A 2018 MGMT song that surged from late 2020 as the standard bed for a certain kind of video edit — remixed and sampled under montages about politics, social justice, war and history, usually cut fast and graded dark. The record's entry for the backing track of the historical edit.
Logged across an evening in 2023: the same eight bars under a documentary clip, a military parade, a school project and an advert for protein powder, in that order.
The edits are not using the released single. Most are using pitched or sped-up remixes, which is why the version people can hum is not the version on the album.
The song does not argue anything. It supplies momentum and a mood, and whatever footage is cut to it inherits a sense of significance it may not have earned.
What does it mean? Write it the way you would say it out loud.
