Super Cool (song)
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| "Super Cool" | ||||
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| Single by They Might Be Giants | ||||
| from the album Book | ||||
| Released | September 21, 2021 | |||
| Genre | Alternative rock | |||
| Length | 2:11 | |||
| Label | Idlewild | |||
| They Might Be Giants singles chronology | ||||
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"Super Cool" is a song by alternative rock band They Might Be Giants. The single was released on September 21, 2021, and featured four new tracks.[1]
Production and release
[edit]The single was released two months before their album Book, which features all four songs on the single.
On October 12, 2021, almost one month before the "Super Cool" single, They Might Be Giants released another single "Part of You Wants to Believe Me", which features all four songs on "Super Cool" plus a new song with the same name as the single.
John Flansburgh discussed the song at length in a 2021 interview.[2]
Super Cool is kind of a sentimental song. It's really about falling in love, and then going back to the place that you fell in love. I guess more specifically - one of the things that happens to people is that when they're falling in love, they find themselves doing things that they normally would never do, except in the circumstance of falling in love. And how much those unique experiences fold into one another. I'm just sort of experimenting with a couple of different, very disparate musical styles. There's this kind of one-chord thing in the breaks, that, in a way, is a hat tip to a Beatle-esque version of exotica. It's not based on any scale or any musical impulse that's authentic. [...] The actual meat of the song is this kind of vague Latin thing. Maybe it's not so vague. It does the kind of minor/major thing that a lot of Latin songs do very successfully. So I think I was taking a bit of that approach, and pulling it into our universe. That's pretty unusual terrain for us, but it came out really nice. The band sounds really great on it.
John Flansburgh, IHeartRadio podcast, 2021
The song "I Lost Thursday" is a song relating to the COVID-19 pandemic. with member John Flansburgh saying in a 2021 interview with Gothamist,[3] "I Lost Thursday seemed like a personal song in a way, but obviously it's a kind of a universal sentiment in the era of the pandemic. But in some ways I feel like I could have written the song at any time."[4]
Reception
[edit]Writing for PopMatters, Chris Cottan felt that the song did not live up to its name, saying that the song title is the complete opposite of the song's tone.[5]
Track listing
[edit]All tracks are written by They Might Be Giants.
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Super Cool" | 2:11 |
| 2. | "I Can't Remember the Dream" | 3:12 |
| 3. | "I Broke My Own Rule" | 3:22 |
| 4. | "I Lost Thursday" | 3:14 |
| Total length: | 12:01 | |
Personnel
[edit]They Might Be Giants
- John Linnell – vocals, accordion
- John Flansburgh – vocals, guitar
- Danny Weinkauf – bass, keyboard
- Marty Beller – drums
References
[edit]- ^ "They Might Be Giants drop new single 'Super Cool' from forthcoming new album Book!". Soundsphere.
- ^ "They Might Be Giants: "BOOK" commentary". Spreaker.
- ^ "Interview: John Flansburgh On 40 Years Of They Might Be Giants – Gothamist". December 4, 2021. Archived from the original on December 4, 2021. Retrieved September 11, 2024.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ "I Lost Thursday - TMBW: The They Might Be Giants Knowledge Base". tmbw.net. Retrieved September 11, 2024.
- ^ "They Might Be Giants: Book (Album Review)". www.popmatters.com. November 17, 2021. Retrieved September 12, 2024.