Vampire Weekend are one those great indie-alternative bands that rarely get the attention they deserve and they have a unique sound that is pretty much instantly recognisable. This is one of those songs and “tout de suite” a song that if you are a grown up, one you will love. Being a grown up, I love this song with just a single listen with the organic sound of real instruments we lack so much in modern mainstream charts and in some respects a feeling given by Paul Simon in the 70s.
Sp0oky It's funny that you say that because I ate too many edibles yesterday so I'm coming down from a really really aggressive, long high. I had a panic attack because of it so my mom gave me a Xanax. So I am doing both. It's not much different tbh.
Holy moly, this is my favourite track released so far. Love everything about it. Am getting strong 60s-50s era surf/beach vibe but without the usual throwaway surf guitar reverb tones. Really fresh and amazing pop song structure.
I wake up every morning in a bed that's too small, drive my daughter to a school that's too expensive, and then I go to work to a job for which I get paid too little. But on new VW day? Well, I like new VW day.
I never sing along to songs and am super self conscious about my singing even when I’m alone but I try to sing ever single part of this song it makes me so happy. It’s cheered me up too many times to count.
Has anyone seen how they’re playing these live? I just watched ‘2021’ and ‘big blue’ live in London and they turn a 1:30 opening album song like 2021 into an absolute divine 8 minute jam out session. And same with big blue for like 6 minutes. Also, they have reworked a few older songs like giving up the gun and some added guitar on kids don’t stand. I think they’re taking full advantage of the mesmerizing Brian Robert Jones’ guitar playing and just jamming out like proper jam bands haha. I have a feeling these songs will sound nothing like the recorded versions by the time this tour is over. So excited to see them live in Philly in Sept. I grew up in New York and was living in the city still when they first hit the scene. I can still remember hearing Oxford Comma for the first time ever when my girlfriend at the time said I gotta check these guys out. It was such a fresh and clean new sound that I needed in my life at that point and I was happy to have them as my little secret for about a month before the blogs got ahold of them and the secret was no more. But really, it was inevitable. I’ll link the live version songs here. I can’t say for sure yet if this album is gonna be a masterpiece but I do know the live versions will be epic. 👍🏻 ruclips.net/video/l2zeCwXmyvo/видео.html ruclips.net/video/4T62P7pBEEs/видео.html
The structure & wordplay of Ezra's lyrics gets more sophisticated on every VW album, but he never sacrifices clarity of feeling for cleverness. He was an English Lit major & so was I and I really appreciate the way he uses language, it's certainly not a requirement to make decent pop music but it adds so much
How is this a coincidence! I was studying Microbiology for my exam and was getting really bored with all those names and comes to a point where I decided to give up then this uploads... now i gotta start studying coz of all this little guys .. thanks for making my life good vampire weekend n_n
This Tune will always remind me of my Mam, as she died @ the same time as it came out brilliant track & the sentiment and lyrics are so fitting. As well as poiniant. I miss you, Mam AML, Nick xxx
Hapito The dame thing happened to me with Logic (my favorite rapper)’s Bobby Tarantino 2, which was what I also got front row concert tickets to for as my birthday present.
I listened to Vampire Weekend the first time last weekend. I'd avoided it because I mistakenly thought it sounded like an emo goth depresio band. Yeah... turns out I was missing some amazing music. So glad I found this band!!!
Sounds like them, right? But mushrooms are really a disgusting thing! Also, do you think it's okay to cheat on ur partner? That would be a horrible basis for a relationship...
@@SkywalkerSam64 do you think the song is saying that cheating is a good basis for a relationship? "Baby I know dreams tends to crumble at extremes, I just thought our dream would last a little longer". Sounds like an ENDED relationship to me, not the basis for an ongoing one lol
My people have not been sustained by the voices they hear in their heads giving them commands to rigorously follow. So I listen to vampire weekend. Blessed are you, Lord of the Universe, whose commandments sustain us. Blessed are you Baphomet, ruler of the world.
I was in the car, and I heard this on our local alternative station and I swear I jumped out of my seat 😂 This song is absolute perfection. That bassline tho 👌🏽
I got to see Bob Dylan and Paul Simon perform in the Dallas Amphitheater in 1999. I was seventeen, but I bought tickets for my parents and my kid sister Ms. Mary Sutton, and we all had a blast.
