Why do so many songs rise in pitch around 2/3 of the way through the song, then go back down?

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There seems to be this trend in lots of modern music, across genres, where the song will be coming around for a repeat of the chorus and then it ticks up in pitch for that section, then drops back down for the ending of the song.

What is the purpose of this? What is it called? Is it supposed to produce some kind of mood? My level of music understanding is “major = happy, minor = sad” and that’s about as far as I go. Please go on the music theory.

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I call it the happy key change, it seems to lift the spirits of the listener, almost like a minor to major key, it works the same way

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