credited Michael August and Jon D'Agostino as songwriters and framed the recording as a celebration of camaraderie after a hard day.
The statement's descriptions of the song as groundbreaking and its predictions about audience response were promotional opinions. Listeners can judge the music and video directly through the artist's current links. This page records the collaboration and release context without presenting the old launch window as an upcoming event.