I just saw this awful video where this guy washed his hands and, like, intentionally soaked the cuffs of his hoodie's sleeves with water and this is exactly the kind of thing I needed to cheer me up.
Jonathan Elliott Could you do me a favour? Please sail to the edge,have a peer over and tell me what you see underneath,then communicate back. Ta very.
Evangelionlovr correct. The brilliance of this song comes from the bright uplifting pop feel with the contrast of life and suffering in its lyrics and cheating on the virtues of life to escape from suffering, in whatever form that may be.
*Lyrics:* Baby, I know pain is as natural as the rain I just thought it didn't rain in California Baby, I know love isn't what I thought it was Cause I've never known a love like this before ya Baby, I know dreams tend to crumble at extremes I just thought our dream would last a little bit longer There's a time when every man draws a line down in the sand We're surviving, we're still living, all stronger You've been cheating on, cheating on me I've been cheating on, cheating on you You've bean cheating on me But I've been cheating through this life, and all its suffering Oh Christ! Am I good for nothing Baby, I know hate is always waiting at the gate I just thought we locked the gate when we left in the morning And I was told that war is how we landed on these shores I just thought the drums would all be loud warnings You've been cheating on, cheating on me I've been cheating on, cheating on you You've bean cheating on me But I've been cheating through this life, and all its suffering Oh Christ! Am I good for nothing Baby, I know death probably hasn't happened yet Cause I don't remember living life before this Darling, our disease is the same one as the trees Unaware that they've been living in a forest You've been cheating on cheating on me I've been cheating on cheating on you You've bean cheating on me But I've been cheating through this life and all its suffering Oh Christ! Am I good for nothing This life, and all its suffering 🤙🤙🤙
Best song in the album! Also my favorite!
All those saying this song didn't get any exposure are under a rock. This song got massive promotion
This album has some big summer energy
Actually Spring
No, summer! You jerk!
@@sHART1780 it's spring. VW self titled is summer
Big dick energy
@@Skat9 if we are being honest the self titled, this and Contra all sound like summer.
My girlfriend had an emergency ciserian and the doctor played this song whilst my daughter was being born this song will be in my whole life now ❤️👍
Vampire Weekend are one those great indie-alternative bands that rarely get the attention they deserve and they have a unique sound that is pretty much instantly recognisable. This is one of those songs and “tout de suite” a song that if you are a grown up, one you will love. Being a grown up, I love this song with just a single listen with the organic sound of real instruments we lack so much in modern mainstream charts and in some respects a feeling given by Paul Simon in the 70s.
well said!
Listening to Vampire Weekend is like my alternative for taking drugs
Why not do both
Sp0oky
It's funny that you say that because I ate too many edibles yesterday so I'm coming down from a really really aggressive, long high. I had a panic attack because of it so my mom gave me a Xanax. So I am doing both. It's not much different tbh.
Spot on
Creative Username geez Godspeed
Love it, sounds like summer ☀️
Right! Can’t wait to listen to it in the garden while having a bbq
@@worrywirt going to do that tomorrow!
Really !!!! you're rite
You have GOTTEN IT JUST RIGHT !!!!!!!!!!!!
Director: what’s the inspiration for this album?
VW: We’ve been watching a lot of Planet Earth here lately.
Director: say no more
they want to refresh our biology class memory lol
And SONY MUSIC
more like fido commercials
“Notch Notch Wink Wink”
Exactly!
This album fills me with so much joy and appreciation. I feel the thrill I remember back from when I heard their debut.
2019 was so long ago but yet feels like yesterday
This gives me 80s 90s vibes, not 2019 vibes, and i love it!
Can't get enough of this song!!
Can't understand why it's not a Big Hit?? (So Catchy)
TOTALLY AGREE!!!
@@johnletendre3292 You totally agree with yourself? Ngl, wasn't expecting that...
@@johnletendre3292 😂😂
Welcome back, VW... One of the best songs of their catalogue. Bring on the happy notes and sad lyrics!
I love that vw is becoming even more dad rock each day.
They have always been dad rock- I know this bc they and the Killers are the only two “current” bands my dad actually likes 😂 (Peter Gabriel, too)
empty sky seems so unusual
empty sky i understand that reference
@@Reese- unnatural :(
Dara Otl omg im a fake fan
Vampire Weekend is the best band existing in the world as of 2019
Holy moly, this is my favourite track released so far. Love everything about it. Am getting strong 60s-50s era surf/beach vibe but without the usual throwaway surf guitar reverb tones. Really fresh and amazing pop song structure.
New VW day is always a good day, possibly better than pretzel day.
I wake up every morning in a bed that's too small, drive my daughter to a school that's too expensive, and then I go to work to a job for which I get paid too little. But on new VW day? Well, I like new VW day.
@@NaeFace0 You get me
10:00am: Cosby impression
12:00pm: Stood in pretzel line
1:00pm-5:00pm: Listened to new VW
Jacob Jones pretzel day comes once a year, vampire weekend comes when it decides to
364 more days left until pretzel day
I never sing along to songs and am super self conscious about my singing even when I’m alone but I try to sing ever single part of this song it makes me so happy. It’s cheered me up too many times to count.
I love to hear this. I cannot help but sing when I listen to this (except when most other people are around 😂) Keep singing
Keep singing, you might get better, just with time using your voice. It happened to me 😊
Danielle Haim sings the background vocals. Awesome!
Jorge Trejo I THOUGHT IT SOUNDED LIKE HER
The Mitochondria is the PowerHOuse of the cell
I don't want to be a dick, but mitochondria ARE stuff, it's the mitochondrion that IS.
Mitch o McCondria is in the senate not the powerHouse
N Thurman I thought it was apart of congress🤔
9gag.....just gonna leave like that
N Thurman well the mitochondria ain’t My president 😡
Vampire Weekend is exactly what we need today. Thank you *so much* for continuing to make amazing music.
I love the chill vibe of the song. Reminds of summer in the east coast.
One of the great reasons to be alive: Vampire Weekend
Yes it is a reason to keep going what a time to be alive during the era of vampire weekend
@@roberthardy5171 thanks Vampire Weekend for the great music
Vampires don’t die!
Sounds retro and recent at once. Heard it on XM radio, been a long time since I've heard something new that was this damn good
VW making warm weather BANGERS. Bless you all.
I love how this song immediately gets me in the dancing mood. Can't wait to shake my hips to this all summer !
Can't wait to cheat on my wife while she cheats on me
3:26 don’t mind me just marking the part that hits my heart like a brick every time
I love these guys. This is the kind of music that keeps me alive. Because I'm old.
I love this song instantly.
Has anyone seen how they’re playing these live? I just watched ‘2021’ and ‘big blue’ live in London and they turn a 1:30 opening album song like 2021 into an absolute divine 8 minute jam out session. And same with big blue for like 6 minutes. Also, they have reworked a few older songs like giving up the gun and some added guitar on kids don’t stand. I think they’re taking full advantage of the mesmerizing Brian Robert Jones’ guitar playing and just jamming out like proper jam bands haha. I have a feeling these songs will sound nothing like the recorded versions by the time this tour is over. So excited to see them live in Philly in Sept. I grew up in New York and was living in the city still when they first hit the scene. I can still remember hearing Oxford Comma for the first time ever when my girlfriend at the time said I gotta check these guys out. It was such a fresh and clean new sound that I needed in my life at that point and I was happy to have them as my little secret for about a month before the blogs got ahold of them and the secret was no more. But really, it was inevitable. I’ll link the live version songs here. I can’t say for sure yet if this album is gonna be a masterpiece but I do know the live versions will be epic. 👍🏻
ruclips.net/video/l2zeCwXmyvo/видео.html
ruclips.net/video/4T62P7pBEEs/видео.html
The structure & wordplay of Ezra's lyrics gets more sophisticated on every VW album, but he never sacrifices clarity of feeling for cleverness. He was an English Lit major & so was I and I really appreciate the way he uses language, it's certainly not a requirement to make decent pop music but it adds so much
So so so good! Just the perfect spring/summer song!
How is this a coincidence! I was studying Microbiology for my exam and was getting really bored with all those names and comes to a point where I decided to give up then this uploads... now i gotta start studying coz of all this little guys .. thanks for making my life good vampire weekend n_n
Vampire weekend enhances science and education sucessfully again!
Good luck!!! 🍀
This is an absolute bop.
I don't usually wake up waiting to live but damn!!!! Today is a different and beautiful day to live
Live your best life ! 👍🌻
Miguel Zamora you’re awesome brother and you can do anything you put your mind to!
You're the best guys :)
This Tune will always remind me of my Mam, as she died @ the same time as it came out brilliant track & the sentiment and lyrics are so fitting. As well as poiniant. I miss you, Mam
AML, Nick xxx
*First note plays*
Holy shit it’s cape cod again
Jack LaLonde hahaha right
The first 2 notes are the same as A-Punk.
My thoughts exactly😂
Or alternatively, Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now.
stitch2k1 fr, it gave me whiplash
Beautiful harmony !!! (from Japan)
Has been my favorite band since I was 14. 🎸
Like summer song ☀️ so beautiful ☘️☘️
Oh that beat!
Cant stop dancing!
Thank you VW
OMG this song is so bad ass!! So retro sounding.
Summer vibes! 😋
This 2 song drop has been the best so far 😍 love this
Thanks for the happy sad
never thought a video like this could fit on a song like this. Its soooo different.
Such a great summer song!!!
Sounds like these guys now have a superb producer! This song is such an ear worm!!!!!!!!! Can't stop playing it !
I'm not crying, you are !
I've missed them so much.
Are you still crying ?
Since I discovered this song, i listen to it every day! It's so underrated
VAMPIRE WEEKEND GAVE ME A BIRTHDAY PRESENT
🎁🎉🎂
Hapito The dame thing happened to me with Logic (my favorite rapper)’s Bobby Tarantino 2, which was what I also got front row concert tickets to for as my birthday present.
I just become so happy the second I hear the first note!!!
The best part is .5 seconds in you can unquestionably tell it's a vampire weekend song
When you hear California right?
Best song of the year. Period.
3:48 onwards reminds me of Crimson and Clover, very 70’s
Sophie B. Hawkins - As I Lay Me Down
I listened to Vampire Weekend the first time last weekend. I'd avoided it because I mistakenly thought it sounded like an emo goth depresio band.
Yeah... turns out I was missing some amazing music. So glad I found this band!!!
yeahhhhh, this is Vampire Weekend 😍
Sounds like them, right? But mushrooms are really a disgusting thing!
Also, do you think it's okay to cheat on ur partner? That would be a horrible basis for a relationship...
@@SkywalkerSam64 do you think the song is saying that cheating is a good basis for a relationship? "Baby I know dreams tends to crumble at extremes, I just thought our dream would last a little longer". Sounds like an ENDED relationship to me, not the basis for an ongoing one lol
@@roberthardy5171Thanks for clarifying!
My people have not been sustained by the voices they hear in their heads giving them commands to rigorously follow. So I listen to vampire weekend. Blessed are you, Lord of the Universe, whose commandments sustain us. Blessed are you Baphomet, ruler of the world.
Each released single kills a bit of me for extreme hype.
Based on an interview Ezra did, I think they are dropping every song on the album like this until they are all out.
@@priceisalr1ght Well ain't that nice, I guess I'll die then *shrugs*
Chance P The album comes out May, at most we will get two more singles because they are releasing two a month.
@@priceisalr1ght no they aren't. This is the last monthly 2 song drop. Next month the full album is released.
Nah this is the last song drop the album drops on May 3rd
the beat is so happy and upbeat
I first heard this song in my car with my then boyfriend. I thought it was so funny and catchy, turns out he was cheating on me lol
nicesquee YOU ARE A BAD BITCH FUCK HIM.
Murphys law maybe innit? 🤔
nicesquee destiny
this made me laugh so damn hard
Sorry to hear that bud...
Amazing ❤
Amazing! Just like all the other new stuff. Can't wait for FOTB!!!
Can’t wait to play this song everyday once summer starts 💕💕
Had such a good boogie now in my office :D
PURE LOVE FOR THESE GUYS!!!
Holy cats, another reason I love VW. The positivity in the comments section is almost unlike anywhere else on RUclips. Says a lot about you fans ❤️
Not really
Just got back into yall recently and you go and drop this, lovin it dudes
A song longer than 2 min hallelujah
ive waited 5 years for this to happen and im 0% unsatisfied . such fresh but still familiar sounds, so hype for fotb
The opening chords made me tear up. Very first album. This band means so much to me
Album of the year 2019 🔥
The mitochondria isnt the powerhouse of the cell.
I am.
YAY YOU'RE BACK!!! 💓💓💓 I missed this tunes!
HOLIDAY VIBES!
Perfect! Maybe my favorite one yet.
I was in the car, and I heard this on our local alternative station and I swear I jumped out of my seat 😂 This song is absolute perfection. That bassline tho 👌🏽
This is one of my favourite VW songs. Easily. Keep going, guys, this is incredible music.
Holy crap this is awesome!!!
I got to see Bob Dylan and Paul Simon perform in the Dallas Amphitheater in 1999. I was seventeen, but I bought tickets for my parents and my kid sister Ms. Mary Sutton, and we all had a blast.
I wish my Mom haden't been such a stinge with the weed, lol.
Reminds me of Paul Heaton and beautiful south
You're right! Exactly! Thanks!
definitely vampire weekend vibeee!!!!!
I just saw this awful video where this guy washed his hands and, like, intentionally soaked the cuffs of his hoodie's sleeves with water and this is exactly the kind of thing I needed to cheer me up.
t s ó l a r i a I’m secondhand shuddering thinking about those hoodie sleeves 😖
ruclips.net/video/dDrgzRANWY0/видео.html Your welcome
Ariana grande washing her hands
hhhhh I hate that
Did we watch the same video?
This song now is my life!!!
everyone: Vampire Weekend’s new release!
me: VAMPIRE WEEKEND AND CELL BIO! MAKES MY DAY MAN
After listening to this song about 20 times... this is one of the best song of all time.
being a biologist I just love this way too much
The earth is flat
@@jonathanelliott4690 it is not
@@alessandrapafumi8884 Ain't not Globe earth bruh..... Facts!!!!
@@jonathanelliott4690 ok what the fuck does that have to do with biology....
Flat Earther stupidity gives me the brain farts.
Jonathan Elliott Could you do me a favour? Please sail to the edge,have a peer over and tell me what you see underneath,then communicate back. Ta very.
Summer vibes 🙌🌞in april
Modest Mouse, The National, Mac DeMarco and Vampire Weekend in the same week, i couldn't be more happy
Lucky basta'd. Have fun!
King Gizzard last week as well
Killin it son!
I live in the wrong part of the world
@@zekedimblebee meh
Miracle Workers brought me here. I love this song's vibe!!
never knew i needed ezra koenig and danielle haim to sing together until now
What a blessed little box of truth these cats were given for our enrichment.
Love it! Do distinctive of vampire weekend.
I'm totally speechless, this amazing music of vampire and its acompanyed videos are something tremendous!!
This is such a wedding song-except for the cheating part lmao
Well you've been cheating on me but i've been cheating through this life and all its suffering
Whether it’s about a relationship or not you can’t play this at a wedding without your guests being really confused at the chorus lol
Evangelionlovr correct. The brilliance of this song comes from the bright uplifting pop feel with the contrast of life and suffering in its lyrics and cheating on the virtues of life to escape from suffering, in whatever form that may be.
I feel like that contradiction perfectly embodies the feel of the song and even the whole album.
This is, as the kids say, a bop.
*Lyrics:*
Baby, I know pain is as natural as the rain
I just thought it didn't rain in California
Baby, I know love isn't what I thought it was
Cause I've never known a love like this before ya
Baby, I know dreams tend to crumble at extremes
I just thought our dream would last a little bit longer
There's a time when every man draws a line down in the sand
We're surviving, we're still living, all stronger
You've been cheating on, cheating on me
I've been cheating on, cheating on you
You've bean cheating on me
But I've been cheating through this life, and all its suffering
Oh Christ! Am I good for nothing
Baby, I know hate is always waiting at the gate
I just thought we locked the gate when we left in the morning
And I was told that war is how we landed on these shores
I just thought the drums would all be loud warnings
You've been cheating on, cheating on me
I've been cheating on, cheating on you
You've bean cheating on me
But I've been cheating through this life, and all its suffering
Oh Christ! Am I good for nothing
Baby, I know death probably hasn't happened yet
Cause I don't remember living life before this
Darling, our disease is the same one as the trees
Unaware that they've been living in a forest
You've been cheating on cheating on me
I've been cheating on cheating on you
You've bean cheating on me
But I've been cheating through this life and all its suffering
Oh Christ! Am I good for nothing
This life, and all its suffering
🤙🤙🤙
you're awesommmeee♥️
I think it's "am I good for nothing"
@@rosianna Oof, you're absolutely correct. Fixed!
*The drums of war beat louder warnings
Ezra is one of the best lyricist of this generation
Played this song a lot while pregnant with my daughter. Now she's 2 months old and smiles every time I play it
Amei essa música e o video 😍😍😊
Thank u for curing my depression these past couple months